Jonah Shreves (1910)

LONGABAUGH, SHREVES

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34

The Advocate-Tribune
Indianola, Iowa
Thursday, January 13, 1910
Page 3, Column 5

Jonah Shreves was born in Indiana January 2, 1833, and came to Madison county, Iowa, in 1850. July 9, 1854, he was married to Elizabeth Longabaugh, theirs being the first marriage license of record in Madison county. To them were born twelve children of whom two sons and seven daughters are now living.

“Uncle” Jonah was a typical pioneer and was proud of the fact that notwithstanding the privations and toil he had helped to develop this great west—and that as his physical strength declined he was permitted to live in joy and comfort upon his fine farm in Jackson township, Warren county, that had been his home for nearly twenty years. June 26, 1907, the happy married life of fifty years was broken by the death of his wife and though cared for by loving children and given every attention that loving and dutiful children could render, he slowly failed in health and strength till his death January 2, 1910, on his seventy-seventh birthday.

Early in life he united with the United Brethren church and later with the M.E. church and as earth receded from his sight the joys of the eternal city became more real to him and the last word he spoke on earth was “glory”.

The funeral was held at the M.E. church in St. Charles, conducted by Rev. S. W. Lee with prayer by the pastor, R. W. George. Interment in the St. Charles cemetery.

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