Middlebrook, John 1830 – 1910

MIDDLEBROOK, HAWLEY, SIRRINE, WOODMANSEE, JOHNSON

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

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 25, 1910, LP, C3

OBITUARY.
John Middlebrook, fifth son of Dr. Stephen Middlebrook and Melissa Hawley, was born the 7th day of December, 1830, at Trumbull, Fairfield County, Conn. He was married on May 14, 1854, to Fannie E. Sirrine, and together they emigrated to the West and settled on a homestead in the northern part of Winneshiek County where they resided for many years, and where their four children were born.
When the call for soldiers came from the Government in 1861, Mr. Middlebrook nobly responded and joined the Third Regiment of the 6th Iowa Cavalry, under Capt. Theodore Burdick. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and returned home. About 1876 the family removed to Chester, Iowa, where they remained many years. Then after their children were educated and settled in homes of their own, the parents removed to Cresco, where for the last ten years they have lived, enjoying a well earned rest, surrounded by many relatives and friends, with every comfort this life can afford, till several months ago Mr. Middlebrook’s health failed and death has come "to claim his own."
He died on the morning of the 17th of February, 1910, and is survived by three daughters: Mrs. Julia Johnson, of Chester, Mrs. Emma Woodmansee, of Denver. Colo., Mrs. Luella Woodmansee, of Arkansas, and one son Arthur Middlebrook, of North Dakota, and the aged mother who has traveled life’s journey side by side with her loving husband nearly 56 years, sharing life's joys and sorrows, sunshine and shadows, and now for a few short years to say "good bye.”
Funeral services conducted by Revs. Gammons and Hinman were held at the house Saturday afternoon. Interment in Oak Lawn.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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