Joseph Harris Oller (1918)

OILER, KENNEDY, FENIMORE, HOLMES, CARTER, DELAHUNTY, KOENIGSBERGER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 12/29/2007 at 19:09:25

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 23, 1918

JOSEPH HARRIS OILER

Joseph Harris Oiler was born in Columbus, Ohio, April 10, 1853. When eight years of age, with his parents, moved to Hancock, Illinois where they resided until he was seventeen years of age when he moved to Lucas county, Iowa.

He was married to Sarah A. Kennedy, July 25, 1875. To this union were born eight children. He leaves to mourn his loss, a loving wife, two brothers, two sisters and eight children: Mrs. E. Fenimore, Neosho, Missouri; Mrs. F. A. Holmes, Mrs. J. P. Carter, John J. Oiler, of Winterset, J. Earl Oiler, of West Side, Iowa; Mrs. S. W. Delahunty and Mrs. A. Koenigsberger, both of Des Moines; Corp. Lee Oiler, of Camp Pike, Arkansas, and twenty-one grandchildren.

He was a life member of the Christian Union Church of Christ. All that looving hands and hearts could do to relieve his patient suffering was done but to no avail. He departed this life at 9:45 p.m. Sunday, October 13, 1918, at the age of 66 years, 6 months and 3 days. Interment at Rock City cemetery.