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Gone to Best.0aidOn last Tuesday the mortal remainsof Uncle Jesse Dale were borne to their last resting place near the town of Maloy, Ringgold county, Iowa, followed by a large number of persons who hold him in high esteem as ft friend and good man while Jiving. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Bazwell Turner, at 1 o’clock Monday morning in the eiglity-sixth year of liis life. Funeral services were conducted from the residence by Roy.^ John Evans*. of . JlieBaptist church.Jesse Dale was born in Madison county, Kentucky, Apr. 14, 1803, and was married to Elizabeth Dowdea in Fob*, 1823. He moved to “Woolford county, 111., in 1829, and, it being about the time of the Black Hawk war, he enlisted as a private and served until peace was restored. Ho then engaged in the business of entering land aud selling it to persons seeking homesteads in the west and was quite wealthy when ho came to Bedford in the summer of 1854* He entered the quarter section on the west of Bedford and fitted it op for a home in his old age. This ho sold to his son, John, nearly twenty years ago and purchased property in the town where he has since resided. Ho was the father of eleven childrenr only one of whom,Mrs. Bazwoll Turner, survives. His aged wifo still occupies their home property but ia quite enfeebled by age.In 1864 he joined the 20th Iowa Infantry, known as the Gray Beard Regiment, and seryed till fcho close of the*Pc, m39, ash. thtn-foron-goow* to as 'ce-ite. \nd im-are crs, big raft i all rc licks, orsaThlt; party temafbyDcans, tion t the them ciden the p take. Repi lie ficonnThewoultlfulrosftjHire-tion. crati beer den1paycircahi|cutitulu oy ’ failoy;can wn;is tbii:infrctitiTLhaanhissonierswar.Wo wish to say of Undo Jesse, with whom wo have boon on friendly and intimate terms for more than thirty j m* years, that ho was a good man. He m; entertained nono but kindly feelings I frlt; toward everybody and leaves not an oi: enemy behind* Ho was not a religious hi man, in tlio common acceptation of that i of term, but lie was a faithful husband, a oi kind and indulgent father und his lioarfc fa beat true to fcho welfare of his race. He ei never joined a church but believed in I «i practical religion and the goodness of an nllwise Providence, • On his death- k bed his religion failed him not and ho I a* approached the grave with an unfalter- j I iug trust, like one who fears not to e meet fcho consequences of a life well j b spent. ^
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South West Democrat
Bedford, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 24, 1888
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Susan S.
IL, USA 28 Jul 2016
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