MAINE, John F. (1853-1919)

MAINE

Posted By: Karon King (email)
Date: 11/2/2016 at 23:30:31

John F. Maine
(Sep 13, 1853 - Dec 28, 1919)

Advocate Tribune newspaper, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, Jan 8, 1920, p.3

Obituary – John F. Maine
John F. Maine, son of Amos B. and Mary A. Maine, was born in Warren county, Iowa, September 13,1853, and died in Norwalk, Iowa, December 28, 1919, aged sixty-six years, three months and fifteen days. September 17, 1874, he was united in marriage with Emmariller Wallace and to them were born four children, all of whom survive him: Mrs. Nora Davis, of Canyon, Oregon; Mrs. Roberta Heskitt, of Des moines; Mrs. Clara O. Hammon, of Jefferson township, this county; and Ernest A. Maine, of Scio, Oregon. Mrs. Emmariller Maine died July 6th, 1887, and May 30, 1889, he married Fannie Stewart, of Wick, Iowa, and to them were born Alice, who died at her birth and twin daughters, of whom Minnie E. died in March, 1865, aged one and one-half years and Winnie E, who is now the wife of Thomas Perkins, of Prole, Iowa. Of the original family of his parents there are three living: Mrs. Ann E. Springer, of Norwalk; Mrs. Mary Blair, of Englewood, Kansas; and L. L. Maine, of Wick, Iowa. There also survive him sixteen grand children and one great grandchild. All of his life has been spent on a farm except two years in Norwalk and a short time after his first marriage in Kansas. In his early manhood he was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Wick, continuing his membership there till the last years of his life it was transferred to the Methodist Episcopal church of Norwalk, Of a very quiet and unassuming disposition his life was spent in caring for his home and home neighborhood. He loved his home, and family, his neighbors and his church and to them he gave his time, his love and strength and as he turned his face towards the setting sun he found “that at the evening time it shall be light” and requesting an old friend and acquaintance of fifty years to preach his funeral he patiently waited through many days of intense suffering and when the bridegroom came, he gladly went into the marriage feast and the door was shut that he might be safe for all eternity in that abiding place where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. After a short service of prayer and song at the home in Norwalk, the funeral service was conducted by Revs. Lee, of Wick, and Harnard, of Des Moines, at the Wick church. Internment was made in the Wallace cemetery.