Doty, Abel 1857-1932

DOTY, SHEETS, CARLSEN, ROUDABUSH, WENGER, ANDERSON, JOHNSTON, JENKINS, JOHNSON, WATSON, IRWIN, SKEELS, DUNLAP, CASE

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Date: 6/8/2010 at 15:43:35

The Brooklyn Chronicle (Brooklyn, Iowa) June 23, 1932

A. DOTY PASSES AWAY THURSDAY

Was Resident of This Community For Many Years; Funeral Held Saturday Afternoon

Abel Doty died last Thursday at his home in Madison township. Mr. Doty was in his 75th year and his death came suddenly.

On Monday before his death he was in Brooklyn and visited in the business houses here with a number of his friends. He has long been one of the energetic and capable farmers of Madison township.

He was a kindly man in his family as well as everywhere else. A few years ago Mr. and Mrs. Doty celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary surrounded by their children and grandchildren and many friends honored them on that day.

Of recent years it became necessary for Mr. and Mrs. Doty to assume the care of two small children of Glen Doty after the death of the mother. The devotion of these children to their grandparents was equalled only by the grandparent's devotion to them.

Abel Doty, youngest son of Abner and Harriet Doty was born in Delaware county, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1857 and passed into the great beyond June 16, 1932.

In the summer of 1866, when a lad of nine years, the family moved to Iowa from Ohio, making the journey in covered wagons and settling on a farm at Ladora in Iowa county.

On Nov. 10, 1878, he was married to Laura Sheets, who survives him. This union was blessed with 9 children, Mrs. Ada Carlsen, Forrest C., Mrs. Gertrude Roudabush, Mrs. Bertha Roudabush, Mrs. Minnie Wenger all of Brooklyn, Robert dying in infancy, Mrs. Ethel Anderson of Des Moines, Mrs. Cora Johnston and Glenn also of Brooklyn, who are left to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father.

Forty-five years ago he united with the Madison Christian church, later taking his membership to the Brooklyn M.E. church, of which he was a member at the time of his death.

In 1901 the family settled on a farm five miles north of Brooklyn where they still reside. Mr. Doty was an honest and upright man and a staunch friend in need, and a willing worker in the community in which he lived.

Mr. Doty was a member of the Masonic order of Brooklyn, also the Eastern Star, and a member of the Royal Arch Masons of Malcom, Ia.

When we consider Abel Doty in his three-fold relation to his family he was a devoted, ever kind and indulgent father, and the happiest moments of his life were when he could have his children and grandchildren with him, in whom he took so much comfort, and nothing could have been more to his liking than to have the six grandsons carry his body to its last resting place. All received such a shock when he was called to his reward.

To the church he tried to be faithful and always ready and willing to do his part. As a citizen he was honest and loyal, never wanted to be any trouble to his friends and neighbors and his friends and neighbors were never any trouble to him. He was willing at any time and all times to be of service to them. Although he is dead, he still lives in our memory and affection.

The large company that filled the Methodist church and the wonderful array of flowers bespeak the love and high esteem in which he was held.

The Rev. Mr. Kight, an old friend for nearly forty years, who now resides in Des Moines, conducted the funeral, assisted by Rev. E.W.F. Holler, pastor of the Presbyterian church.

The songs rendered in a most touching manner and the beautiful services of the Masonic order was altogether a most happy close for a life like Abel Doty's.

He is the last of his own family but five nieces and two nephews besides those mentioned before are left to mourn his loss. They are: Mrs. W.C. Jenkins, Grinnell, Ia.; Mrs. Anna Johnson, Carelton, Mich.; R.F. Watson, Grinnell, Ia.; Mrs. C.B. Irwin, Alma, Mich.; Mrs. Ida Skeels, Grinnell, Ia.; Mrs. Hattie Dunlap, Boulder, Colo.; Will Case, Des Moines.

Those present from a distance included Mrs. Doty's only sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Booth, Carlisle, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Perle Booth, Carlisle, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Zed Hutt, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stewart, New Virginia; Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Jenkins, R.F. Watson, Mrs. Hattie Keenan and daughter, Mrs. Ella Case and son Virgil, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Case, Grinnell; J.W. Slaymaker and son Forrest, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Slaymaker and daughter Edith, Mrs. Don Storkton, Mrs. Owen Slaymaker, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hawkins and son Clarence; Mrs. Laura Holipeter and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lutz, Ladora; and Miss Mildred Tenant.