Rev. William PRESTON

PRESTON, HELMS, YOUNG, DUNHAM, WINTER, RISING, FOSTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/5/2016 at 19:04:11

April 26, 1833 ---- June 10, 1905

Last Friday Rev. E. J. Helms, pastor of the Morgan Memorial church, of Boston, Mass., arrived on the noon train with the remains of his father-in-law, Rev. Wm. Preston. Several months ago Mr. Preston had planned his affairs here so as to go to Boston and spend the summer with his daughter, Mrs. Helms, and family. He was with them hut a few days before he was attacked with a severe illness, brain fever set in, and finally the fearful pneumonia suddenly released him and he passed away on Saturday, June 10.

Wm. Preston was born in Delaware county, Indiana, April 20, 1833, moving with his parents while quite young to Des Moines, Iowa. Arriving at manhood, he moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, secured land and passed thru the experiences of our pioneer settlers of the northwest. On January 1, 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Julia M. Young, of Fort Dodge, Iowa. In 1867 he entered the Des Moines Conference as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1872, by division of territory, became one of the original members of the Northwest Iowa Conference. In 1892 he was superannuated and moved to our city, which has been his home over since.

The funeral last Sunday afternoon, the 18th inst., was well attended, the M. E. church being filled with the many old neighbors and friends assembled to pay their last token of respect for the deceased. The choir rendered excellent music and favorite selections of the deceased. Rev. J. W. Lothian, Presiding Elder of the district, and Dr. Hastings, the pastor of the church, rendered tributes of praise to the ministerial life of the deceased brother with whom they had associated for many years, after which the remains were taken and placed side of those of his companion in life and oldest daughter in our city cemetery.

The two daughters, unable to be present at the funeral, were represented by their husbands, Rev. E. J. Helms, of Boston, and Milo Dunham, of our city; who, with Mrs. Rev. C. B. Winter, of Eagle Grove, Mrs. E. R. Rising, of Des Moines, (sisters of Mrs. Preston), and Mrs. J. A. Foster, of LuVerne, Iowa, who for many years had lived in their family, occupied the position of mourners and relatives of the deceased and received the sympathy of his many surviving friends.

TIMES GAZETTE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
June 22, 1905

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[Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Eagle Grove, Iowa]