GREGSON, Clayton: 1877-1910

GREGSON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 5/14/2013 at 16:34:44

Clayton, the only son of William and Jennie Gregson, was born May 13, 1877, and passed away June 4, 1910, aged 33 years and 24 days. Clayton was endowed with a brilliant mind, a splendid physique, a noble christian character, a nature whose goodness radiated and responded to the loving companionship of parents and associates. To the lowly as to all he was ever the same polite, true gentleman, with always a smile of greeting to all. Being deprived in early boyhood from mingling with his companions and from a business career, the nature of which was attended with most intense suffering, his life was a noble sacrifice, his greatest trial the severing of church and Sabbath school attendance, and from the home where as a pretty brown eyed baby boy he came to bless the union and complete the happiness, of found parents, was borne the inanimate form of one who was idolized in that home and loved and respected by everyone in Bentonsport.

His death from heart failure was very sudden and a great shock to all. Reposing in a casket covered with beautiful floral tributes, mutual expressions of love from relatives and friends, Rev. Taylor, from the Presbyterian pulpit, gave an impressive funeral service from the text: "We see through a glass darkly, but now we know in part.: The pall bearers, his young men companions, were W.H. Carter, Jr., Hal Fulton, Torrence Sargeant, Everett Jay, Otto McCracken and Calvin Johnston. A quartet from the Presbyterian choir sang favorite selections. Interment was in Bentonsport cemetery. To the dear mother, who since the death of her husband and father, has through the long years of Clayton's suffering, lavished upon him the most tender care, the sympathy of the entire community is extended and -
"Not now, but in the coming years,
It may be in the Better Land,
We'll read the meaning of our tears,
And there, somtime we'll understand."

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 66, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA