DEHART, Andrew G.: 1866-1898

DEHART, LORTON

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Date: 8/1/2013 at 17:03:20

ANDREW G. DEHART.

Died, at his home near Mt. Sterling, Monday evening, April 18, 1898, Andrew G. DeHart, aged 31 years 3 months and 28 days. The deceased was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George De Hart and was born near Vernon, this county, December 20, 1866, and except such time as he was from home attending school his entire life was spent in the near this vicinity of his birth place. It had been the valued privilege of the writer hereof to have known this young man personally and well for the whole of the thirty-one beautiful years God gave him here before he called him home.

His boyhood years, filled with lofty aspirations and high ideals, were the certain prophecy of that splendid manhood all who knew him loved and admired in his later life. The manly boy, pure in character and loving in disposition, became the manly Christian man, esteemed and trusted as a citizen, tenderly loved as a son and brother, as a husband adored; earth is poorer because of his passing but heave has been enriched because of his entrance there.

During the winter of 1884-45, under the pastorate care of Rev. F. Stevens, he was converted and united with the Mt. Sterling Methodist Episcopal church and from thence forward continued to march under the banner of the cross, adorning the gospel of the Son of God by an upright, consistent Christian life until "God's finger touched him and he fell asleep." His chosen vocation in life was teaching. For this work he was fully equipped, having completed a full course and graduated with honor at Iowa State Normal School and so far as he had entered the field as an instructor had been eminently successful.

February 7, 1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Della Lorton who, with his father, brother and two sisters, remain behind in life to bless his memory. His funeral took place from the Center Chapel M.E. church on Wednesday afternoon, April 20, conducted by Rev. C.W. Wilson, assisted by Rev. Eyestone and the Center Chapel choir. Gentle hands, prompted by loving hearts, covered his casket with wreaths of flowers, and thus the precious oust(?) was laid to rest in Center Chapel's beautiful city of the silent dead.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 171, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA