Booth, Moses 1817 – 1896

BOOTH, JOHNSON, MITCHELL, CHRISTENSON, JENKS, MOREY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:23

Iowa Plain Dealer July 7, 1896, FP, C5

Tuesday afternoon, the townspeople were startled by the announcement that M. Booth was dying, and the sadness of the fact was accentuated by the remembrance of the sudden death of his wife, recently. For several days he had been ailing with some disorder of the stomach and a severe attack of asthma, but no particular thought was given the matter and no physician was called till 11 a. m., on Thursday, but about 4:30 p. m., the physicians in attendance pronounced the final dissolution at hand and on the forenoon following, Friday, July 2, at about 9 o’clock, he peacefully passed away, surrounded by several of his sons and daughters who had been summoned to his bedside as soon as the approach of death was detected.
Moses Booth was born in Lancastershlre, England, Jan. 8, 1817, and was consequently, nearly eighty years of age. At the age of 12 he came to this country with his parents and lived in western New York, where, in 1841, at Westfield, he was married to Louisa Johnson, whose death we recorded two weeks ago. Ho was one of the pioneer settlors of this county, in 1850 pre-empting on the farm in New Oregon township, which they occupied till moving to Cresco and, which is now farmed by a son, John W. Booth.
The funeral services were held at his home Saturday afternoon following his death, the services being conducted by Rev. Ridlington. All the living children of the deceased were present save one sister, living in western South Dakota. Those present were the six sons, Henry, of Rich Hill, Mo.; I. J. and J. W., of Cresco; Frank and Fred, of Alden, Minn.; and C. E., of Minneapolis; it being the first time that the six brothers have ever been all together, the elder ones leaving home before the younger were born. Also four daughters, Mrs. Alice Mitchell, of Cresco, Mrs. Christenson, of Fulda, Minn.; and Mesdames Jenks and Morey, of Alden, Minn.; the latter having not yet returned to her home since her mother’s death. There were also present, Mr. Jenks and Mrs. Frank Booth. The remains were interred in Oak Lawn beside those of his wife who preceded him in death only fifteen days.
Though the pain of separation is hard for the children to bear, yet it seems the work of “He who knoweth best” to thus shorten the separation of the two who through a long, happy and well spent life had been almost inseparable. Only a few days before his death he said that he was so lonesome, for Ma, as he always called his wife, was never away from him more than a week or so.
The relatives have the sympathy of all in their sad bereavements, but are consoled by the fact that their parents, respected and revered by friends and neighbors, and spared them by a loving God to a good old age, have at last gone to their final reward.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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