Dr. Ephraim Henry Munk aka Monk (1849-1911)

MUNK, MONK, HOAG

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Representative December 5, 1911 (page 1)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF DR. MUNK

Dr. E. H. Munk, well known citizen of Nevada, died shortly after midnight Monday morning at the Iowa Sanitarium, where he had been for about ten days. His death was the culmination of a breaking down that had been coming upon him for some time; but this final decline was so rapid that very few of his friends and acquaintances had come to understand how critical his condition had actually become. There was, however, a general failure of which the alarming manifestation was dropsy. This started with his feet and worked up, and he understood as well as did others the significance of its progress. With his physical decline, moreover there was more or less of mental halucination, and as a result of this latter manifestation he was at time a patient difficult to handle. From these reasons he was taken a week ago Friday from the old Hoag home, where he has been living with the Purkhiser family, to the Sanitarium, where he could have the attention which his condition demanded. After he had gone to the Sanitarium the advices concerning his continued to be unfavorable, and the official judgment there on Sunday afternoon was that he might last two weeks or might go at any time. In fact the end was nearer that was even then apprehended; for shortly after midnight, without any warning or sign of approaching dissolution, his heart ceased to beat.

Dr. Munk was a native of Mount Union, Stark county, Ohio, where he as born about 1847 and he was at the time of his death something over 64 years of age. He was reared and educated at Mount Union and later attended medical college at St. Louis, where he received his diploma as a physician. Soon after his graduation he came as a young practitioner to Nevada and started to practice. In his early years he was quite successful in his practice, and after a residence here of two or three years he was on December 23, 1874, married to Miss Lillian Hoag, who as then a girl of sixteen and eleven years his junior. They established their home in what is still the Munk homestead on Linn street, and there their two children, Grace and Edward, the latter much the younger, were born. In later years the doctor's practice as a physician declined and he was more or less employed in other occupations; but his activity as a citizen and his interest in public affairs never declined. He was for many years a very capable health-officer; he served for two years on the city council; he always had his say in politics, and up to the time of the very last election held in this city he was outspoken in his sentiments and effective in making trouble for those whose politics he was opposing. Through all the years of his residence here he was an active and zealous member of the Masonic order, and in the last few years he had had affiliations with the Adventist church. In his many and notable activities he invited many disagreements; but through it all his good nature was manifest, his positions perfectly understood and such few resentments as he provoked very short-lived. He was a man with whom it was very easy to differ but with whom any real quarrel was impossible, an in his death the universal good-will with which he has been regarded is very manifest.

His family have been for several years in California, and it has been quite impracticable for any of them to be here at the funeral, although his son Edward had visited here in the fall and had written his father that he would come again if the father thought it best--which he did not. In their absence the family representative here during the doctor's last illness and for his funeral has been and is Mrs. Chas. E. Hoag of Wapello, whose husband is a brother of Mrs. Munk. Very numerous friends, moreover, have stood ready to pay the last tribute to the deceased, and to support Mrs. Hoag in her responsibility. The funeral will be conducted Wednesday at two-thirty from the Adventist church and the ceremonial at the grave will be in accordance with the rites of the Masonic order.

From Nevada Representative December 8, 1911 (page 4)

Funeral of Dr. Munk

The funeral of the late Dr. E. H. Munk was conducted Wednesday afternoon from the Adventist church. There was an excellent and representative attendance, and though there was much regret that all the member of the immediate family were too far away to permit of their having come for this even, yet expressions of kindliness and respect were by no means lacking. The services at the church were conducted by Dr. Heald of the Sanitarium, who gave an appropriate and much appropriate discourse, and the singing was by the Adventist quartette. From the church the brethren of the Masonic order were in charge, and the ceremonies at the grave were conducted by M. A. Harrison, Master of the Masonic lodge and the final tributes were in accordance with the fitting ritual of the order. The interment was in the Hoag lot of the Nevada cemetery.