Rinehart, Charles – 1847-1935

BUCKLEY, DUNLAP, HENDERSHOT, HUNT, MEREDITH, METZ, RINEHART, WIGGINS

Posted By: Donna Sloan Rempp (email)
Date: 8/10/2016 at 10:57:44

Rinehart Rites held Wednesday
Was Resident of Monroe Several Years Ago
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the R. B. Hendershot home with the Rev. Raoul Moser officiating. Burial was in the Monroe Cemetery.
Charles Rinehart was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1847; and departed this life at the Lutheran Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa, Monday evening, November 18, 1935. Most of his life Mr. Rinehart had been a man of rugged health and strength. It was only during the last few months that the penalties of advanced age were being demanded of him in terms of failing health and sickness.
At the age of three years, Mr. Rinehart made a most eventful trip with his parents in a covered wagon from his native state of Pennsylvania to the Commonwealth of Ohio where he spent the next fourteen years of his life. In 1864 he came to Iowa, locating at Marysville in Marion County. Later he lived for a time in Fairfield, Knoxville and Pella before coming to Monroe in 1890. He lived in Monroe for 22 years. In 1912 he moved to Connecticut where he spent the next 20 years, again returning to Monroe in 1932.
Mr. Rinehart was married to Miss Clara Metz of Marysville in 1868. Six children were born of this union, all of whom grew to manhood and woman’s estate. They are Mrs. Harry Hunt of Niantic, Conn.; P. E. Rinehart of Denver, Colorado; Mrs. R. B. Hendershot of Monroe, Iowa; Mrs. J. N. Dunlap of Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Mrs. John Buckley of Prairie City, Iowa; and Mrs. May Wiggins of New London, Conn. There are also six grandchildren and three great grandchildren that survive; also a brother, D. M. Rinehart of Canto, Ohio and a sister Mrs. Benj. Meredith of Fairfield, Iowa. Mrs. Rinehart preceded her husband into the unknown realities of life, beyond that border that we call death in 1923.
Mr. Rinehart spent his active life as a miller. He proved himself worthy of his callings and contributed a well-spent life to his generation. Early in life Mr. Rinehart became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He honored this membership with multiplied activities, all of which were rendered for the good of his fellowmen. In the Monroe Methodist church he served as Church School teacher and superintendent. He also sang in the choir and served in any and every way that he could for the enlargement of the Kingdom of God.
Mr. Rinehart was a man of strong convictions; clear of vision, zealous, frank, candid, and honest. He despised sham and hypocrisy. His life proved that what a man was is larger than what he did, for this reason that the one is but the product of the other. In death a peace unspeakable settled on his face; it all appeared as if he had gone just to meet a friend.
Source: Newspaper Unknown; __ November 1935