John Cyrus Mease (1935)
COLVIN, HOWE, MEASE, PURVIS, SIMMONS, SMITH, SPERA
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/23/2011 at 06:48:52
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 10, 1935
Page 6Peru Happenings
J. C. Mease, a very highly respected citizen of Peru, died at his home here Monday morning following a long siege of failing health. Mr. and Mrs. Mease have lived in town for several years and prior to that lived on a farm just east of town where they reared their family in the Ebenezer neighborhood. He has been a very active member in the church and all community interests for good. He will be greatly missed and the family have the sympathy of the entire neighborhood.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 10, 1935
Page 1, Column 4MADISON PIONEER DIES AT PERU HOME
Lived in County Nearly 79 Years. Services Wednesday in Peru.
John Cyrus Mease, 78, pioneer and well known Walnut township farmer, died at his home in Peru Monday. He had been in ill health the last eight years and confined to his bed the past six weeks.
Services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Peru church and burial in the Ebenezer cemetery. He leaves his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Purvis of Truro, and Mrs. Raymond Spera of Winterset; and two sons, Wilbur Mease of Broken Bow, Nebraska, and Grover Mease of Peru. A daughter, Millie May, died in infancy and a son, William, 17, in 1909. He is survived by six grandchildren and a great grandchild, Jay Rodney Colvin of Winterset; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Smith of Lyons, Kansas, and Mrs. Beatrice Simmons of Winterset, and a brother, Martin Mease of Truro. Mrs. Harold Colvin and Miss Lois Mease of Winterset are granddaughters.
Mr. Mease was the son of Louis and Mary Mease, and was born December 12, 1856 at Polo, Illinois. He was but five months old when the family came to Madison county in a covered wagon to settle on a farm one and a half miles southeast of Peru, formerly known as the Yahne farm. After eight years the family moved in 1864 to the Mease improved which he owned at the time of his death. He remained on the home place until twenty-six years ago when he moved to Peru.
He was married to Laura Ann Howe March 25, 1880. When sixteen he became a member of the Methodist church and at eighteen was appointed class leader. He had always been an active worker in the church as long as health permitted.
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