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- Obituary John Denning Peckham
Note: The following obituary is typed from copies of the original articles in The Hunter Herald on date as referenced. The contents, spelling, and grammar are from the original articles.
J. D. Peckham
J. D. Peckham was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 27th., 1837. Died at this home in Lincoln, Kansas, January 31, 1930. Age 92 years, 11 months, 4 days.
At the age of ten years, Mr. Peckham moved with his parents to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he remained until 20 years of age . Then he moved with his parents, to Appanoose County, Iowa, where he was married to Harriet J. Shrigley, Dec. 24, 1857. He came to Kansas in 1877, where he took a homestead near Hunter, and in the spring of the next year, he returned for his family and settled permanently in Kansas. In march, 1905, he moved to Lincoln where he resided the rest of his life.
During the early days, Mr. ans Mrs. Peckham, experienced the hardships of the life on the pioneer. He drove a team of oxen to this county, and during the first summer they lived in a tent. But through frugality, and hard work, he soon had a comfortable home built on the homestead.
To this union there were born ten children, six of whom preceeded him in death, and together with his faithful wife and companion after 66 years of wedded life passed away April 17, 1924, awaited his coming.
Mr. Peckham was converted at the tender age of 14, and has always remained a constant follower of his blessed Savior and a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. To the very last, his faith remained firm, always enjoying to the utmost, a prayer of words of Christian character. Thus he has left a heritage to his loved ones, that can never be forgotten. Through vasion, trials, afflictions, as well as prosperity, joys and busy days, his faith never wavered and was always a Christian gentleman and friend to all.
He leaves to mourn his departing, Geo. A. Peckham and Mrs. Rosa Coil both of Lincoln, J. E. Peckham of Hunter, is still on the old homestead, and Mrs. Hattie Taylor also of Lincoln. Also he leaves 29 grand children, and 32 greath grand children, and a host of other relatives and friends.
Mother and Father have both gone from us. But we find peace in our souls in the words of the poet;
And now from out of the glory
In living clouds of light
The old familiar faces come
Beaming on his sight:
The early lost, the early loved,
The friends of long ago
Companions of his pilgrimage
And conflicts here below.
They parted here in weakness
In suffering and in gloom;
They met amid the freshness
Of Heaven's immortal bloom
Henceforth in ever-during bliss
To wonder hand in hand
Beside the living waters
Of that still and sinless land.
O who can tell the rapture
Of those to whom 'tis given
Thus to renew the bonds of earth
Amid the bliss of Heaven.
---Anonymous.
Funeral services were held in the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, Feb. 2. Burial in the Lincoln cemetery, Rev. Roy D. Plott in charge.
From: The Hunter Herald, Hunter, Mitchell County, Kansas February 14, 1930, page 1, on microfilm at the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS. and reprinted by the Herald after original publication in the Lincoln (KS) Sentinel.
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1837 - 1930 (92 years)