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Elkanah Joseph Spurgin (1931)

COX, DOWLER, ELLIS, HARRELL, IRWIN, NEIDT, SPURGIN

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 5/23/2006 at 19:48:57

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 9, 1931
Page 1, Column 5

LAST RITES HELD - JOSEPH SPURGIN

Joseph Spurgin, 78, one one of the well known men of the county, died Friday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Neidt, who lives in the Ebenezer neighborhood. Mr. Spurgin had been in ill health several years and death was due to heart trouble.

Mrs. Neidt, another daughter, Mrs. Phillip Irvin of New Virginia; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Harrell of Winterset and Mrs. Ella Ellis of Afton, survive as does a brother, Sinclair Spurgin, of Caldwell, Idaho. Charles Spurgin, county clerk, is a nephew.

Funeral services were held Sunday at the Methodist church in Peru; burial was in the Peru cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 17, 1931
Page 3

MORTUARY - E. J. Spurgin

Elkanah Joseph Spurgin was born near Indianola in Warren county, Iowa, September 28, 1853. He moved with his parents to Madison county, Iowa, when but a small boy. He lived in Madison county all his life excepting ten years, which were spent in Montana. Part of this time he was with his brother, Dave, who later went to Alaska. At another time for about eight years, he lived in the northern part of Clarke county.

In 1891, soon after returning to Iowa, he was united in marriage to Mary Frances Cox. To this union were born five children: three sons and two daughters.

He united with the Methodist Protestant church at Union and was a member there until after moving to Truro. He then united with the Truro Christian church.

He has been a member of the Masonic lodge for over fifty years.

His first membership was in Evening Star lodge No. 43, at Winterset. Later he moved his membership to Lewistown, Montana and helped to organize the Masonic lodge there.

After returning to Madison county, Iowa, he again moved his membership back to Winterset lodge No. 43.

Later, after moving to Truro, he moved his membership to Ivy lodge No. 483. Last January, through the Ivy lodge, he received his fifty year certificate from the Grand Lodge of Iowa.

He departed this life about 1:30 Friday morning, December 4, 1931, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Neidt, following several months of failing health.

The three sons died in infancy and Mrs. Spurgin passed away September 13, 1927. The two daughters: Mrs. Edith Neidt of Truro and Mrs. Agnes Irwin of New Virginia; a foster son, Curtis Dowler of Kirksville, Missouri; two sons-in-law, Frank Neidt and Philip Irwin; four grandchildren: Cleona, LaVerne, Joe and Mary Evelyn Neidt; two sisters: Mrs. Ella Ellis of Afton and Mrs. J. S. Harrell of Peru; a brother, Sinclair Spurgin of Caldwell, Idaho, with a large circle of other relatives and friends remain to cherish his memory.

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