Daniel Crocker (1838-1915)

CROCKER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/15/2019 at 21:37:40

From Nevada Representative February 12, 1915 (page 1)

OBITUARY

DANIEL CROCKER

Daniel Crocker was born in Chippema township, Wayne County, Ohio on Jan. 4th 1838. He was married in Wayne county to Sarah Johnson on March 9, 1862. To them were born two children both having died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Crocker moved to Iowa in April 1863 and resided in Jasper county until moving to Collins last spring with the exception of five years spent in Des Moines.

Brother Crocker confessed Christ in the old Greenside school house in a meeting held by Allan Hickey and Grandpa Wilson and was baptized in Clear Creek, Jasper county. He worked for a time with the Church of Christ at Clyde but when the church was organized at Maxwell in 1890 he became one of its charter members and one of its elders and served on the building committee. He remained with the church at Maxwell until the church was organized at Collins when he became one of its charter members and served as Elder and trustee until his death.

He was one of the largest contributors in the churches where he has worked and has also helped in building churches in other places.

He was called to his rest and reward on February 2nd 1915 after ten days illness of pneumonia. The funeral service was held in the Christian church on Friday, Feb. 5th, the pastor, Albert V. Hart officiating. He used as a basis for the sermon Phil. 1:20-21 "Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death. For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Interment was in Ashton cemetery. Besides his wife who is ill with pneumonia he leaves three brothers, two in Ohio and one in California.

The pall bearers were six members of the official board of the church, the remainder of the board together with the Mens Bible Class of which Bro. Crocker was a member marched in a body to the church.