Mershon, Dr. E. H. 1852-1898

MERSHON, RICHARDS, GREEN, MUNN

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Date: 5/8/2005 at 19:02:58

The Newton Record Thursday, January 13, 1898
Death of Dr. E. H. Mershon Sunday Morning Jan. 9th
A Good Man Has Gone to His Reward.

Mershon, Dr. E. H.

Another Jasper County’s pioneer citizens has passed over to the great beyond. On Sunday morning, January 9th, just as the benediction was being pronounced in the various churches the immortal part of Dr. E. H. Mershon took leave of a long suffering, emaciated earthly tabernacle and entered “a house not made with hands, eternal in heaven.”

For nearly forty-three years Dr. Mershon has been a resident of Jasper County, and identified with its growth and improvement during all the years since. He was a man of unsullied reputation, and of the strictest integrity, whose honor was never questioned.

He was born in Kentucky, but much of his early life was spent in Ohio, May 20, 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Richards, in Kentucky. They came to Newton in June 1855, where he was a successful practitioner of medicine for many years, until he moved to his large farm eight miles northeast of town in 1870. The Doctor retired from farm life and came again to Newton in 1894, to take a long needed rest from toil. He leaves a widow and four children ­ Mrs. Anna Green of Des Moines, Mrs. Mary Munn, and Cyrus and Warder Mershon of this county to mourn a kind and loving husband and father, four sons having preceded him. He lacked but one day of being seventy years and five months of age at time of his death. Of his father’s large family only two now remain ­ a sister in Chicago, and Jas. R. Mershon of this city.

He had been a faithful and worthy member of the Christian Church from his early manhood. About eight years ago he suffered from a serious attack of la grippe, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. For the past six weeks he has been confined to his home, a patient sufferer, gradually failing and fully realizing that the end was drawing near. His life’s work was done, and so well that no further preparation was necessary to meet the Great Judge. He was conscious to the last moment, and passes away as if sinking into a quiet peaceful slumber.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church at 11 o’clock, Tuesday, conducted by Mr. Mershon’s old pastor, Rev. Hickey of Des Moines. There were a large number of sorrowing friends present to pay the last sad tribute of respect to one whom they had loved and honored during long years of acquaintance.

Originally submitted on Mon Sep 2 10:51:18 2002