John Brooker (1904)

BROOKER, HUBBARD

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/26/2009 at 09:02:38

The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1904
Page 2

Local Tips

John Brooker died at his home in the north part of town last Friday morning of consumption and was buried in the cemetery ten miles north of the city Sunday. Mr. Brooker was one of the substantial and respected farmers of Jefferson township. ----- months ago he moved to Winterset to occupy his newly build house. He only just situated himself to enjoy his remaining years in peace and ----- when death claimed him. He was an old soldier and had been an exemplary citizen all his life. He was a faithful and consistent Christian. The world was the better for his having been in it.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1904
Page 5

County and City

Ex-supervisor Brooker died at his home just north of the city on last Friday evening. Brief services were held at the home on Sunday morning and the remains taken to Fairview where services were held and interment made.

Mr. Brooker was widely known throughout the county. He served the county as member of the board of supervisors from 1892 to 1898, and his life in public and at home was marked by honesty and uprightness and won for him the confidence and respect of his friends and associates.

He moved from his Jefferson township farm to Winterset last fall intending to pass his declining years in a well earned rest from active life. At about the time he moved he contracted a severe cold which rapidly developed into tuberculosis. A more extended mention of his life will appear in these columns next week.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 21, 1904
Page 8

Obituary

John Brooker was born in Morgan county, Ohio April 11, 1838 and died at his home in Winterset, Iowa April 8, 1904, aged 65 years, 11 months and 28 days.

When 9 years of age he came with his parents to Clayton county, Iowa. At an early age he formed a business partnership with his brothers, Gudliff and George. This continued with the greatest satisfaction until he with his brother George enlisted in 1862 in the 27th Iowa Infantry. He was a faithful soldier in the service of his country until the close of the war, returning to Clayton county. In 1867 he with his brother George came to Madison county and he located on the farm owned by him at the time of his death in Jefferson township.

He was married November 7, 1867 to Mary Hubbard. To this union were born four daughters and two sons, who with the wife survives him, and all of whom but one are now in homes of their own.

In 1869 he was converted and united with the Presbyterian church, afterwards removing his membership to the Methodist Episcopal church of which he remained a faithful member to the end of life. He honorably filled the offices of class leader, Sunday school superintendent and steward in the church at various times and was faithful in each. He always took great interest in matters of public welfare and was a member of the board of supervisors of Madison county for six years. He loved his home and was a faithful, true husband and a loving father.

After years of suffering which he bore with rare patience and perfect submission to the will of God, he passed away in peace ready for the summons of the Master when it came. On the Sabbath before his death his class in Sunday school with which he had met for many years received from him this message, “Tell them to be faithful.” To those at his bedside he looked with a smile a few minutes before the end came and said, “I’ll soon be over.”

The funeral services, attended by a great concourse of friends and neighbors, were held at the Fairview church where he had been a member for many years on Sunday April 10th at 1 p.m. The sermon, by the pastor, was from John 11:35, Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” In bodily presence we shall see him no more but in the influence of the life he lived among men he remains with us still.

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