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Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, August 31, 1871, Page 3.
Died--At his residence in Ironton, Mo., on Saturday, the 26th inst., Mr. W. H. PARSONS, in the 41st year of his age.
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Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, June 25, 1868, Page 3.
Death of Dr. Dorastus Peck.
It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of Dr. DORASTUS PECK, long a citizen of Ironton. His sickness was of long duration and caused him much severe pain and suffering, which he bore with becoming fortitude and resignation. He died on Thursday, the 18th inst., of disease of the lungs in the 65th year of his age, and ws buried with Masonic honors, Friday, the 19th inst., in the neat and quiet cemetery belonging to that order, and situated just east of the city. There let him calmly and peacefully rest until the bonds of death shall be broken and the victims of that King of terrors shall arise to new life, liberty and light.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, July 2, 1868, Page 3.
DORASTUS PECK, M.D., who departed this life at 6:12 P.M., June 18th, 1868, was a native of New York; born August 23d, 1803, in Otsego County; and married in Onondaga County of the same state, at the age of 22 years, to Miss Rosella Park. He commenced the practice of medicine when 23 years old; and emigrated to Ohio, settling in Lick County, in the year 1837. From here he removed in the fall of 1841, to the then Territory of Iowa and settled in Keosauque, Van Buren County. Here in 1846 he lost his wife. In 1850, he married again, and in 1859, removed to Missouri and located in the town of Ironton. His health became bad in the spring of 1867, and continued to decline until death came and released the sufferer.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, Thursday, July 11, 1895, Page 4.
In Memoriam.
Died--At the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hay, Brunot, Mo., May 7, 1895, MARTIN FAYETTE PEASE, aged 72 years, two months, and twenty-one days. Martin Fayette was born in Connecticut in the year of 1823. In the year of 1839 he, with his parents, came to Missouri, and in 1866 joined the Methodist church and lived through all the troubles and afflictions of this world a consistent happy Christian life.
The sufferings which ended in his death began eleven months ago, and on Tuesday morning, May 7th, surrounded by his relatives, his spirit took its flight to the bright celestial home above, where suffering is no more. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his departure. While is is our loss it is heavens gain.
By the grace of our Father in Heaven we will all meet him at the right hand of God, where parting is no more.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, November 3, 1892, Page 5.
DIED--At the residence of Thomas Johnson, Ironton, Mo., at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning, October 26th, 1892, Mrs. ELLEN F. PECK, relict of the late Dr. D. Peck, aged 68 years, 11 months and 23 days. The funeral from the Presbyterian church Thursday at 2 o'clock P.M. was largely attended. The deceased was an old resident of the Valley and leaves a number of children and legion of friends to mourn her demise.
Iron County Register, Ironton, Missouri, July 29, 1943
MOTHER OF LOCAL MINISTER...DIED IN ST. LOUIS JULY 21ST
Mary E. Pinkley was born October 16, 1878, near Glover, Missouri, and departed this life Wednesday, July 21, 1943, at the age of 64 years, 9 months and 5 days.
She was united in marriage to Robert Lee Lewis on December 27, 1897. To this union were born three children, Everett, Burland who preceded her in death, and Ellis Lewis. Mr. Lewis died February 5, 1906. She reared her two sons to manhood on a farm on Carver Creek.
On July 13, 1926, she was again married to Finice Winder and they made their home in St. Louis for a number of years prior to her death. Besides the devoted husband, she is survived by two sons, Rev. Everett Lewis of Ironton, Mo.; Rev. Ellis Lewis, of Wellston, Mo.; one step-son Lester Winder, one step-daughter, Florence Haggon, St. Louis, Mo.; eleven grandchildren, one sister, of Grass Range, Montana, and a host of friends.
She was converted early in life and later united with the Church of the Nazarene at Sabula, Mo. In October, 1941, she was received into the Golden Gate Church of the Nazarene in St. Louis, where she lived a faithful and loyal member until He, who doth all things well, transferred her to her eternal Home.
The greatest day of her entire life was in the year 1940 when both her sons were ordained into the ministry at Poplar Bluff, a moment she ever held sacred. We will miss her, yes, but our loss is heaven's gain.
The body was brought to Norman White & Sons Chapel Friday morning where it lay in state until one o'clock in the afternoon at which time the concourse made its way to Carver Creek where funeral services were held from Upper Carver Creek Church at 2 p.m. in charge of her pastor, Rev. O.C. Granger of St. Louis, and interment was in the cemetery near-by.
The Register tenders sincere sympathy to the family of this good woman in their sad and irreparable loss.
Submitted by Linda Lewis
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