Mark C. Thatcher 1802-1883

THATCHER

Posted By: Volunteer - Cathy Joynt Labath
Date: 4/11/2003 at 21:45:17

Keosauqua Republican Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa Thursday, Feb 22, 1883

A PIONEER GONE- Mark C. Thatcher was born in Virginia, Nov. 11, 1802, and died in Vernon, Iowa, Feb. 14, 1883. Funeral services wee held in the Christian church in South Keosauqua on Tuesday, Feb. 20, Eld. A.H. McCrary conducting the services and delivering an appropriate address after which the body was laid away in the upper Keosauqua cemetery. Nine children are living, eight sons and one daughter. Rebecca, wife of D.P. Hillis, of Vernon was with her father during the last years of his life. The sons are Jonathan, Ezekiel, Aaron, Richard, Isaac, Amos, William H.II., and Thomas, the combined ages of the children living being 450 years. Ezekiel's home is in California and he could not be present, but Thomas came from his home in Kentucky and William and Amos from Kansas to pay their last respects to the father they loved so well.