M. H. Pierce (1819-1889)

PIERCE, HUGHES, PULVER, HALL, LESTER

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 9/17/2009 at 20:37:45

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, October 10, 1889.

DIED-

PIERCE-At his home in Fairfield, Tuesday, October 1st, at six o’clock a.m., 1889, of heart disease, M. H. Pierce, aged 70 years, 7 months and 10 days.

M. H. Pierce was born Feb. 20th, 1819, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; moved to Genesee County, New York, when 9 years old; to Sanduskey, Ohio, when 16; when 20 began a series of travels in the Southern and then Western states; at 25 settled down to farming in Montgomery County, Indiana; in 1855 removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa; in 1866 removed to the farm in Fairfield Township, Jackson County, Iowa, where he has since lived. He married Martha Hughes of Montgomery County, Indiana in 1844, and had five children, four of whom are still living-Joseph G., George D., William B., and Martha Mae. He married his second wife, S. A. Pulver, in Jackson County, Jan. 12, 1864. They have two children, Lester C. and Grace.

Deceased has been in poor health for nineteen months, and for the past eight months had been failing so gradually that weeks instead of days had to be compared to notice the change. His naturally social disposition remained unchanged until about two months ago, but since that time there was little but a mere greeting for his appreciated friends. Never did company prove a more valuable auxiliary to medicine than with Mr. Pierce. The funeral occurred on Thursday at his late home and the remains followed by a long funeral train, were conveyed to Maquoketa and interred in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

He was a most estimable citizen, a good man of honest convictions, more than ordinary intelligence, always upright with those whom he dealt with, and possessed an enduring friendship for his more intimate acquaintances. Of his family there were present at the funeral J. G. Pierce, of Riverside, Cal.; Geo. D. Pierce of Irwin, Iowa; W. G. Pierce of Shelby, Iowa; Mrs. S. H. Hall of Minneapolis, Lizzie Lester and Grace Pierce.