John Nichols Calhoun (1834-1909)

CALHOUN, MARSH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/31/2017 at 09:51:19

From Nevada Representative June 15, 1909 (front page)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF JOHN N. CALHOUN

John Nichols Calhoun died at his home in this city at 12:30 p. m. today, aged 75 years, 2 months and 3 days. He had been ill with paralysis since the first of March and his condition had much of the time been regarded as exceedingly serious; but lately he had been improving materially, and his death is a shock to family and friends. It appears to be due not to a recurrence of the original trouble but to stomach trouble, the result of over-eating. He was taken with vomiting at ten o'clock this morning, and he never rallied from the strain, although he was conscious to the last.

Mr. Calhoun was born in Cataraugus county, New York, April 12, 1834 and died as stated at Nevada, Iowa, June 15, 1909. He grew up in New York but came west as a young man, the family locating in Wisconsin, and he was married at Portage in that state July 2, 1857, to Mary E. Marsh, who with their two children survives him. They moved to Minnesota, where he took up a claim and where their daughter Minnie was born. Not long afterward they removed to Ft. Dodge Iowa where their son John R. was born and from there they came in 1876 to Nevada. Here they resided until 1893, when they removed to Des Moines, and the next year they removed to Battle Creek, Michigan. There they remained until the summer of 1908, when most happily they returned to their old home in Nevada, and here his last months have been spent. Mr. Calhoun was attended in his last illness and in his last hours by his wife and children who with six grand-children are his surviving family.

Mr. Calhoun was baptized into the Seventh-Day-Adventist denomination in 1860 and of that church he was ever after a staunch supporter. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun were charter members of the church in Nevada, and it was the establishment here of the Adventist sanitarium and headquarters that brought them back here. In all his life Mr. Calhoun was a man of earnestness and devotion to principle, upright in all things and a most worthy example to children and friends.

The funeral will be conducted at two o'clock Thursday from the Adventist church.