Samuel Alger
ALGER, ROBERTS, ESTIN
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Date: 4/7/2006 at 22:11:15
Winterset Madisonian and Chronicle, April 28, 1887, Pg 4
Winterset, IowaObituary
Died-April 3d, 1887, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. W. Roberts, in Lee township, Samuel Alger, aged 88 years, 6 months and 9 days.
He was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, September 24th, 1799. In April, 1822, he was married to Joanna Estin and moved to Oxford, Mass., the same year. In 1875 they came to Iowa. They united with the M. E. church in 1842. He was a true Christian, and since the death of his aged companion two years ago he had longed to go too. Many times during his last illness he spoke of his home on the other shore and of his assurace of peace and rest there. He leaves three children-two sons in Massachusetts and his daughter in Iowa.
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