John H. Hauser 1825-1910

HAUSER, ARNEY, WHITACRE, BEESON, ROBILLIARD, BROWN, IRVIN, PRICE, TAYLOR

Posted By: C Tucker (email)
Date: 9/9/2010 at 11:21:50

Evening Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [Monday, 4-11-1910] p. 8

PIONEER OF COUNTY DIES NEAR LISCOMB
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END COMES TO JOHN H. HAUSER JR., SIXTY-ONE YEARS ON SAME FARM
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ONE OF FIRST SETTLERS IN LISCOMB TOWNSHIP
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Mr. Hauser Settled on Present Farm in the Fall of 1849 -- Drove With Own Team and Brought Own Milch Cows With Him -- One of the Organizers of Bethel Christian Church

Death came at 3:15 this morning to one of the oldest settlers of the county and one of the real pioneers of Liscomb township, when John H. Hauser, Jr., passed away at his home, three and one-half miles southwest of Liscomb, after an illness of about six weeks, due to pernicious anemia. Mr. Hauser had resided on the same farm where he died for almost sixty-one years. Mr. Hauser's death was not unexpected, as he had been failing in health gradually for over a year. When Mr. Hauser came to Marshall county, in the fall of 1849, and took up a claim on the Iowa river, Marshall county was truly virgin soil. Mr. Hauser drove the long distance from his native Indiana to make his new home in the "far west." Because of the lack of civilization here he brought his own cows with him. Out of the native timer he hewed the logs that entered the construction of his log cabin. Wolves were then nightly visitors about his home, and bands of roving Indians were camped along the river near the spot he had selected for his abode. Deer and wild turkey were plentiful, and the larder of this pioneer family was kept filled with the choicest of wild game that was shot from the cabin door. In fact all the experiences of pioneer life were the lot of John Hauser, and his bride of a year when they came to Marshall county to make their new home. In the log cabin that he first built Mr. Hauser and his family lived until 1857, when a new brick house was erected, and has since been used as the family home. John H. Hauser, Jr., was born July 16, 1825, in Owen county, Indiana, and in his native county took Mary Arney as his wife on Feb. 3, 1848. In the fall of the following year Mr. and Mrs. Hauser came to this county and settled on the farm that has since been their home. Mr. and Mrs. Hauser became the parents of ten children, six of whom are living. The children who survive with their aged mother are George Hauser, who lives just south of his father's place, and on the same farm: Mrs. Eliza Whitacre, of this city, who has been with her father assisting in his care for the past month; Mrs. Sarah A. Beeson, of Independence; Mrs. W. H. Robilliard, of Faribault, Minn., L. W. Hauser, who lives on the old home place; and Mrs. Alfred A. Brown, of West Liberty. The children dead are William, Wiley, Caroline and Luella. Mr. Hauser also leaves fifteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Joseph Whitacre, of this city, is one of the grandsons. There also survive four sisters, Mrs. Hulda Arney, of Parker, S. D.; Mrs. Elisa Irvin and Mrs. L. W. Price, of Whitten, and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor, of Fullerton, Neb. Thomas N. Hauser, Mr. Hauser's last surviving brother, died at Whitten last August. Mr. Hauser was one of the organizers of the New Bethel Christian church which is situated in the neighborhood in which he lives. The funeral will be held from the church Wednesday morning at the church. Rev. W. H. Scott, of this city, officiating. Interment will follow in the Bethel cemetery. Mrs. Robilliard reached Liscomb from Faribault Saturday night.