James Guinall Huss (1906)

HUSS, MCARTHUR

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 3/21/2006 at 10:23:15

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 14, 1906
Page 1, Column 1

James G. Huss, an old settler of Madison county, living in the northeast part of the city, was taken suddenly ill while working in his garden this morning and passed away in a very short time. His death is supposed to have been caused by apoplexy.

Mr. Huss was past 71 years of age and leaves an aged wife and a number of children.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 21, 1906
Page 1, Column 2

OBITUARY

James G. Huss was born in Sandusky county, Iowa (sic), April 19th, 1835, and died June 14th, 1906, aged seventy-one years, one month and twenty-five days.

He was married to Mary McArthur in 1859 and to this union were born ten children all of whom excepting two with the mother survive him.

In 1867 he moved from Johnson county to Madison county, where he resided until the time of his death.

When a young man he united with the United Brethren church and afterwards joined the Methodist Episcopal church, remaining a member of that church until he united with the Church of Christ in Christian Union at Winterset, where he remained a faithful member until the time of his death; always ready to devote his time to his blessed Lord and his divine cause.

His death was a shock to the entire community and he leaves besides the relatives many friends who will mourn his loss.

The funeral sermon was preached at the Christian Union church by Rev. A. F. Dorrell and the body was laid to rest in the Hooten grave yard.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, June 15, 1906
Page 1, Column 4

JAMES HUSS DEAD

Found Unconscious in the Garden. Death Due to Apoplexy

James Huss, one of the county’s oldest settlers, died from a stroke of apoplexy at eleven o’clock Thursday morning.

Mr. Huss lived in the east part of the city north of the depot and had gone to the garden between eight and nine o’clock to hoe. An hour afterward, a grandson, who lives with him, found him face downward in a potato row. The man was unconscious and had evidently made a desperate struggle to regain his feet as the dirt had been pushed back with his hands. He lived an hour after being carried to the house.

Mr. Huss had passed his seventy-first year. For many years he lived on Middle river below the Hooten school house and was a familiar figure in town. He moved to the city several years ago. He had four children living in the county and two or three elsewhere.
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Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from Iowa Delayed Certificate of Birth for daughter Elva. Sandusky County is in Ohio.

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