Joseph William Hoyt (1929)

COON, DANIELS, GILBERT, HANSEN, HOYT, JACKSON, MOORE, TRIPP

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 6/22/2007 at 14:03:12

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 4, 1929
Page 4

Joseph Wm. Hoyt

Joseph Wm. Hoyt, son of Andrew and Julia Gilbert Hoyt was born in Michigan, October 5, 1847. The family moved from Michigan to Jefferson, Iowa when he was a young man. He was there married to Mary Tripp, September 10, 1870. To this union eleven children were born; four died in infancy and three married daughters have preceded their father in death. These are; Mrs. Ida Hansen, Mrs. Julia Daniels and Mrs. Delilah Moore. The children remaining are; Mrs. Stella Jackson of Terrill, Sam Hoyt of St. Joseph, Tennessee; Elizabeth Coon of Houghten, Michigan; Mrs. Anna Daniels of Des Moines; and A. G. Hoyt of Mineral Center, Minnesota.

The greater part of their early married life was spent near Jefferson. But they homesteaded land in Kansas and moved back and forth several times. They were also for a time in Nebraska. Later they moved to Webster and also lived a short time in Missouri before they came to Madison county 32 years ago. Since then their home has been most of the time in this county, except for 12 years spent at Gowrie. In the later years their home has been in Winterset.

Mr. Hoyt united with the Baptist church when quite young and soon after his marriage united with the Seventh Day Advent church, where he remained a faithful and helpful member. Above everything else in his life has been his love for Christ and his love of the Bible and his church came next. His love for home and family were a part of his religious life and his heart was so filled with love that he freely loved and helped all those about him. In all his later years he has seemed a very patriarch of love.

For the past two years he had been in failing health and passed away on June 29th at the age of 81 years. He leaves besides his wife and children, 31 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.

Rev. V. J. Johns of Des Moines conducted the funeral services in the Tidrick funeral home Tuesday afternoon, July 2nd and the interment was in the Winterset cemetery.

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