Sudlow, Egbert C. 1834-1906

SUDLOW, BARTLETT

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/15/2005 at 13:42:33

Another time has death, that unwelcome visitor, which enters all homes sometime, the death which knows no season, neither youth nor old age, came and gathered home one who was a long time neighbor and friend of many in this city and county.

Egbert C. Sudlow was born on the eighth day of September 1834, in Litchfield County, Con. When a child his parents removed to Ohio, and later in the year 1856, the removed to Scott County, Iowa. In the year 1869 Mr. Sudlow was married to Miss Eliza A. Bartlett and with his wife, soon after his marriage settled in Jasper County, fifteen miles southeast of this city. Here on this farm their children were born and the years spent there until 1895, about eleven years ago, when they removed to Newton and settled in the home where they have lived all the time since and where his death occurred.

His last serious illness covered only a little over a week. He was taken sick on Tuesday, November 29th, but was not confined to his bed until the next Saturday. The following Friday, November 30th, at 10 o’clock he passed away, heart failure being the immediate cause of his death.

The deceased was a tender, true husband and father, and was a man appreciated for the sterling worth of his character. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, having joined the year after he removed to town.

In the year 1881 he was elected to the legislature as senator from this county. He served his first term in the old state house building and the last term in the new state house.

He is survived by his wife and three daughters, Mary, Edith and Alice, and two sons, Harry E. and Fred E. Sudlow of Sherrard, Illinois, who were all with him at the time of his death.

A sister, Miss Phoebe Sudlow, of Davenport, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Henry Sudlow, of Rock Island, did not arrive until after his death. His other sisters, Mrs. Henry Egbert and Miss Lucy Sudlow reside in Davenport but could not be present at the funeral.

The funeral was from the home yesterday afternoon, Rev. O. S. Baker, of the First Methodist Church officiated. The bearers were H. V. Van Epps, George Denniston, W. M. Guessford, Joe Horn, Henry Moore and Frank Hummell. The burial was in the Newton Cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, Monday, December 3, 1906, Page 1, Column 3