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From: Steffani Kennedy <>
Subject: DECATUR COUNTY JOURNAL-1886
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 19:26:45 -0500


Thought I'd post another obituary that I came across today. Nancee
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OBITUARY
DIED--At his residence in Eden Township, Decatur County, Iowa, February
ll, l886, JAMES F. GAMMON, after protracted illness of some four weeks
with disease of kidney and liver, which seemed to baffle the skill of
his physicians.

He was born in Knox County, State of Tennessee, June l6, l825, and was
in the sixty-first year of his age. He moved to Indiana with his father
in the year l828 and remained there till l848, at which time he came to
Iowa and settled in Wapello County, but shortly after located in Monroe
County, and in the year l852 was married to ARMELDA E. MYERS, and moved
to Decatur County in the spring of l854 and settled on the farm where he
died.

The fruits of his marriage were eight sons and three daughters, all of
whom survive him to mourn his death. All of his sons and one daughter
and his wife were at his bedside when he breathed his last, which was as
quiet as the sleep of an infant.

He was a man of broad and liberal views and of positive convictions, was
always willing to defend what he believed to be the truth, but
charitable to all who might differ with him. Reason being his guide his
desire was to so live that to rest with mother earth that those who
should survive him might be better qualified to live in harmony with
nature's laws. His wife has lost an ever kind and faithful husband, his
children an affectionate and loving father, and the community a kind and
obliging neighbor.

His remains were followed to their last resting place, in Eden Prairie
Cemetery, by a large concourse of friends and neighbors, and was buried
in compliance with his wishes, without any funeral ceremonies.

W.E.G.

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