Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
May 11, 1893
C. C. Billups and wife and John Billups and wife went to Bellevue
Tuesday to attend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Martha A.
Simpson, who died at the home of her sister there Monday morning,
May 8th. Deceased was aged 62 years. Born in Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, she came to Bellevue, Jackson County, with her parents
away back in 1836 and has resided there ever since, losing her
husband by death about ten years ago. She was a good woman and
leaves several grown children in sorrow.
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DIED-John Davis
A special from Miles under date of the 5th, says that Mr. John
Davis, a brother of Josiah Davis, H. P. Davis of Miles, and
Charles Davis of Sabula, dropped dead in a chair in the post
office at Green Island, Jackson county, Iowa, Friday morning
about 9 o’clock. Mr. Davis has not had good health for some
years, but for the past few days he had felt unusually well. He
walked from his home to the post office, a distance of about half
a mile, and conversed in his usual pleasant manner with the
inmates of the office, when suddenly he fell back in the chair
and was dead. Heart disease was the cause of death. Mr. Davis was
past 60 years old. He has three sons who have reached manhood.
OBITUARY
BERTELSEN- Andrew Bertelsen was born in Schlesweig, Germany, May
1, 1840. In the vigor of young manhood he came to the United
States, finding employment at first with his uncle on a farm near
Miles. Being a young man of intelligence, he soon became
interested in affairs of this country and enlisted in Company G,
8th Iowa at Lyons, joining the Union Army in the War of the
Rebellion and did valiant service for his adopted country and for
which he afterwards suffered blighted eye sight. After his return
from the war, he married in June, 1866, Miss Henrietta Fedderson,
of Clinton County, who with four children, the fruits of their
union, survive a beloved husband and father.
Andrew Bertelsen resided for some time in Minnesota and in Turner
county, South Dakota, following the occupation of miller and
farmer, where he held for a number of years positions of public
trust. He traded for the Rockville Mill property and removed to
this city some four years ago with his family. It was in this
mill, May 7th, 1893, that he met with his sad accidental death.
He was a kind hearted man of rigid honesty and strong in his
friendships, always ready to lend a helping hand to those in want
or distress.
While the deceased had not been a resident of Maquoketa many
years, yet his quiet, unassuming ways and honorable business
methods won for him a large circle of warm friends whose
sympathies go out to the grief stricken widow and children in
their sad bereavement.
The funeral services occurred at the home at 2 o’clock p.m.
Tuesday, Rev. F. M. Archer of the Baptist Church officiating, and
the remains were interred in Mount Hope cemetery. An unusually
large procession followed the remains to their last resting place
led by the Drips Post G. A. R. with muffled drums, and Jackson
Lodge I. O. O. F. While at the grave the latter order rendered
its solemn and impressive cemetery.
[transcribed by K.W., April 2009]