William Henry Harrison Kiser (1922)
ALLEN, BENGE, DEWOLF, KINKENNON, KISER, RHODES, WELLS
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:54
The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 17, 1922
Page 5, Column 5OBITUARIES – Wm. Henry H. Kiser
William Henry Harrison Kiser, son of Lewis and Sarah Kinkennon Kiser and last surviving member of his father’s family, was born near West Point and Lafayette, Indiana, January 8, 1837, and departed this life at Colfax, Iowa, August 14, 1922, aged 86 years, 7 months and 6 days.
Mr. Kiser when a young man came to Iowa, first working on a farm for Thomas Mitchell, for whom Mitchellville was named, and endured many of the privations of pioneering. He attributed much of his later sufferings to his early experiences and exposures of teaming from Iowa City to Des Moines during the severe winters before the building of railroads.
In 1854 he located in Madison county and was married to Permelia Jane Rhodes in August, 1858. To this union were born nine children, the first James Lewis dying at the age of 4 ˝ years. The other children are Emory A., of Tiger, Washington; Elmer Franklin, of Des Moines; Jesse R., of Seattle, Washington; Mrs. Annette Wells, of Colfax; Edward L., who died in 1901; Mrs. Fannie Benge, of Winterset; Mrs. Sadie Allen, of Alhambra, California, and Carl D. Kiser, of Okoboji.
Mr. Kiser for many years was in the grocery business in Winterset where he earned for himself the respect and esteem of the entire community, because of his honorable and upright feelings and his strict adherence to duty.
In October, 1890 he moved because of failing health, to Colfax where he has since lived, preferring to live a quiet unobtrusive life, but always busy with such work as brought him in closer touch with nature, which he loved and studied in all her forms.
His wife, the mother of his children, died October 8, 1899. In 1902 he was married to Mrs. Sarah DeWolf, of Chicago, who preceded him in death six months.
Mr. Kiser, though not affiliated with any church for many years was brought up with strict Christian training, his grandfather being one of the leaders in the restoration movement and his mother an ardent Christian worker during her useful life. The deceased served his country in the Civil war, belonging to Co. F., 47 Iowa infantry.
He leaves to mourn his loss four sons, three daughters, seventeen grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, besides other relatives and a host of friends who will miss the quiet and unobtrusive ways of a man who loved the good and true in this life and believed in the higher and better things of the life beyond.
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