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Joseph A. Breeding (1889)

BREEDING, TURK

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/29/2007 at 17:09:18

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, August 23, 1889
Page 4

Mr. J. A. Breeding, of Scott township, one of the oldest and best citizens of Madison county, died at his home last Saturday morning after a brief illness. Mr. Breeding’s sterling qualities as a citizen, a neighbor and friend will make his loss a great one to the community, while the loss to his family will be irreparable.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, August 23, 1889
Page 4

Obituary Notice.

Died at his residence near Winterset, August 17th, 1889, Joseph Breeding aged 68 years, 21 days.

Mr. Breeding was born and grew to manhood in Adair county, Kentucky. In 1857 he married Eliza A. Turk who survives him as his widow.

Dissatisfied with the institution of slavery, in 1860 he left Kentucky and located in Madison county, Iowa, where the spirit of freedom was more in harmony with his feelings. After the war of the rebellion had been prosecuted for more than a year and darkness and uncertainty seemed to hang as a gloom over the whole north, when hope and determination wrought up to the point of desperation seemed to impel stalwart youth and patriotic manhood to go fourth to meet death or victory, Joseph A. Breeding, in 1862, enlisted in the 39th Iowa Infantry. The history of this regiment for its first year was his history. He took part in its marches, duties, contests, until disability compelled his discharge at the end of a years service.

He came home and shoffed the blue, but ever kept up the soldiers’ sympathy, and no one perhaps enjoyed the comradeship of those with whom he served more than he. After retiring from the service he devoted himself to the interest of his family and farm works and social enterprise in his neighborhood. He was very domestic and very indulgent as a parent. He raised a family of six, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are married. In his death, his venerable mother, some seventy five years of age, is left as the last survivor of her family. She and his bereaved widow are the occupants of his late home.

Mr. Breeding was well known in Madison county and had the confidence of the people in a very high degree. He was social in his disposition, patriotic in his instincts and his makeup as a man embodied all the noble and better qualities of manhood and but few of those that detract.

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