Rev. John Wesley Todd (1879)

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Posted By: Cay Merryman
Date: 8/4/2004 at 10:56:46

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 26, 1879
Page 2

Death of Rev. J. W. Todd

Last Saturday morning a 8 o’clock the Rev. Mr. Todd, of the M. E. church, peacefully passed away. His death was no surprise to our community, as it had been evident for sometime that he could not recover.

Death has removed from our midst one who had devoted his life to make mankind better and happier, and whose only desire was to have his fellow beings serve his Lord and Master, and lead such lives as should the (unreadable) prepare them for Heaven.

He leaves a wife and six children who have the sympathy of their many friends in this their sad hour of bereavement. Next week we shall publish an obituary notice, giving a short sketch of his life, written by Elder M. D. Collins.
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Newspaper Unknown
June 1879

Rev. John Wesley Todd, son of Smith and Lucy Todd was born in Morgan county, Ill., Nov 11, 1831, and died at his post in the Winterset station, Des Moines Conference, June 21, 1879.

In 1853, in company with his brother, Madison, he emigrated to Iowa and settled in Warren county, where in 1855, at a meeting held by Rev. Brother Pring, he was happily converted to God. He was soon licensed to exhort, and in 1857 he received license to preach. At the session of the Iowa Conference held in Des Moines, Sept. 1857, he was admitted to the traveling connection and appointed to Adel circuit as junior preacher with Rev. A. W. Johnson as colleague.

(The remainder of this quite lengthy article gives no further genealogical information, dwelling entirely on the different districts in which he served)

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