Rev. Joseph Newton Hosier (1852-1916)

HOSIER, PROCTOR

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/24/2022 at 20:50:31

From Nevada Representative August 11, 1916 (page 1)

REV. J. N. HOZIER KILLED
Unusual Accident at Hancock.

Rev. J. N. Hozier, pastor of the Methodist church at Hancock in Pottawattamie county and in former years a well known and much esteemed resident of Nevada, was killed Tuesday morning on the platform of the station at Hancock, and his funeral is conducted this afternoon from the Methodist church in this city.

Mr. and Mrs. Hosier were about starting off, he on a trip to Des Moines to their daughter's and she somewhere else, and he was in the act of picking up their grips for the purpose of boarding the in-coming train, when the train hit a baggage truck that had been set too close to the edge of the platform, and the truck in its turn his him, cutting a deep gash in the side of his head and causing injuries from which he died within a few hours. It was we think about the most sudden, unlooked-for accident that we ever heard of.

The Hoziers were Illinois people, coming to Nevada from near Princeton some thirty-five years ago. He was for several years employed in the Highway printing office in this city and graduated from that office into the ministry, wherein he has been successfully engaged for something like a quarter of a century. Mrs. Hozier is a sister of Mrs. Geo. Proctor of this city, and thy have both kept up in large measure their interest in matters here. Hence is has followed that when the father was so suddenly stricken, the surviving wife and married daughter have brought his body back here for burial. He was about 52 years of age and a man of very great worth in every way.