Flowers, D. W. 1834-1905

FLOWERS, MYERS, CONN, BOYD

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 11/19/2004 at 12:24:17

Died, after an illness of six weeks at Cedar Rapids, April 9, 1905, D. W. Flowers aged seventy-five years and seven months.

Mr. Flowers was born in Green County, Pennsylvania, in 1834 and lived there till about the year 1853 when he removed to Ohio, and some years later removed to Iowa County, Iowa, where in 1859 he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Myers. Four years after he removed with his family to this city where they have since resided. Many of these years their residence was on Farmer Street, but during the last eight years he and his wife have made their home with their daughter and her husband, Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Boyd.

Mr. Flowers was at one time engaged in the grocery business on the north side of the square. He was for many years a prominent politician serving as county chairman of the Democratic Party, and during Cleveland’s first administration was Newton postmaster.

For the past two years he has had Bright’s disease and has been a great sufferer, but about the first of the year he and his wife went to Cedar Rapids for an extended visit with Mrs. Flower’s sister, Mrs. Robert Conn and family, and it was at this home he was stricken with paralysis six weeks ago. Since that time he has been a great sufferer and there has not been a day but that the friends knew it might be the last. His wife and two daughters, Mrs. C. E. Boyd and Mrs. Emma Dobie, were with him all these weeks giving him every care and attention that it was possible to bestow.

Mr. Flowers was a member of the Christian Church of Newton, having joined forty years ago, and he has always lived the life of a Christian in all relations of life filled the requirements of a good citizen.

The funeral was held at the Christian Church this afternoon at 2:00, the pastor, Rev. E. F. Leake, officiating. Music was furnished by Mesdames E. S. Smith, Lambert Hall, Wm. Boatsma, Eli Kelley, E. F. Leake and Messrs. J. W. Watson, Claud Daly, Eli Ogg and Richard Daly, with Mrs. Will Reeves as accompanist. The six deacons of the Christian Church acted as pallbearers: J. W. Watson, A. P. Green, Richard Daly, Lambert Hall, Joshua Crawford and E. C. Smith. ~ The Newton Daily News, Wednesday, April 12, 1905, Page 1, Column 3