George LaFayette Minear

MINEAR, SEVIER, BAIRD

Posted By: Karen DaPra (email)
Date: 5/7/2004 at 02:32:10

George LaFayette Minear was born in a log cabin on the banks of the Des Moines river near Keosauqua, Iowa, April 27, 1868.

As a farmer lad he grew to young manhood with such advantages as the country school afforded. In 1888 he was brought by his father to Mt. Pleasant and enrolled as a student in the Iowa Wesleyan Academy, from which he graduated in 1891 and finished his college course in the class of 1895 with a degree in Bachelor of Science. After a brief period in the active ministry he entered Boston School of Theology receiving his S. T. B. in the year 1901. In 1909 he was worthily honored by Hedding College which conferred upon him the honorary degree of Dr. of Divinity.

On Sept. 4th, 1895, Dr. Minear was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Sevier of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, forming a most happy comradship [sic] which was to him the chief solice [sic] and inspiration thru the anxieties and labors and sacrifices which fall to the experiences of a Gospel minister. Children coming to bless the home were always the object of his most loving and prayful solicitude as a father.

At Oskaloosa Brother and Sister Minear passed thru deep sorrow by the loss of the youngest child David, 6 years old, and but little more than one year ago, the elder daughter, Miss Gladys Minear, whom her parents had dedicated to God to become a missionary, after a brief but beautiful period of labor in South America fell in sacrifice to her consecration. With loving tribute by christian friends on the field which she had chosen to spend her life, she was buried far from the parental home at Santiago, Chili, on July 10, 1923. Four stalwart sons and one daughter remain to revere the character of a noble father and to share with the bereaved mother, the sorrows of their common loss and the problems of the future. There also remains two brothers and two sisters: Mr. Bruce Minear of Denver, Colo., Mr. Gus Minear with Miss Anna of Kilbourne, Iowa, and Mrs. Ida Baird of Coffeeville, Kans.

(Photocopy of this obit found on page 214 of Obit Book "A" of the Van Buren County Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in Mar 2001. Name of newspaper and date of obit not given.)

I am NOT related and am posting this obit for those who may find this person in their family history.

(Originally posted 14 Apr 2001)

NOTE: I have additional information on Minear and Sevier families. George Lafayette Minear died 6 Oct 1924 according to what I have.