Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-16
BROTHER OF LATE II. 3. HEN.
DERsHoTT AND UNCLE OF l. c.
HENDERsHoTT DIES IN TEXAS
WAS FORMER OTTUN WAN
Many Years Ago was Active In the
Affairs Of the City and is Well
Known to Older citlzens-Home
Papers Pay Glowing Tribute to the
Aged Pioneer

Charles B. Hendershott, brother of
the late Judge H. B. Hendershott and
uncle OF Judge l.. G.. Hendershott. has
passed away at mis- home in Sherman,
Texas. Mr.. Hendershott was. many
years ago, citizen Of Ottumwa. The
older residents Of the city will remem-
Der him. He was a highly respectable
gentleman, progressive citizen and was
at the time Of his residence here
prominent figure in the affairs of OF.
tunwa.
The Sherman, Texas Democrat"
contains the following:
Death called and Charles Benham
Hendershott answered last evening.
Had he lived until August rs he
would have rounded out his eighty
second year and his faithful consort,
Sarah Hendershott, who has travelled
LIES pathway by his side for one
month more than sixty years and sur
wives him, is just one year his Junior.
For thirty years these octagener-
ians, beloved by all, old and young
have resided at S12 North Willow
street.
There their family, two sons and
four daughters, grew up from child
hood. one by one leaving the shelter
OF the old homestead roof beneath
which there had been only the re-
strain Of love, to establish homes Of
their own.
The surviving children are Oliver
Hendershott, Fort Worth; Mrs Emma
Hawley, Mrs. Clara Theissen, and
Mrs. Alice French OF Sherman and
Mrs. Lizzie Adams OF Cisco.
All were at the deathbed except
Mrs. Adams, who can not reach Sher-
man in time to attend the funeral.
But one of the children has passed
away Chas. s. Hendershott, whose
death occurred at Los Angeles, Call.
fornia.
Chas. Benham Hendershott was
born in Pike county, Illinois, Aug.
25, 1927.
He moved to Iowa in 1874 and in
April, 1847 was married to Miss
Sarah harrison.
He enlisted as a volunteer in the
Mexican war.
When the inter.necine troubles OF
1851 come up, being a partisan dem.
ocrat and a resident Of non-seceding
| state, his open expression of sym
pathy for the south caused him many
inconvenience, even after the close
of the struggle, ending in his coming
| to Texas and casting his lot, as he
| passed the crest of the hill and start
| ed toward life's sunset, among The
people whose cause he loved and IL
whom he and his noble wife and thei1
| children found host of true friends
| Bravely and accomplishing he has
fought the battles Of life, filling the
office Of husband and father in way
worthy of emulation. He has beer
an excellent neighbor and either
Texas can ill afford to lose. Worr
and enfeebled by sheer old age he
never grew old in spirit and he de
lighted in the progress Of the da,
4 and even as he lay upon the bed from
4 which he never arose he evincei
| the kneenest interest in the affairs O
the day, expressing hope for thu
realization Of the expectations of thos,
in the fight for the advancement o
1 Sherman.
While, as a matter of natural law
the family realized the summons
could not at best be far off still thel
grief can not be estimated and Il
! them the sincerest sympathy Of tn,
people goes out In this supremely sax
and solemn hour.
The deceased was consisten
| Christian gentleman and had for
great many years been member o
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
i At this hour the body has BEEF
taken from the residence to tn,
church and the pastor, Rev. B. Wrenl
| Webb, who was summoned home .
perform the last office to the dead, :.
to offlciate and will be assisted b
Rev. ]. M. Binkley of the M. e. churcl
| south, a close. personal friend an
old neighbor of the dead man.
: Thus ends one of the purest, trr
est temporal lives ever lived an
j heaven is to be praised for sparin
so long to earth one whose livin
made the world better by 1t.
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