s/o John & Mary Magdalene (Seabault) Deeds
h/o Margaret (Grim) Deeds
h/o Elizabeth (Tanner)Deeda
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"DEEDS.--John Deeds is no more. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, became religious in early life; emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1842, and settled in Lee county, where he resided till he enlisted in the 37th Iowa Gray Beard Regiment, Co. G, in October, 1862. He was a most faithful and useful member of the M.E. Church for a great many years, and served the same most efficiently for a long period as a class leader and steward. He died in Alton, Illinois, in our hospital, November 26, 1863, of an abscess and erysipelas in the 59th year of age. He left a good home and all the comforts of social life to serve his country, his God, and his kind, in the ranks as a common soldier. Truly, "The post of honor is the private station." And our country cannot be dishonored, or our liberties lost while we have such men to live, and labor, and fight, and die for them. As his life was the most consistent, so his death was the most glorious and peaceful that could be desired. I was with him every day during his last illness, and though his sufferings were most excruciating, he never murmured, but triumphed, and with an unfaltering faith and overflowing joy often praised God aloud, and when the last struggle came his words and countenance showed alike, that his was the "full assurance of hope unto the end." by James H. White, Chaplain 37th Iowa Infantry, Rock Island, Ill., March 16, 1864."
h/o Margaret (Grim) Deeds
h/o Elizabeth (Tanner)Deeda
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"DEEDS.--John Deeds is no more. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, became religious in early life; emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1842, and settled in Lee county, where he resided till he enlisted in the 37th Iowa Gray Beard Regiment, Co. G, in October, 1862. He was a most faithful and useful member of the M.E. Church for a great many years, and served the same most efficiently for a long period as a class leader and steward. He died in Alton, Illinois, in our hospital, November 26, 1863, of an abscess and erysipelas in the 59th year of age. He left a good home and all the comforts of social life to serve his country, his God, and his kind, in the ranks as a common soldier. Truly, "The post of honor is the private station." And our country cannot be dishonored, or our liberties lost while we have such men to live, and labor, and fight, and die for them. As his life was the most consistent, so his death was the most glorious and peaceful that could be desired. I was with him every day during his last illness, and though his sufferings were most excruciating, he never murmured, but triumphed, and with an unfaltering faith and overflowing joy often praised God aloud, and when the last struggle came his words and countenance showed alike, that his was the "full assurance of hope unto the end." by James H. White, Chaplain 37th Iowa Infantry, Rock Island, Ill., March 16, 1864."
s/o John & Mary Magdalene (Seabault) Deeds
h/o Margaret (Grim) Deeds
h/o Elizabeth (Tanner)Deeda
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"DEEDS.--John Deeds is no more. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, became religious in early life; emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1842, and settled in Lee county, where he resided till he enlisted in the 37th Iowa Gray Beard Regiment, Co. G, in October, 1862. He was a most faithful and useful member of the M.E. Church for a great many years, and served the same most efficiently for a long period as a class leader and steward. He died in Alton, Illinois, in our hospital, November 26, 1863, of an abscess and erysipelas in the 59th year of age. He left a good home and all the comforts of social life to serve his country, his God, and his kind, in the ranks as a common soldier. Truly, "The post of honor is the private station." And our country cannot be dishonored, or our liberties lost while we have such men to live, and labor, and fight, and die for them. As his life was the most consistent, so his death was the most glorious and peaceful that could be desired. I was with him every day during his last illness, and though his sufferings were most excruciating, he never murmured, but triumphed, and with an unfaltering faith and overflowing joy often praised God aloud, and when the last struggle came his words and countenance showed alike, that his was the "full assurance of hope unto the end." by James H. White, Chaplain 37th Iowa Infantry, Rock Island, Ill., March 16, 1864."
h/o Margaret (Grim) Deeds
h/o Elizabeth (Tanner)Deeda
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"DEEDS.--John Deeds is no more. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1804, became religious in early life; emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1842, and settled in Lee county, where he resided till he enlisted in the 37th Iowa Gray Beard Regiment, Co. G, in October, 1862. He was a most faithful and useful member of the M.E. Church for a great many years, and served the same most efficiently for a long period as a class leader and steward. He died in Alton, Illinois, in our hospital, November 26, 1863, of an abscess and erysipelas in the 59th year of age. He left a good home and all the comforts of social life to serve his country, his God, and his kind, in the ranks as a common soldier. Truly, "The post of honor is the private station." And our country cannot be dishonored, or our liberties lost while we have such men to live, and labor, and fight, and die for them. As his life was the most consistent, so his death was the most glorious and peaceful that could be desired. I was with him every day during his last illness, and though his sufferings were most excruciating, he never murmured, but triumphed, and with an unfaltering faith and overflowing joy often praised God aloud, and when the last struggle came his words and countenance showed alike, that his was the "full assurance of hope unto the end." by James H. White, Chaplain 37th Iowa Infantry, Rock Island, Ill., March 16, 1864."
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