Commodore Perry Cline (1916)

BILZ, CLINE, EPPARD, TRAPP, WEAVER, WILLIAMSON

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/1/2007 at 19:26:11

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 4, 1916

C. P. Cline was born in Douglas township on the 3rd of November 1854 and a son of Frederick and Mary (Williamson) Cline. In 1854 they came to Madison county and entered land in Jackson township, the father devoting the balance of his life to farming here.

C. P. Cline was reared in Jackson township, where he attended the public schools and thus prepared himself to take an intelligent part in the life of his community. After his father's demise he assumed charge of the home place, which he cultivated until 1889. In that year he removed to Penn township and purchased two hundred and eighty-four acres of land on sections 3, 4, and 9.

On the 25th of March 1892, Mr. Cline was married to Miss Laura Eppard, a daughter of J. A. and Jane (Weaver) Eppard.

Mr. and Mrs. Cline were the parents of four children: Pearl, the wife of Emanuel Bilz, who is conducting the Iowa Hotel of Des Moines; Ruth, now Mrs. Glenn Trapp of Des Moines; Fred, who died when two years of age; and Blanche, who passed away in 1893 when but seven months old.

The body of Mr. Cline laid in state at the Walters' Undertaking Parlors in Earlham from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sunday and was viewed by many. At 2:00 o'clock occurred the funeral services at Penn Center Church, when a gathering of unprecedented size was present to pay this tribute to their departed neighbor and friend. The Penn Center community was represented almost in its entirety and three times as many people were present without the church as it was able to accommodate within its doors. Rev. Clarence Eppard, pastor of the Early Chapel Christian Church conducted the services, Mr. Cline having been inclined toward the Christian denomination in his church going. Interment was made in the Penn Center cemetery, these services being conducted by the Oddfellow fraternity, of which the deceased was a member.

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