MYERS, Josiah - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

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J. D. MYERS DEAD

Kingman's entire population was bowed in grief on last Tuesday morning when the sad news was heard that a grand good man -JOSIAH D. MYERS - had passed to his last reward.   Uncle Joe, as he was familiarly known to all, was one of the pioneers of this vicinity and has been a constant workers for the  betterment of the community ever since he became one of its members.   He has been in poor health for several years, but was able to be up and around until a few months before his death.  

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JOSIAH D. MYERS was born in Fountain county, Ind., Nov 22, 1847, died April

19, 1910, aged 68 years, 3 months and 23 days.  He was married to Harriet Alward Nov 7, 1867 and to this union seven children were born-2 boys and 5 girls, all of whom survive him except two daughters who died in infancy.   He joined the United Brethern church in early life and was converted and lived a Christian life, loved and esteemed by all who knew him.  He was a great sufferer for many years and yet he bore it with patience,

never murmuring nor complaining, but was resigned to the will of his Kind Heavenly Father.  Some of his last words were  "O! if I could only go and be at rest then I would be satisfied."   He has gone to rest to suffer no more but has left a vacancy in the home which cannot be filled.  Gone but not forgotten, yet we are comforted in the reflection that our loss is his eternal gain and that he has entered gain and that he has entered into the

saints everlasting rest.  He leaves a wife, five children, eleven grand-children and a host of friends

and neighbors to mourn his loss.  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday by Rev. J. M. McHargue, of

Perrysville, from the Centenniel church, of which he hgad been a member ever since his conversion.  Burial in the cemetery near by.