Joseph Henry Baldock (1891)

BALDOCK

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 3/9/2006 at 20:33:52

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, February 27, 1891
Page 3

Joe Baldock, an estimable young man of this city, a son of Dr. A. C. Baldock, died Monday forenoon, of that dread disease, consumption. He had been gradually failing for some time, and the end came surely but relentlessly. The funeral services took place Wednesday, conducted by Revs. C. L. Nye and W. L. Stanley.
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Winterset News
Thursday, March 5, 1891
Page 5, Column 2

Obituary

Joseph Henry Baldock, son of Dr. Baldock, of Winterset, died on the 23rd of Feb. at 9:30, of quick consumption following double pneumonia and La grippe. He suffered much and struggled hard to live and only relinquished his claims upon life a few days before he died.

But as his hopes of a longer life here faded his hopes of a bright and peaceful future life grow brighter, and when told a short time before he died that his pulse was nearly gone and that he would soon be in his happy home, he replied with a smile, "I am so glad" and a few minutes later he, with much complacency and self possession, said he was ready to go and a few minutes later passed away without a struggle.

His funeral two days later was attended by a host of friends, among whom were his last class in school and other very estimable classmates from the Patterson school. Six noble young men of his class were his pall bearers, and to these classmates and hundreds of other good friends and neighbors who did all they could and wished to do more for Joe, his parents tender their most sincere thanks and well wishes that they may all have as good a hope to ripen into glad fruition as Joe had in his triumphant death, who was only 20 years, 10 mouths and 21 days old when he died, but had been a professor of religion about 5 years before his death.

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