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THK DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN.Fairfield Tr., Jackson Co., Nov. ‘28, 1870.To the Editor cf The Sentinel:Having frequently r^nd I t your paper requests for local items of news, I send you the following:On Friday last the quiet of our rural life \va* ! somewhat startled by the report that John Brown-j lee Rowley h*.i died that morning. He had settled ! 1 in this neighborhood nearly twenty-eight years ago, and had resided whero he died over twenty five ‘ ears. H:s sickness was short, as he was working as usual on the Monday previous. The skill and efforts of two attending physician* were unavailing, lie ha l been a member of the M. Ik Church for sov-err.l years before fettling in Iowa, and continued a leading and efficient member until his death. The funeral s rvices were solemnized on Sunday, at 10 j o'clock a. m , at the school house near by. The fu-1 uoral sermon was preached I y Mr. Kimball, of Io.va 1 township, from the text revelations, chap. xiv, v.13. The sermon embraced a body of divinity suit-! ! ably adapted for the benefit of his audience, but entirely destitute of that fukonie panegyric generally served out on such occasion*, the preacher merely referred his audience to t'le life of the deceased as being 1 is living epmtle read of al . Viewing the vast concourse assembled—numbering hundreds— it would indicate a* if ’he surrout ding inhabitants hr.d nearly ail come to pay their respects for the dead by attending the funeral. The place of interment is nearly two miles east of the school* house, and when the arrangement of the vu*t crowd was completed, the hearse was put in motion and fo-lowed by the weeping ari l sympathizing throng,I n carriages, wagon*, and other \ :hicles. Tie* pageant w as displayed in a erring of teams about half j a mile long, followed by many on horseback. Arriving iu the vicinity of the burning ground, your corresp* ndent felt the beggary of bis ability to describe i;s grandeur, L office to say the cemetery l* i'n the top of a natural mound, w hose base is washed on the west and nor:h sod east by the Maqtiok^ta river; and from the river's bank and up the s.cpe spread tf «• royal lt;»uk and trees indigenous to that sequent red nook, far removed from noise and smoke, has escaped th * force lt;7 the woodman's stroke, ex- ; cept for the hear-e and pedestrian's walk, around ; the sweep on to the peak «f that lovely spot, which may have been for ages—for anything known to the contrary by your correspondent the burying ground of the original natives, dating their epoch soon after ilie drapersi*n spoken of in Genesis chap. xi v. s. “So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon tli? face of all the earth, and might haveeon-! tinned r.s their bur) in ' place down the ages until ! disinherited by the present race, and is now consc*! crated a* their burying ground, and may socontin-i ue f*#r ages yet to come until disinherited (may be) by some unknown race that may yet appear. —One word by your correspondent respecting the depart td. That Bcrivdure was remarkably fulfilled towards him, found In Proverbs chap. xvi v. 7: “When a man’s way’s please the Lord he maketh his onerules to be at peace with him. Av Observer.
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Maquoketa Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 08, 1870
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