Christopher Parrott Page (1822-1909)

PAGE, WHITE, MCLAIN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/30/2017 at 14:02:21

From Nevada Representative May 14, 1909 (page 3)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF C. P. PAGE

Christopher Parrott Page died at 11:20 Tuesday at the home in this city of his son A. J. Page, aged 87 years and 22 days. Mr. Page had been failing in health for several weeks, and to his family and friends it had been apparent that he was yielding to the weight of his years, and his death therefore occasions no surprise, but rather the sentiments which are natural when a well spent life is seen to come to its inevitable, peacefully and after the work of this world has long been done.

Mr. Page was born in Marshall county, Virginia, on April 19, 1822, being the sixth of the eleven children of Nathaniel and Marshall Page. He left the parental home when he was sixteen years of age a striking out for himself, went to Morgan county, Ohio where he married there on February 28, 1847, to Miss Sarah Ann White, she and her parents being from Susquehana county, Pennsylvania. They continued to reside in Ohio until 1855, when they emigrated to Iowa and Story county and located upon an eighty-acre piece of land which he entered from the government in Richland township near Johnson's Grove and continued to own until his death. He bought other land adjoining, and they remained upon the farm until her death in 1876 and until his removal with his son Jay to Nevada when the latter assumed the duties of county recorder in 1899. For the past ten years Mr. Page has had his home with his son in this city and here he has died as stated on May 11, 1909. Mr. and Mrs. Page had six children of whom only two survive, Irene, Mrs. John McLain of Cedar Falls and A. J. Page of this city.

Mr. Page was one of the sturdy pioneers of this county, and he is one of the last of those who came here in time to settle upon government land. he came here at the age of thirty-three, and he lived here for fifty-four years. He became a part of the Johnson's Grove settlement, and he contributed his fair share toward the development of that neighborhood He was a man of sterling character, whose sympathies ran uniformly and strongly upon the moral and progressive side of things, and he was esteemed in life and will be honored in death.

The funeral was conducted at ten o'clock this Friday morning from the Lutheran church by the pastor, Rev. J. N. Lentz and the interment will be in the old burying ground at Johnson's Grove, where his wife has slept for nearly a third of a century.