Holtz, John Samuel 1838-1924

HOLTZ, RICHMOND, LLOYD, CLARK, SHRIDER, GEARHART

Posted By: J Holtz (email)
Date: 5/9/2004 at 22:58:07

John Samuel Holtz, civil war veteran and well-known citizen of Newton, died at 6 o’clock February 21, after an illness of but a few days. Mr. Holtz suffered for two days with pneumonia, although physicians believe the immediate cause of death to have been a hemorrhage.

John Samuel Holtz was born near Morristown, Ohio, October 14, 1838. In the fall of 1861 he volunteered in the Union army and served until the close of the war in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, company K.

Coming with his brother, Otho, to Iowa, he settled near Baxter in 1865. The following year he married Cordia Jane Richmond, to whom was born seven children. Mrs. Holtz died in 1902. Two years after her death he married Ava R. Lloyd who lived until 1914.

The greater part of his life was spent in Jasper county, with the exception of seven years in Adair county and six years in Hay Springs, Nebraska. Mr. Holtz was united in marriage to Mrs. Eliza Clark on March 16, 1916 with whom much happiness has been derived. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and have attended the revival services in northeast Newton of recent months.

He leaves besides his widow his children, Albert Holtz of Ira; William Holtz of Gillett, Wyoming; Elva Florence Shrider, of Zanesville, Ohio; James Bayard Holtz of Des Moines; Lou Beryl Gearhart of Ira; his brothers, Dr. Otho Holtz, of Missouri and Dr. James M. Holtz of Etna, Pennsylvania, and his sisters , Mrs. Carolyn Bowles, of Ohio and Mrs. Mary E. Hood, of Cambridge, Ohio. He was preceeded in death by his daughters, Sarah Ellen and Effie Luvisa.

Burial was made Sunday in Independence Cemetery.