Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-30
THE PASSING OF A PIONEER
Uncle M. c. Gill Died AT His Home In
Hamlin Station On January %, 1908,
Aged Ninety Years.

Hamlin Station On January %, 1908,
Aged Ninety Years.
Mason G.. Gill one OF the few remain
ing pioneers OF this county and for
thirty-eight years we'll known farmer
of Cass county, residing west of Allan
tic, died at his home near Fl amin Sta
ton, Audubon county, Iowa, Thurs
day January %, 1908, of disease Incl
dent to old age. At his bedside were
his aged wife. his two daughters, Mrs.
Florence Copeland, Mrs. Alice Hens
ley, and his son, George Gill. The
end came peacefully and calmly, so
quietly that the watchers thought that
he was sleeping. Deceased came 70
cass county in 1858, locating near what
is now the town of Lewis and in the
early days he ran a blacksmith shop
there. He followed this pursuit for
some time and later taking up farm
ing; moving, in 1891, to q farm ada
cent to the present. town of Hamlin, in
Audubon county. Mr.. Gill was mem
Der of Veritas Masoic Lodge, Number
Three Hundred Ninety Two, at Audu-
bon, and was in good standing at the
time of death. Masonry was a religion
To him and he attended the meetings
of the lodge whenever possible for
him to do SO, and he believed and lived
in it's teachings.
Mr., Gill was made Mason in Lewis.
Iowa, a number of years before Allan
tic started. He was one of the charter
members of the Atlantic Lodge. Those
present from distance attending the
funeral we're N. H. Lewis and family,
of Walnut, Iowa; Ross Wallace, his
grandson, of Atlantic, Iowa; Mrs.
ellis brother, Polk Byrd, of Fox
Lake, Wisconsin,; Mrs. II. +. Tharp.
of Chicago, Illinois. Besides the wife
and children he issurvived by two sis
tors, Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch, of Fresno,
California: and Mrs. Lydia Baggs, of
Peoria, Illinois. During the early set
Element Of this country Mr.. ellis house
although but log cabin was open to
all in need of shelter.
Mason Carlton Gill was born in
Mason county, Kentucky, April6, 1918,
being one of a family of eleven child
rem, six boys and five girls, all but
two of whom have passed on before
him. His father was William Gill, of
Virginia; and his mother Elizabeth
Moss-Gill, of the same state. His par
ents died of the cholera, then epidemic
in Kentucky, both passing away the
same day, while he was yet a young
boy. He comes of good old Revolu-
tionary stock; his grandfather, Zele
Moss, having served as Captain in
the Continental Army. His father also
served in the Mexican War; since
which time there has been no call for
the country's defense in which Mr..
ellis family has not been represented,
down to the Civil War when his son,
James Gill, enlisted at the age of eigh-
teen and served his country we'll. Mr..
Gill was twice married, the first wife
being Mary E. Apologize. To this
union were born two sons, James
Mathews Gill and Villa Albert
Gill, the latter dying in infancy The
second wife was Mary Jane Byrd, of
Greencastle, Indiana, whom he mar
ried on May 81, 1S49, and who still
survives him. To this union were born
eight children, three sons and five
daughters; one son, Edward Mason
Gill, dying in infancy.
He is survived by his wife and a
large family of children: Mrs. Il. II.
Wallace, whose husband is Consul to
Jerusalem, way over in Asia. and
they are now there; Thomas Gill. of
Extra, Iowa; James Gill, who lives in
the west; Mrs. Lizzie Lewis, of Walnut,
Iowa: Mrs. Florence Copeland, at
Hamlin, Iowa. Mrs. Ella Tharp, of
Chicago, Illinois; George b. Gill, who
lives on the home place; Mrs. Alice
Hensley of Burlington, Wyoming.
| Short funeral services were held at the
home on Saturday about noon and at
one o'clock, afternoon, the funeral
cortege arrived at the Presbyterian
church, in Audubon, where a choir
composed of Miss Gladys Wilson, as
| Soprano: Miss Lucille Cole, Alto; Rev.
| Donald Nj. Grant, Tenor; Mr.. Il. f..
| Green, Basso; with Miss Martha Dunn
presiding at the Pipe Organ; sang:
"When Night Is Near" :" Cast Thy
Burden On The Lord" 6 Refugee"
{" Abide With Me-" soft and low; then
Rev. ID. C. Macintosh, pastor of the
| Audubon Presbyterian church, preach
ed funeral discourse from the Four
teenth Chapter of Job, First and Sec-
ond Verses. At the conclusion OF his
sermon the Masons of Veritas Lodge,
with Rev. Ed 3. Cousins, as Worship
full Master: Mr.. Bert McLeran, Senior
| Warden; w. r. Smith, Junior Warden;
took charge and after short but an
| impressive service in the church the
choir sang " Nearer My God to Thee"
the pail bearers, Messrs. Harm Rice,
George Scott, Dan Thomas, Hans
Fredericksen, Ralph Thomas, w. d..
Stanley. lifted the casket containing
! the remains and bore it to the funeral
! car in waiting; they were formed in
procession and marched out to Maple
Grove Cemetery, accompanied by
about twenty members OF that frater-
nifty, and the beautiful burial service
of that order was gone through with
by the officers of Veritas Lodge and
the members; white leather apron
was deposited upon the coffin or the
departed brother, in the grave, by the
Master; each Mason dropped sprig
of evergreen upon the colin IN the
tomb; the Masons marched back to
town, leaving the mourners alone with
their dead.
EDITOR Ross: Please thank our
neighbors and friends for their kind
ness to us during the sickness and
death of our husband and father; also
the choir who sang; Miss Dunn, who
presided at the Pipe Organ; and the
members of Veritas Masonic Lodge,
Number 1892, of Audubon, Iowa.
Mpo Al ~ 6TTT AMI FAMILY