Sanborn, Lucius 1834 - 1919

SANBORN, BELL, WHITFORD, SMITH, SEARLES, BULLIS, CRAIG

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Date: 12/11/2024 at 11:30:33

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Jan. 24, 1919, P8 C1

Mrs. Whitford and Mrs. Smith of Volga City, came Saturday called by the death of their father L. Sanborn.

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Mrs. Searles of Canton, S. D., and Mrs. Bullis of Cone, came on Monday to attend the funeral of their father, L. Sanborn.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Jan. 31, 1919, P8 C1-2

L Doolittle, who came to attend L. Sanborn’s funeral, returned home on Monday evening.

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Obituary.
Lucius Sanborn was born in Barston, Canada East, June 21, 1834, and died at Lime Springs, Iowa, Jan. 18, 1919.
He was the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Heath Sanborn natives of New Hampshire, of Revolutionary stock, and descendants of very early settlers in Massachusetts. One a prominent minister in Southern New Hampshire, but who came into disfavor with the authorities for his opposition to some of the doctrines, especially that of witchcraft and was deprived of his church living, after which he returned to England where he died at the age of almost one hundred years.
The family of Nathaniel Sanborn emigrated to Wisconsin in 1843 and in 1844 settled on wild land on Rolling Prairie, in the town of Burnett, Dodge county, where on Sept. 15, 1857, Lucius married Mary J. Bell, a native of the sate of New York, and soon after this event they emigrated to Iowa, settling near Lime Springs, where eleven children were born to them, eight of whom with 22 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren survive.
The surviving children are Mrs. Emma Searles of Canton, S. D., Lorenzo H. of Sacramento, Cal., Mrs. Lovira Whitford and Mrs. Ruth Smith of Volga City, Iowa, Lucius E., William A. and John C. of Lime Springs, all of whom except Lorenzo were present at the funeral. Those who preceded him in death were Mrs. Mary E. Craig, Lewis E. and Effie M., who died at the age of three years. The wife and mother passed away Jan. 1, 1911.
The season previous to their coming to the vicinity of Lime Springs, Mr. Sanborn had prepared a home on wild and unimproved land, and during the first few years of their residence here they were deprived of many of the comforts of life and found it uphill work, but by their energy and perseverance after years of toil they began to reap the fruits of their labor, and about 1894, after building a home in the town of Lime Springs, they retired from the hard labor of the farm.
On Sept. 20, 1874, Mr. Sanborn united with the Lime Springs, M. E. church of which he remained a loyal and devoted member until called to the church triumphant on Jan. 18, 1919.
In the passing of this Christian man Lime Springs has lost one of her oldest settlers, a good citizen, kind neighbor and friend, a man who had lived out his more than four score years, one who had lived to see his large family well established in life, and when the death angel called, Mr. Sanborn was ready and glad to go to be forever with the Lord.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G. M. Shoemaker at the home and in the M. E. church on Tuesday afternoon January 22. A quartet composed of A. J. Cray, Lloyd Jones, Tom Price and Roy Vanderbie sang “Nearer My God to Thee,” “Going Down the Valley” and “Saved By Grace.”
The body was laid to rest in Lime Springs cem{e}tery beside the loved ones who had preceded him. The large number who attended the funeral service indicated the high estimation in which Mr. Sanborn was held by those who had known him lo these many years.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Pleasant Hill Cemetery
 

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