David Tyler (1908)

TYLER, BILLINGS, FRIEND

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 8/12/2010 at 10:29:45

Winterset Reporter
Thursday, September 3, 1908
Page 5

Middle River

David Tyler died at his home at this place Sunday. He was one of the old settlers and was also an old soldier.
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Winterset Reporter
Thursday, September 10, 1908
Page 4

Another Pioneer Called Home

Middle River is called upon to witness the passing away of another pioneer of the county. One more added to the long list of those who have died in the last year.

David Tyler, a resident of the county since 1883 and a respected citizen of Middle River since 1889, died at his home Sunday Aug. 30th at 4 p.m., after suffering with a stroke of paralysis for a period of seventeen days.

Mr. Tyler was born Jan. 24, 1837 in Pine Hill, Ulster county, N.Y., and died at his home in Middle River, Ia., Aug. 30, 1908. He was an old soldier, enlisted with Company C 112 Illinois Vol. Infantry in 1862 and served his country faithfully for three years.

Five years later he married Eliza J. Billings at Monmouth, Henry county, Ill. To this union two daughters were born. His wife and one daughter preceed him to the better world. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Maggie Friend, of Middle River, and eight grandchildren to mourn his loss. He was a good neighbor and a kind father and was dearly beloved by his grandchildren.

The funeral was conducted by the G.A.R. Post from Winterset, and he was laid in his last resting place by the side of his wife in the Roberts cemetery.

He responded to his last bugle call
A precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacant in our home
Which never can be filled.
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Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, September 3, 1908
Page 5, Column 3

City and County

David Tyler, a veteran of the civil war and an old and respected resident of this county, died Sunday from an attack of paralysis at his home in the village of Webster. Burial was conducted on Tuesday afternoon at the Roberts cemetery. The deceased was a survivor of Company C, Eleventh Illinois infantry, and a number of G. A. R. comrades of this place attended the funeral in the capacity of pall bearers.

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