David Bradshaw (1893)

BRADSHAW

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/24/2008 at 10:38:09

Winterset Madisonian – March 24, 1893
Winterset, Iowa
Page 3

St. Charles and Roundabout

Uncle David Bradshaw, one of the pioneers of Ohio township, was called to rest on last Sunday. He was interred in the cemetery east of Truro on Tuesday. His has been a life full of usefulness and without a single wrong act.

Note: Burial was made in the Young cemetery.
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Newspaper Unknown, March 1893
Madison County, Iowa

OBITUARY

Last Sunday one of our houses was filled with sorrow and poignant grief, for a loving husband and kind father had passed over the river of Death. David Bradshaw, or “Uncle Dave,” as he was generally known, was one of our old and much respected citizens.

He was born in Washington county, Pa., June 15, 1817, where he spent his early years. When a youth his parents moved to Ohio, where young David spent his early years, and was united in marriage to Miss Polly Kale.

In 1854 he moved his family to the then young state of Iowa, where he has since resided. Mr. Bradshaw’s last illness was protracted for many weary weeks, the lamp of life dropping lower and lower until it went out entirely, so slowly that the anxious watchers who sat by his bedside could hardly tell when the last glimmer vanished into the darkness of eternity and the word, “finis” had been written to the history of his life. Go look at that record and you will hear of the career of one who had but very few if any enemies. A man who, while not loud in his profession of godliness, measured his acts by the golden rule; a man who won heaven, not by loud prayers, but by just acts.

The funeral was conducted from the M. E. church Tuesday, and the respect in which the deceased was held in the community was evinced by the large concourse of people that came to give honor to the dead. Rev. Williams, of St. Charles, preached the funeral sermon form the text, “When a few years are come, and I go whence I shall not return.” The choir led in the following beautiful and appropriate songs: One by One; Meet me there; and We will never say good-by.

After the services the remains were interred in the cemetery east of town and the bay thoughtless world moved on and the dead are of the past.

Transcriber note: David died 19 Mar 1893.

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