TEN EYCK, Giles K.: Died 1910

TEN EYCK, BLINK, SELLLER

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**Handwritten: St. Line Dem. Thurs. 29 Sept. 1910

DEATH OF G.K. TEN EYCK
Old and Eccentric Citizen and Pioneer Gone

Giles K. Tenycke was born in Albany county, N.Y., May 19, 1817, and died Sept. 24, 1910, aged 93 years, 4 months and 5 days. He died in Kansas City, and was brought to Lebanon via Cantril Sept. 25, and taken to his old home just east of Lebanon occupied at present by Ned Harrison. The funeral was from there, conducted by Rev. Tennant, and he was buried on his farm a short distance from the residence where rest a wife and three children.

In 1846 he bought the farm of 200 acres in Chequest township and in 1847 he returned to Albany and was united in marriage with Christina Blink, and returned to Lebanon, where he ever afterwards lived. They had four children who died in childhood. His wife died in 1852 and in 1855, Jan. 20, he married Rosanna E. Seller. By this union there were four children. Three died in childhood and one is left, O.E. Ten Eycke.

Feb. 9, 1896, he mourned the death of his wife. Since then he has retained his home at the old place, spending much of the time with his son, O.E. at Pulaski and for the last few years at Kansas City. In the last several years in going to his son's he walked back and forth between Cantril and Lebanon.

Giles Ten Eyck lived the simple life in all his habits. Temperate industrious and frugal and eeonomical(sp), he accumulated a reasonable surplus. For a long time he had been a money lender, but was not a usurer, because when the legal rate was ten per cent he loaned at six and eight. His theory was that it is best to charge a rate that the borrower can pay and have a profit left. Honesty was his motto and doing right his religion. He was a liberal supporter of schoo's(sp) and churches. In politics and principle he was an old school democrat. It was seldom that he gave offense and was equally slow to become offended. Disappointment, reverses, losses, and even bereavement seemed never to discourage him; at all times calm, considerate philosophical, both in prosperity and adversity.

The writer had not an intimate personal acquaintance with Mr. Ten Eyck and has in the last thirty five years gleaned the above from others who have known him for a much longer time.

He is now numbered with many other patient, brave and courageous men and women who have helped in building up one of the great commonwealths of the world, three of whom Adren Casady, J.M. De Hart and the subject of this sketch within two weeks and radius of three miles have surrendered to the grim monster.
W.A. JONES.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book G, Page 219, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA