Chester Sidney Purvis (1926)

PURVIS, BENEDICT, CARVER, ATKINSON, JOHNSON

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Date: 1/27/2017 at 10:01:17

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 1, 1926
Page 10

Oak Run – Ebenezer

Several people from this neighborhood attended the funeral of Chet Purvis on Monday.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 8, 1926
Page 3

Chester Sidney Purvis was born to John and Adaline Purvis near West Liberty, Muscatine county, Iowa, July 14, 1855. He was married to Ella Benedict near West Liberty, Feb. 19, 1878, where they resided until the year 18—when they moved to Madison county and settled on a farm near Truro, dwelling there until they retired from the farm and moved to Truro, where March 26, 1926 Mr. Purvis died of heart failure and hardening of the arteries. He passed peacefully and quietly into the great beyond trusting in the hope of the Great Saviour.

To Mr. and Mrs. Purvis were born two children, Arthur of Truro and Mrs. Blanch Carver also of Truro.

Mr. Purvis gave his heart and life to Christ when he was a young man twenty-five years old and united with the Methodist protestant church. After moving to Madison county he united with the Friends church where he retained his membership until moving to Truro, when he and his wife brought their membership to the Methodist Episcopal church of Truro. It can be said of Brother Purvis as of only a few men, that for forty-five years he never failed daily to read some portion of God’s Word to his family and lead them in devotions to God in busy seasons as well as in idle times. He was faithful to his church to his Christian duties, to his country and to his God. He was a thoughtful and kind husband, a loving father and a faithful friend.

He leaves to mourn his departing his faithful wife, his son Arthur of Truro, his daughter, Mrs. Blanch Carver, his two grandchildren, Paul Carver and Hazel Carver Johnson, his sister Nattie E. Atkinson, a great grandson Orval Eugene Johnson, his son in law Arthur Carver and his daughter in law Mrs. Arthur Purvis, besides a host of very close and dear friends together with all his brethren in the church and all his neighbors. Funeral services were conducted in the Methodist church at Truro Sunday afternoon by his pastor, Rev. Mr. James and Rev. Frederick Cooper, pastor of the Christian church.

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