Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-27
Obituary..

George William Fall was born in the
town ofLee, Oneida county, New York,
Nov. 3, 1872, and departed this life in
the afternoon of Sunday, July %, 1900,
full of years and ripe for heaven, in
the sSth year of his age. When nine
years of age, he went with his parents
to Brownville, Jefferson county, New
York, where he lived until Sept. 1915,
when he came to the town of Rock,
in Rock county, Wisconsin. He lived
here about ten years, and moved to
Portage City, Wisconsin, where he
remained two years. In September,
1856, he came from Portage City to
Howard county, Iowa, lived in New
Oregon from 1856 to 1858, and in
Vernon Springs from 1858 to 1869. He
was married Feb. s, 1885, to Hannah
Laura Wilmot, at Brownville, New
York. On Nov. I, 1892, she preceded
him to her heavenly home after a
companionship of nearly 81 beautiful
years.
There were five children born to
them, one son and four daughters.
Those who survive are Mrs. Mary S.
Carver, of Cresco, and Mrs. Adeline f..
Brown, of Ottumwa, Iowa.
Bro. Fall was converted and united
with the Methodist Episcopal Church
in 1929 when II years of age and was
regularly licensed to preach as local
preacher in 1881, being only 10 years
old when entrusted with this sacred
office. Thus for Il years he was a
devoted and efficient christian gentle
man, and for SO years he held this i'm
portant ministerial relation to his
church. What arecord Few persons
indeed, have been so highly favored or
so signally honored.
During his last sickness he was a
great but patient sufferer. His splen-
did constitution long resisted the in.
sidious disease that resulted in his
death, but through all the hours and
days of pain and weakness, he calmly
rested in the sweet will Of his Saviour
and with great delightanticipated the
joy of final release and reunion. Sur
rounded by loved ones, cared for with
atfectlonate tenderness, cheered and
sustained by an unfaltering faith in
God and immortality, he went out
like the closing of peaceful day, like
the setting of an evening sun, like the
passing of holy conqueror into the
supreme but universal glory of the
Heavenly land.
| George w. FALL was great and
good man. Great, not in conspicuous
position, but in the elements that en-
ter into splendor Of character and
success in service. While l may not
presume to measure and pronounce
his worth, can at least express my
delight in his friendship and my keen
appreciation of his goodness. One who
knew him best and longest are most
conscious of your personal loss,
while only those who loved and claim
ed him for their own, can feel the
deep meaning of an irreperable be.
reavement. AS citizen and early
settler, honored and universally es.
teemed; as a man of business, indus.
trious and successful: as a neighbo1
and friend, courteous and kind
as a husband and father, devoted and
affec tionate; as Methodist preacher,
faithful and laborious; as a christian
and churchman, loyal, liberal, con-
sistent and faithful. His influence
will be abiding, his memory cherished,
his legacy priceless. He rests from
his labors and his works do follow him.
Farewell great heart, but not long
farewell: we hope to meet again.
The services were held at the home oi
Mr.. Carver, at 200 P. NJ, Tuesday, con
Quoted by Rev. Holmes and Rev. Heald
Rev. Holmes read the 9lst. Psalm and
offered an earnest and sympathetic
prayer. Appropriate music was render.
ed by selected quartette. Rev. Heald
read memoir and preached most fit.
ting sermon from Job 5-26.
Rev. Heald, at the close of his remarks
called upon Rev. j. l.. Paine, of Fayette
an old time friend of the family and q
former pastor IN Cresco. Mr.. Paine said
in effect as follows.
! cannot but feel that am somewhat
oGs- of place in consenting to say few
words. Last evening when | received
my mail from the postotfice, l noticed a
letter mailed at Cresco and addressed in
the familiar hand of one of the family.
comprehended as by instinct and with a
sort of choking sensation, mentally ejac.
ulated, Brother Fall is dead On read
ing the letter found l was asked to be
here as one of the friends. felt it a re.
lief that was not expected to officiate al
the burial, to come with the care of ex
tended remarks upon my mind; but coulc
set with the friends in the sacredness o
of our mutual sorrow and listen to the
words OF others. In view, however, oi
my long and intimate acquaintance, my
brethren desired me to make few re
marks.
l have known Brother Fall since was
eight years of age. He came to Wiscon
sin in '45; my father came in 1916, anG
we lived on adjoining farms. A yer,
close intimacy at once sprang up be