Johnson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ehrhart, Father Jacob May 18, 1862
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Western College Reporter, May 15, 1862
Western College Reporter, May 15,  1862

Obituary-

Father Jacob Ehrhart was born October 17, 1792 and died May 18th, 1862, aged 
69 years, 6 months and 26 days. For many years he labored under the influence 
of disease, though generally able to attend to his ordinary business. He was a 
man of undoubted piety, and almost unexampled earnestness in the cause of the 
Redeemer. For more than 40 years he walked in the footsteps of his master, the 
greater part of which time he labored in the capacity of a local preacher in 
the German language.

Many of the good people of Eastern Pennsylvania, among whom he lived and 
labored the principle part of his life, will long remember his earnest 
devotion to the cause of Christ. The past four years, Father Ehrhart has been 
a citizen of our town, and in that time, he has never been known to make a 
single misstep-his life indeed has been one of comment on the Christian 
religion. To him death has lost all its terror; he met the monster with a 
smile. His last words were: “I am glad that I am going home home” then closed 
his eyes in peace, leaving many kind friends to mourn their loss. But thank 
God they need not mourn as those who have no hope. A discourse was delivered 
on the occasion to a large audience from the 13th, Psalm, 4th verse.


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