SAMUEL MCFALL 1803-1883

MCFALL, BARBEE

Posted By: Dana Roquet (email)
Date: 10/27/2010 at 19:54:32

Oskaloosa Herald Weekly March 19, 1883

Died, at the old homestead where he has lived for nearly forty years, Thursday morning, March 15, Uncle Samuel McFall, aged 80 years. In 1844 he removed from Iroquois county, Ill., to this township, being one of the earliest settlers. It is said that the first wedding which occurred in this township after its settlement was at the home of this grand old man. For the church it can be said; “Truly a mighty man in Israel hath fallen.” A devout Christian from young manhood; an earnest, warm-hearted Methodist of the old school; a class leader for thirty-five years—shall such self-sacrificing work soon be forgotten? While we write a word from memory of “Uncle Sammy,” as everybody called him, it is with pleasant recollections for years of a kindly face, beaming with good cheer and warm greeting. The funeral services were held in the M.E. church here on Friday by Dr. Bond, assisted by Rev. E.P. Michener. The house was filled to overflowing—a worthy testimonial of the esteem with which he was held by all. Afterwards the remains were placed in the cemetery by the side of his wife, whose death preceded his own some four years. Gone but not forgotten! The imprints made upon the human heart by such an exemplary life—what power can stamp it out! Surely to such no one.
“There is not death; what seems so is transition, This life of mortal breath is but the suburb of the life Elysium, Whose portals we call death”