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Agustus Chase (1883)

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Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/12/2007 at 07:12:33

Winterset Madisonian - December 27, 1883
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

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Mr. Agustus Chase, one of the old and respected farmers of Douglas township, died at his home on Christmas morning.
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Winterset Madisonian - January 24, 1884
Winterset, Iowa
page 3

OBITUARY

Died, in Douglas township, Madison county, Iowa, Dec. 25th, 1883, Agustus Chase, aged 81 years, and 3 months. Father Chase was born in Ontario county, State of New York, April 27, 1802. From there he moved to Ohio, and then to Indiana. Here he was joined in marriage, April 29, 1822, to Miss Jane Blayds. Up to this time he was engaged in a life of hard labor, in various occupations of life.

In the spring of 1849 he moved with his family to Warren county, Iowa. Here he was engaged in a mill for three years. From Warren county he moved to Madison county, where he lived till death. Father Chase entered the land on which he died at Government price, and by hard and honest toil, made him a pleasant home, as the surroundings of the homestead will show. Many were the trials and privations in a frontier life that he passed through in the early history of Madison county.

He was the father of 12 children, 7 of whom are still living; three living in Kansas, three in Iowa, and one in Indiana. His companion died March 18, 1870. In his fortieth year he professed faith in Christ and joined the M. E. Church in which he lived faithful till death. The last year of this aged father were attended with feebleness and frailty of body which kept him close at home. We frequently visited him and found him cheerful and possessing a spirit of resignation to the will of God. On the Wednesday before his death he was in usual health. After eating his dinner, and before leaving the table, he had a stroke of paralysis, and was in a helpless condition till death. His death was peaceful and quiet.

It is not the purpose of the writer of this article to eulogise the dead, yet there were many traits of character in this man's life the living should exemplify, one of which I will mention; that is the love and affection for children. His little grand-daughter, Eisle Chase, aged 8 years, was much company for him in his last days; he would often take her by the hand and walk out to the barn and elsewhere with her and would speak of her in the last hours of his life, and would say, "love and revere old age."

The funeral exercises were conducted at the house by the Rev. A. B. Shipman and the body was conveyed to the Winterset cemetery to its last resting place.


 

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