David Allen Sawyers (1928)
HUMBLE, NIXON, PHILLIPS, SAWYERS, SAXTON
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 8/10/2004 at 13:08:14
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 5, 1928Macksburg, Iowa
David Sawyers, a former resident of Macksburg, died Wednesday, June 27, at the Old Soldiers Home in Marshalltown.
The body was brought back here and funeral services were held in the Methodist church Friday afternoon at three o’clock. Interment was in the Moon cemetery. The Masonic order of Lorimor had charge of the services at both the church and cemetery. The body was accompanied by a nephew, A. L. Lyons of Unionville.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 12, 1928
Page 6, Column 4Macksburg - Obituary
Pioneer of Madison county called home. David Allen Sawyers was born at Connersville, Tennessee on January 13, 1841 and passed away at the Old Soldiers Home at Marshalltown on June 28, 1928, aged 87 years, 5 months and 15 days.
He was married to Margaret M. Humble before the Civil war broke out but he enlisted when his country called for volunteers and served during the rest of the war. He studied medicine expecting to become a doctor but his eyes failed so fast that he gave up the work and settled at Macksburg where he conducted a drug store and later added grocery and dry goods.
After the death of his wife in 1897 and his two daughters Mrs. Hal Saxton and Mrs. Fields Hasty, who preceded their mother and death he decided to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Philip at Unionville, Iowa to which place he moved. His sister who became an invalid was not able to care for him longer and so about 18 months ago he entered the Soldiers Home where he felt he could have better and more constant care.
He leaves to mourn his loss a granddaughter Mrs. Earl Nixon of Oxford, Kansas two sisters, one who was a nurse in the Civil war and at present is living in the Soldiers Home in Nebraska, the other Mrs. Mattie Phillips of Unionville, a number of nieces and nephews and other relatives.
A Masonic funeral was held at the M. E. church at Macksburg on Friday afternoon by Rev. Hall of Lorimor and Tom Beaumont of Creston after which he was laid to rest by the side of his wife and daughters at the Moon cemetery.
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