Stevens, Edward (Died 1898)

STEVENS, TEARE

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Date: 4/10/2011 at 16:38:07

LeMars Globe
2-5-1898

Edward Stevens who has been under the doctor’s care for some time and who was operated on for tuberculosis about two weeks ago and who was thought to be gaining ground a little, notwithstanding the belief of the physicians that he would not recover, died on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Stevens was well known all over Plymouth county where he has resided for some time.
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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
2-7-1898

OBITUARY: Died, February 1, 1898, at about six o’clock Ed Stevens, at about sixty five years of age. Mr. Stevens was born in England. In early youth he was apprenticed as a coach maker at which trade he worked for some years when he ran away from his employer and came to America and settled in Albany, N.Y. and engaged in coach making and later car building. He was the maker of the first street car ever run in New york City and was afterwards sent to Chicago to help in the construction of railroad coaches at that place. At the breaking out of the war of rebellion he was engaged in selling goods in Illinois, which business he sold to enlist in Co. I, 102 Illinois infantry. When at the front he served as wagon master until he left the service and had all the varied experience of the old veteran. After the war he engaged in freighting from Omaha to Denver and saw much of pioneer life during those early days. He was afterwards engaged in farming in Illinois but sold out there about fourteen years ago to come to Iowa and first thought of settling in LeMars, but concluded to come to Kingsley and grow up with the town and country. He bought considerable property. He has been closely identified with the growth and government of Kingsley, having held the office of councilman and which he held at the time of his death and no officer ever had more of the confidence of the people in a public trust, as he was incompatible, out-spoken and fearless in all his public duty. He was a Mason and his wish was that he simply have a Masonic burial and nothing more. He leaves a wife and one son, William Stevens, who is well known in this county. He was married to Miss Margaret C. Teare in 1852 at East Troy, N.Y., who is about of his own age. Ed Stevens will be as much missed as anyone in Kinglsey. His roughest side was outermost, but he had a kind heart and a host of friends who all join in sympathy for the sorrowing family. The funeral took place from the family residence on Thursday, February 3, 1898 and he was laid to rest in the Kingsley Cemetery which he helped to found. His burial was conducted by the Kingsley Masonic lodge in their simple but beautiful, yet solemn, ritual form. He has but one brother living who resides in England; a nephew, an architect of renown in India.

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