Josiah Dunahugh (1832-1911)

DUNAHUGH, HODGE, COUGHENOUR

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/15/2023 at 17:13:54

From Nevada Evening Journal March 13, 1911 (page 1)

AGED VETERAN AND PIONEER SUMMONED

FUNERAL OF JOSIAH DUNAHUGH IS BEING HELD THIS AFTERNOON.

The funeral of the late Josiah Dunahugh, whose death took place Saturday morning at 3:40 o'clock is being held this afternoon at Central Presbyterian church, after which the body will be interred in the Nevada cemetery, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic of which organization he deceased was a member. The funeral services at the church were largely attended by old neighbors and friends. Rev. Zike, of the Dalton United Brethren church, preached the sermon. Death followed an illness of several months during which time the deceased had suffered a complication of heart and stomach trouble.

Obituary of Josiah Dunahugh.

Josiah Dunahugh was the son of Andrew and Sarah Dunahugh and was born near Springhill, in Augusta county, Virginia Nov. 14, 1832. In the fall of 1852 with his parent and brothers and sisters he came to Iowa and located first in Johnson county where he continued to live for several years.

While a resident of Johnson county Mr. Dunahugh enlisted in Company F of the Sixteenth Iowa Infantry and was a member of the famous Crockers Brigade, that body consisting of the 11th, 13th, 15th and 16th Iowa regiments. As a member of this military body, he marched to the sea and was honorably discharged at Washington, D. C. May 13, 1865.

On December 28, 1871, he was married to Miss Margaret V. Hodge at Shueyville, in Johnson county. One son Fred G. Dunahugh was born to this union. The year following his marriage, 1872, he came to Story county and settled on a farm in New Albany township where the family resided until March 1890 when they moved to this city and made themselves a home over in Third ward where they have since resided and where the husband and father died.

The deceased leaves besides his aged wife and one son, one brother S. H. Dunahugh of Hoyt, Kansas and one sister, Mrs. Solomon Coughenour of this city.

Since moving to this city Mr. Dunahugh had never actively engaged in any particular line of work but lived in retirement. He had, however, served as court bailiff for a number of years and became well known to many people over the county in that connection.

Mr. Dunahugh was a an of most excellent character and highly respected by all who knew him as of a man of strict honesty and integrity. He had lived a long and useful life and his death will be learned of with regret and deeply mourned by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.