Robert Goshorn (1873)

GOSHORN, LEE

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 7/17/2007 at 23:43:59

The Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 28, 1873
Page 4, Column 3

Another Old Settler Gone

On Saturday last all that was mortal of Robert Goshorn was consigned to its last resting place.

Mr. Goshorn was not only an old settler but an old man. He would have been 88 next October. He was born in Juniatta county, Pennsylvania, in 1785. He resided there until 1837 when he moved to Blair county, Pennsylvania. In 1852 he moved to Iowa and during that year he buried his wife. In 1856 he moved to Madison county and has resided here ever since, much of the time with his daughter, Mrs. C. P. Lee.

Mr. Goshorn was a soldier in the war of 1812 and for the last few years of his declining life he drew a pension therefor.

He was a carpenter by trade, and all his life, until old age forbid, a hard worker. His son, Capt. J. S. Goshorn, has a beautiful bookcase that he made only about five years ago. Mr. Goshorn was a earnest Christian and died in the communion of the Presbyterian church.

He was the father of eleven children, only three of whom survive. They are Capt. J. S. Goshorn and Mrs. C. P. Lee, of this county, and Nicholas Goshorn, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Thus one by one the Pioneers of our County and State are passing, away and few years indeed remain to all our early settlers.

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