Woods Bradshaw Callison (1925)
BABBIT, BOND, CALLISON, SEILER
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/22/2006 at 17:03:36
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 22, 1925WOODS CALLISON Death
Woods Callison, one of the long time residents of Lincoln township, died at his home five miles southwest of Winterset, on last Saturday, at the age of 87. Mr. Callison, who was born in Illinois, came to this county 41 years ago. He was rated as one of the successful men of his community, and possessed one of the finest farms in Madison County. He was a man who took but little interest in public affairs, but was highly respected and esteemed in his home community.
Funeral services were held at the home on Monday and burial made in the Clark cemetery.
Members of his family are five sons: Wilbur of Kansas, Alfred, Emory, James, Clayton; and one daughter, Mrs. John Seiler, all of whom reside in this county.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 29, 1925
Page 5, Columns 3,4 & 5Woods Bradshaw Callison
Woods Bradshaw Callison, the son of Isaac and Hulda Callison, was born in Vermillion county, Illinois, April 10, 1838, and died at his home in Madison county, April 18, 1925, aged 87 years, 8 days.
He was married to Delila A. Babbit March 5, 1867. She died October 10, 1911. To this union was born five sons and two daughters: Alpha W., of Earlham; James I., William Clayton, Emory B., Of Winterset; Cyrus Wilford, of Howard, Kansas; Mary S., who died in infancy and Nellie G. Seiler, of Winterset. Besides these six living children he leaves fourteen grandchildren and one sister, Minda Bond of Abington, Illinois.
He enlisted as a volunteer the Civil War in Co. G. 50th regiment, Illinois infantry. After his marriage he lived in Fulton county, Illinois until March 1884 when he moved to the farm south of Winterset on which he lived until his death.
He has been a member of the Christian church 47 years. He lived a beautiful life, always ready to lend a hand or give advice for the uplift of humanity. The story of his life is one children would love to tell to their grandchildren. It reveals a history of one whose impressionable mind was sown with seed thought of noble principles which planted in the fertile soil grew and flourished in his young manhood until in mature life ripened into a rich harvest for mankind and for God. There is no nobler monument than that which is raised from a life well spent and “blessed is he of whom they tell he did his work and did it well.”
Funeral services were conducted at his old home on April 20, by Rev. Frederick Cooper, of Truro and his remains were interred in the Clark cemetery. The large farm house was packed with relatives and the yard was full of friends and neighbors at the time of the funeral.
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