Rezin E. Kail (1893)

KAIL

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/29/2008 at 14:37:39

Winterset Madisonian – October 20, 1893
Winterset, Iowa
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County and City

Rezin Kail, of Penn township, who has long been an invalid, died last Friday, and was buried on Saturday, the 14th inst.

Winterset Madisonian – October 20, 1893
Winterset, Iowa
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In Memoriam

Friday morning, October 13, our entire community was moved by the sad intelligence that Rezin Kail had entered into eternal rest.

The funeral services occurred Saturday morning at 11 o’clock at the Penn Center church, beautifully decorated by loving hands. A vast audience gathered to pay the last sad respects of the living to the dead. The funeral oration was delivered by Rev. Wright, of Dexter, from Luke 12 to: “he ye therefore ready also, for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when ye there not.” Tenderly, eloquently, impressively did he speak of the such sweet life of the departed and appealed to all present to accept Christ as their better portion as he had done.

While we can not understand this providential decree, which we doubt and murmur when death snatches from us one who had just entered upon a life rich --------(unreadable)

Time can not efface the influence cast by the Christian patience and resignation with which Rezin bore his intense suffering. May it indeed bring his many friends and associates to a serious consideration and a final acceptation of Christ.

At the close of the service, the favorite songs of the departed being sung by warm friends, the vast concourse of people wended their way to the cemetery, where all that remained mortal was laid to rest in a tomb made beautiful with flowers.

One by one of the pure and noble of earth are passing into that state of blessedness to await the hope of a resurrection. Till then his memory is with us, a precious heritage.

God grant to support the bereaved family in this sad hour and bless this sorrow to their greatest good.

Note: Burial was made in the Earlham cemetery.