George Beerbower (1896)
BEERBOWER
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/6/2008 at 09:28:29
Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, March 12, 1896
Page 5George Beerbower, of Chicago, died yesterday morning, and the remains will be brought to Winterset Friday for interment. The Masonic fraternity will have the funeral in charge. Mr. Beerbower was a former resident of this county and will be remembered by a great many.
________________________Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, March 13, 1896
Page 3A Madison County Pioneer Gone.
Word was received here Tuesday evening of the death at the home of his son, Fred Beerbower, in South Des Moines, of George A. Beerbower, who was one of the pioneers and for many years a resident of this county, residing about two miles west of the city, the name being still perpetuated in the “Beerbower school house.”
Mr. Beerbower was born in Maryland, in 1817. In early life he removed to Holmes county, Ohio, whence in 1852 he removed to this county, where he continued to reside till a short time ago, when he went to Des Moines to reside with his son, his wife having some years ago passed to the beyond. He was always esteemed in the neighborhood as an upright God-fearing man, model husband and father, a good neighbor, and as a citizen, energetic, progressive and patriotic.
The religious services of the funeral obsequies were held at Des Moines and the remains brought to Winterset today for interment in the cemetery here, by the side of his wife, and son and daughter. The body on its arrival at the station was in charge by Evening Star Masonic Lodge, of which deceased was a charter member, and conveyed to its last resting place, where with the ceremonies of the order he loved, all that was mortal of George A. Beerbower, was consigned to the tomb, to await the resurrection of the just.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, March 13, 1896
Page 5, Column 3George Beerbower Dead
George E. Beerbower, a pioneer resident of this County, died at Sevastopol, near Des Moines, Tuesday. The body will be brought to Winterset for burial and the funeral will occur Friday.
He was about 75 years old and was one of the charter members of the Masonic Lodge of this city. He lived for many years on the farm two miles west of the city and was one of the first settlers of Lincoln township.
The Masonic Lodge will receive the body at the train Friday noon and will charge of the burial.
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