John D. White (1898)
GARRISON, KALE, WHITE
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Date: 8/3/2004 at 14:38:59
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March 1898At 6:00 Wednesday March 9, 1898, John D. White passed quietly away. He was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio June 1, 1822. At an early age he removed to Indiana, then to Iowa. He came to Madison county in '57, where the remainder of his life was spent.
His first marriage to Francis Garrison occurred in June '50. She died in April '73, he was again married to Susan Kale August 5, '80. He was the father of nine children 5 daughters and 4 boys, one son has preceded him unto the spirit world. Eight who are left to mourn with mother the loss of an affectionate and indulgent father and husband.
Mr. White was a man of many Christian virtues, ready at all times to extend aid and sympathy to the needy, and he was the center of attraction around which all the home circle revolved.
"Father's gone!" Few realize a father's true worth until it is too late; the many sacrifices made, the self denial practiced that his family may be made happier. But when the contest comes with the selfish world, we are compelled to at least divide even if not take smaller shares of life's sweets, where "father" took the fragments while the children enjoyed the lion's share and to him it was a work of love. These things come back to us, fresh and vivid, every time we stand beside the bier of somebody's 'father', and we would like to impress it strongly on the memory of the young to never neglect an opportunity to say a kind word or a loving deed for your father.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. I. Farley from the M. E. church on Thursday, March 10, '98 and were attended by many old-time neighbors and friends of the deceased. The last sad rites for the dead were performed, and the mortal remains of John D. White were laid to rest in the Hartman cemetery.
-------------------------Winterset Reporter – March 10, 1898
Pg 5John White, one of the first settlers in Ohio township, died at his home in Truro, Wednesday morning.
------------------------Winterset Reporter – March 17, 1898
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Ohio TownshipDied at his home in Truro, March 9th, 1898, Mr. J. C. White, age 76 years. Deceased was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and came to Iowa in early manhood, and removed to Madison county at the close of the war, where he has since resided. His wife died some twenty years ago, and a few years later he was married to Mrs. Susan Kale, who survives him. To the first union were born nine children, eight of whom are still living. The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Thursday morning, conducted by Rev. Farley and interment made in the Hartman cemetery.
---------------------------Winterset Madisonian – March 30, 1898
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Died, at his home in Truro, Madison county, Iowa, March 9, 1898, John D. White; aged 75 years, 9 months and 8 days.
John D. White was born in Preble county, Ohio, June 1, 1822. His parents moved to Warren county, Indiana, when he was eight years of age, where he lived till grown to manhood. He was married to Miss Frances Garretson, June 9, 1850, whose native state was Ohio. They came to Iowa in 1855 and lived one winter in Davis county. The following spring they came to Madison county and located in Jackson where they lived till 1865, when he purchased and moved to his farm one mile north of Truro. Here one little son died; here eight of their children attained the ages of maturity, and here his wife died April 20, 1873.
He was married August 5, 1880, to Mrs. Susan Kale, who together with his eight children, are left to mourn his absence.
Mr. White was a man of quiet, unassuming disposition, kind and agreeable to all alike. He possessed an honest, upright Christian character, and it can truthfully be said of him that he dealt honorably with all men.
He was a kind, indulgent father, an affectionate husband and a true friend. (Rest is unreadable)
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