John Gingery (1919)

GINGERY, HYATT, FINDLEY, CARVER, WILSON, HADLEY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/9/2007 at 20:48:17

Earlham Echo, Earlham, Iowa
March 1919

JOHN GINGERY

John Gingery was born in Holmes County, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1837, and died March 20, 1919.

He grew to manhood in Stark County, Ohio and attended common school, also Greensburg Seminary. Taught school in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Was married April 29, 1866 to Miss Mary A. Hyatt, of Cass Co.,Iowa and took up farming as an occupation

Ten children were born of this union as follows: Four girls, Elsie Findley, Des Moines, Iowa, Nora Carver, Waite Park, Minn., Ruby Wilson, Spokane, Wash., Pearl Hadley, Earlham, Iowa. Six boys: William, Plains, Mont., Jesse, Rocky Ford, Colo., Leslie, Earlham, Iowa, Lew, Rushville, Mo., John, Clearwater, Minn., Grover, with the American Army in France.

He united with the M. E. Church about fourteen years after marriage. Served the public in various capacities, was a charter member of Five Mile Grove M. E. Church, as Chairman of the Board of Trustees, almost continuously during the life of the church.

In 1887 he emigrated to Nebraska and entered a half section of land in Loup County. Returning to Cass County, Iowa, in 1889, he resumed farming near Atlantic.

In 1905 he sold out and moved to Des Moines, bought a farm near Earlham, and resumed farming in 1906. This farm was sold in 1912, and Mr. and Mrs. Gingery moved to Stuart, Iowa, where they lived until in March, 1918, when they quit keeping house in order to live with the children.

Note: Burial was in the Earlham Cemetery.