Worth County IA Archives Obituaries.....Kenison, Jonathan December 14, 1903
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Worth County Index; Volume 23, Number 3; Thursday, 24 December 1903
 Jonathan Kenison.
A pioneer of this great and good state, after a residence within its borders of 
50 years, departed this life Dec.14th, 1903, at the home of his son, Byron 
Kenison, near Bolan, Worth county, Iowa, at the advanced age of 88 years, 3 
months and 14 days. He was born August 20th, 1815, near Chateaugay, Franklin 
county, New York, where he grew to a sturdy manhood amid the privations and 
hardships of that pioneer day. He was married in 1839 to Sarah Ann Chase, and 
together they began the battles of life and the rearing of a home that would be 
an honor to their country. To them were born nine children of whom three have 
passed to the great beyond. In 1850 the family left their native home and 
emigrated by the primitive methods of that day to the then far western country 
Illinois. In 1853 they pushed still farther westward and settled in Allamakee 
county, Iowa, and later in Blackhawk county; then Grundy and last in Butler 
county, where the wife and mother died and was buried, in 1866, at the age of 
50 years. In each of these places new homes were started and the virgin forests 
and prairie soil resounded with the ringing of the ax and lowing of the oxen as 
they turned the rich soil bringing fruit to the incessant labor of these hardy 
pioneers. During his residence in Grundy county he answered the call of his 
country and spent eighteen months in helping to subdue the rebellion. In 1882, 
Mr. Kenison came to live with his son Byron in Worth county, where he has since 
resided. Four sons, two daughters, twenty-nine grandchildren, fourteen great-
grandchildren besides many other relatives mourn the loss of him who has 
departed. He was a man esteemed and respected by all who knew him. The funeral 
took place at the home and was conducted by Rev. A.B. Curran, pastor of the 
Methodist church at Northwood, and Rev. E.H. Heverly, pastor of the United 
Evangelicag church at Bolan. Those from a distance to attend the funeral were 
Matt Kenison and wife and Ed Kenison and family, of Mason City. Two sons and 
two daughters were unable to be present. E.H.H..


Source : Worth County Index
.        Scammon & Gillkup, Publishers
.        Volume 23, Number 3, Page 8, Column 3
.        Thursday, 24 December 1903
.        Transcribed by slkm on 17 October 2014



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