William L. Clapp

CLAPP, PHIPPS, SKINNER, HENRY, MORGAN, CHASE, SHIPLEY, GARTEN, RODRICK

Posted By: Lucille Morton (email)
Date: 3/16/2003 at 22:37:56

W.L. Clapp Called
Civil War Veteran Succumbs After Long Illness With Heart Trouble

William L. Clapp was born at Seipio, Indiana. March 30, 1841, and died at his home in this city March 25, 1928, aged 85 years, 11 months and 25 days. He had been ill for sometime with heart trouble, but death was due to paralysis. In the days of his early childhood he came with his parents to Iowa and has since seen this state advance from donditions which were extremely pioneer and frontier to its present state of settlement and imporvements. On Nov. 22, 1866 he was united in marriage with Nancy Skinner, who departed this life April 26, 1916.

Mr. Clapp heard the call of his country in the time of its need and in 1863 enlisted as a private in Company I, 8th Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Cavalry and was honorably discharged August 15, 1865.

He is survied by six sisters, as follows: Mrs. Martha Henry, Corydon, Iowa: Mr. Alice Morgan, Cambria, Iowa; Mrs. Samantha Chase, Post Falls, Idaho; Mrs. Ellen Shipley, Brock, Nebraska; Mrs. Emma Garten, Frederick, Oklahoma; Mrs. Minnie Rodrick, Hunieston, Iowa. Four of these namely, Mesdames, Morgan, Henry, Garten and Rodruck were present at the funeral. Mr. Clapp remembered his Creator in the days of his yourth made a profession of his faith in Jesus Christ as his Savior, uniting with the Presbyterian Church and had been identifed with it ever since. He was a good man and friend and neighbor kin and true, a loyal soldier not only in Grand Army of the Republic, but in the Grand Army of the Redeemed. But his work is done, the conflict is past, the victory's won and taps have been sounded.
"Servant of God, well done

Rest from they loved employ ;
The battle fought, the victory won,

Enter the master's joy.
The pains of death are past.

Labor and sorrow cease.
And life's long wadge closed at last,

Thy soul is bound for peace."

Funeral services conducted by his pastor J. I. Dool, were held at the First Presbyterian church on Tuesday forenoon at ten o'clock, followed by internment at Chariton Cemetery by the side of his wife.

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