From: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <iggy29@scican.net>

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Subject: OBITUARY - MOSES MCHARNESS.

Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 5:32 PM

Decatur County Journal

May 9, l90l

The subject of this sketch was born in Lincoln County, England, July 3l,

l824, and died at his home in Lamoni, April 25, l90l, aged 76 years, 9

months and 24 days. He was afflicted with paralysis for fourteen months

preceding his death. June 27, l846, the deceased was married to

SUSANNAH FOREMAN, in England, and to this union seven children were

born, of whom the following survive: MRS. J.N. DRAKE, of Hartford,

Mich.; MRS. MARY WILLIAMS, St. Joe, Mo.; ED MCHARNESS, of Leon; MISS

LAVINIA MCHARNESS, of Lamoni; and MRS. W.O. WILEY, of Bloomington

Township.

Father MCHARNESS came to New York in l856 and was joined by his family a

year later. In the fall of l86l the family moved to Van Buren County,

Mich., where they lived for seventeen years and then located in Fayette

Township of this county. MR. MCHARNESS was a stone mason by trade. He

conducted a store for about five years in Lamoni. He was a man of

ability and strict integrity and filled a number of offices in a very

creditable manner. He served as councilman of Lamoni and was its second

mayor.

In l849 deceased joined the L.D.S. Church and twenty years later, became

identified with the reorganized church. The funeral services were

conducted by J.D. Bennett, assisted by President Smith and A.H. Smith.

Interment occurred in Sweet Home Cemetery, three miles southwest of

Lamoni, where repose the remains of two daughters.

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