The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-09-05

ford University, expecting to finisl
the course next year.
Mr.. Baker went to the Hawaiian
trip last May, but suffered from an at
tack of typhoid fever few days at.
ter reaching his destination. His III
ness reached until it terminated fatally
July 25. He Is survived by his par
ents, sister and four brothers, all
living at Hillside. While in the nos
pital before his death, his thoughts
were continually of lone AID he Of
ten expressed his wish that he could
soon recover so that he might return
to his parents in Oregon. He was a
promising law student and was about
to enter upon brilliant career after
hard struggle for an education, and
it seemed doubly hard for his rela-
tives that mis- life should be nipped
in the bud wnel he was thousands of
miles away from friends and relatives.
He was buried at Honolulu July 29.
MEREDITH.-Jame Meredith, son
of Jesse and Luzena Meredith, was
born near Cadiz, neary county, Ind,
on the LIST day of September, 1854.
While yet babe his parents moved
to Spiceland, indiana, where they re-
NAMED till 1865, when they moved to
Iowa aad settled near Lynnviile. Here
the boy attended the common schools
and the Friends Academy aad grew
to manhood.
His mother died in 1869, when he
was about fourteen years old. n 1879
he went to Oregon and took a claim
near Pineville, where he lived for
| twenty years and until the last sick
ness of his father, when he returned
and remained mere until the death OF
his fatherqin 1899. He tnen returned
| to Oregon and remained there about
five years, returning to Iowa about
| two years ago. For several months
ne was in Oskaloosa and then went
to Des Moines, where, on the Sth day
of the past month he was taken ser
| iously i'll and after six days of suffer.
| ing passedato the unseen and eternal
| beyond metne a4th day of August
1907, at the ageEof SO years, IL months
| and 10 days.
! He was b.rtn-rlght member Of
the Friel IS church and in 1877 waS
born into the Kingdom of God.
/ While her, ing STOCK on the noun
taias of Oregon he wrote his sister
Melissa Davis, that there was moth
Ing SO good and glorious as to live
near God" And when she went t.
his dying bed she asked him IL ne was
still living in the same way as wher
he wrote, ana he answered that h
was. she then said to him, "You arr
very sick, if there is anything to 10 Il
should be done quickly" The an
swer was, everything is settled. l
Is all right" He thea dropped o.
J, into sleep and when he awoke,
smile was upon his face and ne said
Eyes, in God we rust"
! He had five brothers and four sis
, ters, viz: c. o. OF Given, Ie., Frank
q lin, of Traverse City, Mich, joan, G
l Des Moines, Ia, Marshall, of Perry
! Ia, Clarkson, of Oskaloosa, Ia, Mrs
Howerton and Mrs. Lewis Davis, o
Lynnville and Mrs. VIM. Hibbs, O
Plano, ILL.,, Mr.. Lizzie Howertoa hay
ing passed over to the other shore.
Mr.. Meredith was an indus+riou
man, dutiful son and a kind and a.
= fectioaate brother honest in all nj
dealings and associations with nj
fellow men. Let US emulate his VII
tues.
: The remains were brought to tn
! home of his sister, Mrs. Lewis Davis
on Thursday and the funeral service
were held in the Friends church a
= ten o'clock Friuay, conducted by l.. L
= Bufkin, assisted by Mrs. Jennie Kirb
, and flterment took place in Ia
|, Friends cemetery.
All tne brothers and sisters wer
present except Charles Franklin an
u Mrs. Hibbs.-Lynnville Star.