Carey, John – 1806-1883

CAREY

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 10/22/2024 at 15:20:28

Died – CAREY – May 14th, 1883, at his home in Sherman township, Mr. John Carey, in the 77th year of his age.
Mr. Carey was born January 6, 1806, in Washington Co., Penn., came to Ohio in 1832, and in 1854 came to Jasper Co.
In early life he united with the M. E. church, and was one of their most active working members. Being from his very make-up an ardent lover of freedom, when the Protestant Methodist seceded from the old church, Mr. Carey naturally identified himself with that movement.
He was one of the first to espouse the cause of the American slave. He was President of the first anti-slavery society organized in Gurnsey county, Ohio. In that cause that tried men’s courage and moral principles, he labored and suffered in common with others, until under the force of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, he saw the fetters fall from the limbs of the last slave, and under the power of the American government raised to the dignity and privileges of a freeman.
Mr. Carey was an earnest opposer of all secret oath-bound societies, believing them to be a dangerous element in a free government.
He was also a firm believer and earnest advocate of the obligations and sacredness of the Christian Sabbath.
Mr. Carey, like all other men, had his weaknesses, and his faults, too, but notwithstanding, he was ever true to the principles of right and justice; and it may be truly said of hi that no man ever knew John Carey to be on the wrong side of any great moral question effecting the interest of humanity. His race is run, and we trust his end was peace.
Source: The Newton (IA) Journal; Wednesday, June 13, 1883, page 2