Abraham Strecher Yohe

YOHE, PERRY

Posted By: Marie Salisbury (email)
Date: 11/25/2011 at 15:56:41

Obituary: Morning Sun News Herald Morning Sun, Iowa Thursday, March 21, 1912 page 4

Another Old Pioneer Passes to His Reward

Abraham S. Yohe died at the residence
of his son, P. A. Yohe, in this
city at 12:30 o'clock, Tuesday, March
12.
The funeral services were held at
the First Presbyterian church on
Thursday afternoon; conducted by
Rev. A. E. Cameron, assisted by
Dr. C. D. Trumbull and the choir of
the church. The interment was in
Elmwood cemetery.
Abraham S. Yohe was born in
Washington county, Pennsylvania,
June 6, 1827, and was, therefore, at
he time of his death 85 years, 9
months and six days old. The text
selected for the funeral sermon was
chosen with strict propriety from
Genesis 25:8: "Then Abraham gave
up the ghost, and died in a good old
age, an old man, and full of years;
and was gathered to his people."
The deceased learned the trade of
carriage-builder and wagon-maker
in his native state, and labored at
this trade during the years of young
manhood. And in later life he found
real pleasure in testing his skill as
a mechanician in various lines.
In 1849 he was united in marriage
to Glovinia Perry, near Elizabethtown,
Pennsylvania. Born to this
union were seven children. One
died in childhood, and six survive,
three sons and three daughters, who
mourn the loss of a devoted father.
Mrs. Yohe preceded her husband in
death by ten years.
Mr. Yohe removed to Iowa in 1861.
His first residence was in De
Moines county, near West Burlington,
where he remained for nine
months. In 1862 he removed to the
homestead southwest of this city,
where he continued to reside until
recent years when he made his home
with his son, J. C. E. Yohe, on the
farm adjoining. Last November he
came to town, and has since been
making his home with his son, P.
A. Yohe, where everything possible
has been done to make his last days
comfortable. His end was peacefull
in the extreme. He had been gradually
declining in health, and on last
Tuesday the silver cord was finally
loosed. In him we have a concrete
illustration of God's promise to the
righteous: "With long life will I
satisfy him, and show him my
salvation." The testimony of all
without reservation, is that our
community has suffered the loss of
an honorable citizen, and a good
man, honest in all the complex re-
lations of life. He was an exem-
plary Christian man. He rests from
his labors, and his works follow
him. He lives through his six chil
dren, his twenty-four grand-children
and his ten great-grand-children.