Hon. James B. Pease 1817-1905

PEASE, MCCULLOUGH, EVANS, CLARK, CRAWFORD, BROWNLEE

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 2/6/2012 at 07:12:05

HON. JAMES B. PEASE.

OBITUARY SKETCH.

At his home at No. 617 Fourth street, Fort Madison, Iowa, Tuesday, May 9, 1905, at 5:30 o'clock a.m., James B. Pease, aged 88 years, 3 months and 14 days, died.

Funeral services at the Presbyterian church Thursday, May 11 at 4 o'clock p.m., Rev. H. C. Rogers officiating. On the following morning the body will be taken to the Sharon cemetery for interrment.

Hon. James Blakeny Pease was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Janurary 24, 1817. He was educated in the select and common schools. In 1844 he married Miss Elizabeth McCullough and lived on the home farm in Washington county until 1851, when they removed to Lee county, Iowa, settling in Marion township. There the wife died in 1856, leaving five children, of whom three survives, the eldest son, Samuel G. having died of typhoid fever in Memphis, Tenn., during the civil war. Those living are: Frances M., widow of Henry V. Evans; Anna B., wife of Lebbeus Clark of Mills county, Iowa, and John McCullough of Cedar township, Lee county. Mr. Pease purchased, on coming to Iowa, a farm of 320 acres upon which he lived until 1865, when he sold it and the following year purchased a farm in Van Buren county, Iowa. In 1859 he married Miss Catherine L. Crawford, who died in 1865. The following fifteen years were spent in agricultural pursuits in Van Buren county. In 1880 Mr. Pease purchased a home in Fort Madison and has lived here ever since. In 1856 he was elected to represent Lee county in the state legislature and in 1873 was elected from Van Buren county to the state senate on the anti-monopoly ticket. While a member of the legislature he held the position of chairman of the committee of Reform Schools. Since 1890 he has served in the office of justice of the peace, but for the last few years he has lived a retired life. October 17, 1867, he married Mrs. Catherine Brownlee, nee Clark, who survives him. He was a member of the Presbyterian church of which he was an elder forty-five years, and was a charter member of the Sharon congregation and the last of the eight original members. He organized the congregation in 1851 and helped to build the church edifice. There he was elected an elder and served in the same capacity in Fort Madison since 1880. Here he also assisted in building the present church edifice. At one time he was a teacher in the prison Sunday school. He is the last of a family of thirteen children. He was a good man in every sense of the word and died in peace with the world and his Maker - Ft. Madison Democrat.
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Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 3, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IAHistorical Library, Iowa City, IA