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Hiram Usher

USHER

Posted By: Carrie Robertson (email)
Date: 2/23/2017 at 22:54:44

Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette Thursday December 3, 1896
LIFE'S CLOSE
It was The Gazette'S sad duty on Wednesday last to chronicle the departure from life's arena of Hiram Usher, one of the best known pioneers of Linn county, who died on the morning of that day.
The funeral services were held Friday afternoon from the Cline school house in Clinton township, Rev. E. B. ? of Zion Evangelical church officiating, assisted by Rev. Lang of the United Evangelical church. The interment was at Usher's cemetery.
Considering the severity of the weather a very large concourse of old friends of the Usher family was present to pay homage to the memory of one beloved by all and against whom no word has ever been {??}
Hiram Usher was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1833. It was six years after Ed. M. Crow, Linn county's first white resident settled upon the banks of the Wapsie, that Mr. Usher came to Linn county. He was then only 16 years old, but was strong physically, determined in purpose and possessed of that rugged strength of character peculiar in our early settlers. Iowa was then a newly organized territory. In 846, the year in which our state was admitted to the union, Mr. Usher was married to Miss Lucinda Williams, the daughter of another pioneer. To them have been born five children, H.B. Usher, Mrs. Lucinda Wilsie, Mrs. Gladys ??, of this county; Mrs. Lydia Countryman of ?? Creek Iowa, and Mrs. Ada ?? of M?ville, Iowa. The wife and mother also survives and enjoys a remarkable degree of health considering her advanced age.
Mr. Usher was for many years a member of and active in the Evangelical church. His reputation for charity and benevolence is as wide as the circle of his acquaintances. It is said that the Usher home was always open to the needy and unfortunate, in whom the deceased and the estimable wife ministered as to their own.
On the 10th of May of the present year Mr. and Mrs. Usher celebrated their golden wedding, all of their children and nearly all of their twenty-five grand children and thirty-eight great grand children being present.
In the death of Mr. Usher Linn county has lost one of the staunchest and most progressive citizens and the people of Clinton township a neighbor whose insights have never been confined in the narrow, ? of self; whose memory shall ever be sacred and who will be sadly missed from the daily paths of life.

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