Lemuel E. Inman (1931)
INMAN, WRIGHT, JONES, POPE
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 1/7/2015 at 08:06:31
Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, July 2, 1931FATHER OF FOUR IS CALLED HOME
Lemuel Inman, 41, of De Soto, Was Well Known in This Vicinity.
Funeral services for Lemuel Inman, popular manager of the Adams Township Mutual Telephone Co., who passed away Sunday at his home in De Soto, were held Monday afternoon from the Friends Church here with the pastor Rev. S. N. Hester officiating. Interment was in Earlham Cemetery.
Death was due to an illness of two weeks with pneumonia. From the first physicians held little hope for Mr. Inman’s recovery. A post-mortem examination revealed an unusual growth in arteries near the heart that interfered with the blood circulation, indicating that from the first he had been beyond the aid of medical skill.
Lemuel E. Inman, son of Stamper L. and Rachel R. Inman, was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, January 23, 1890, passing away at his home in De Soto, Iowa, Sunday, June 28, 1931, aged 41 years, five months and five days.
Lem, as he was generally known, at the age of 12 years, moved with his parents to Dallas County locating on a farm in the Hickory Grove neighborhood northeast of Earlham. Completing grade school here, he later attended Earlham’s Academy.
On March 18, 1914 he was united in marriage to Ethel Iona Wright, also of Earlham. The first two years of their married life was spent on a farm south of Earlham, they later residing on the adjoining localities of Redfield, Adel and Earlham. In March 1930 they moved to De Soto which has since been their home.
To this union were given four children, two sons and two daughters: Eleanor Irene, age 16, Wilbur Edwin, age 11, Richard Lowell, age 7, and Alice Jean age one year.
When Lem was about 16 years old he united with the Hickory Grove U. B. Church of which he was still a member at the time of its dissolution. He remained steadfast in his faith to the end and from conversations with loved ones every reason was given that he had made his calling and election sure.
Not being of a demonstrative disposition, only those who knew him best knew the love which he bestowed upon his home and those most dear to him. He bore his illness, which was very serious from the first, with the same patience that he met all the problems of life. And when it became impossible for him to longer endure the pains of the flesh, slipped quietly home just as the rays of dawn crept up the eastern sky. He will be missed from the places that knew him best, but the little acts of kindness which he performed here and there with no thoughts of a reward will long be remembered.
Besides his devoted wife and children, he leaves to mourn his death, his aged father, four brothers and two sisters, his mother and infant sister and brother having preceded him in death. Those remaining are his father, S. L. Inman of Earlham, his brothers, Asa, of Oakland; Powers of Earlham; Lush of Rockford; Russell of Earlham; his sisters, Mrs. Lillie Jones of Redfield and Mrs. Jennie Pope of Mason City, who with their families and a host of other relatives and friends mourn his departure.
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