PILMER, Robert A. (1853-1923)

PILMER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler, Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/1/2010 at 10:17:23

Winterset Madisonian – May 17, 1923
Winterset, Iowa
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Robert A. Pilmer, son of George and Janet Pilmer, was born at Homeworth, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1853 and passed away at the home of his son, George at Winterset aged 69 years, 5 months and 13 days. Mr. Pilmer came to Iowa in early childhood with his parents, who settled on a farm six miles south of Des Moines, where he grew to manhood and where his parents resided until called to their reward. He received his early education in the country school near his father’s farm and graduated from West Des Moines high school in 1876.

On March 15, 1892, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Weede and to this union were born two sons, George Weede of Winterset and John Miller of Des Moines, who with their mother, live to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father.

He united with the United Presbyterian church at Scotch Ridge at an early age and was active in promoting the interests of the church and served on the building committee during the erection of the church and parsonage, which still stand as a testimony to the energy and faithfulness of the congregation. He remained a zealous member of the United Presbyterian church until the last and was active in church work in every community in which he lived, having devoted the last few years of his life, entirely to service in the educational work of the church, having had with his faithful wife, charge of an important part of this work at Greenville, Tenn. And Hilltop, Ark. He was known among a large circle of friends as an upright business man and a public spirited citizen having been repeatedly honored by election to public office to which he gave the same useful and conscientious attention which he devoted to all of his affairs.

Besides the immediate family he is survived by one brother, George M., of Los Angeles, Calif.; and five sisters, Mrs. Maggie McReynolds of Fairfield, Nebr.; Miss Alice Pilmer of Norwalk, Mrs. Jane Piffer of Indianola, Mrs. Isabelle Durand of St. Charles and Mrs. Mary E. Harbert of Des Moines; three grandchildren and an aged aunt, Mrs. Jennie Sheriff of Carlisle.

Note: Burial was made in the Scotch Ridge cemetery, Warren County, Iowa.