Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Cortner, Henry Joseph 1929
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Payette Enterprise 11-7-1929
Payette Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, November 7, 1929
 
OBITUARY OF H. J. CORTNER
 
Henry Joseph Cortner was born May 3, 1854, near Farmland, Ind.  He was next to 
the youngest of a large family, all of whom have passed on except two 
brothers, Rev. J. R. four years older and Levi two years younger, both 
residing in Indiana.  Three brothers and three sisters preceded him in death.
 
They were of a sturdy pioneer stock that hewed their way through the forests 
and helped to build the great commonwealths of Indiana and Minneapolis.
 
Mr. Cortner's first marriage was of a few short years, having one son that 
lived a short time.  His second marriage was blessed with six children, three 
daughters dying in infancy.  A son Mearl M. lives in Detroit, a son LaVern in 
Blackfoot and a daughter Mrs. C. R. Lowery resides near Boise.  There are 
seven grandsons and two granddaughters who with his bereaved companion and 
many other relatives and friends will miss him for his was a strong character 
for righteousness and he was beloved by all.
 
He was a high-school professor until about thirty years of age, when because 
of failing health he changed from the damp climate of Indiana to that of 
Minnesota.  He purchased one of the most fertile farms in the big woods of the 
Mississippi valley, 125 miles northwest of Minneapolis.  By continued hard 
work in the 18 years residing there he cleared 100 acres of heavy oak, iron 
and basswood land so that a binder could be used over the land.
 
After residing there 18 years his health again failed and another change of 
climate was sought.  That section of Idaho known as "God's Country" was the 
place selected.  For 15 years he lived on a farm near Payette.  He liked his 
new home in the farther west and seemed to have obtained a new lease on life.  
In 1917 he sold his farm and purchased property in the Boise and Hagerman 
valleys, having made his home in the latter place the greater part of the time 
since.  His health seemed to be even better in Hagerman valley, with its 
health filled spring water and drier climate.  He often said he was willing to 
spend the remainder of his life here, which he did.  After completing a full 
day's labor, at the dawn of the first day of October, without even a struggle 
he quietly slipped away to join the throng he so much loved to sing and talk 
about.  The slumber was peaceful and the waking must have been happy.  Those 
who knew him are familiar with his strong convictions for right things.  He 
became a Christian early in life and always maintained his strong faith in God 
and the work of the kingdom.  He, with his family were member so the Christian 
church, but for convenience united with any Evangelical church that might be 
near, having been members of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches.  He 
was ordained an elder of the Presbyterian church of Payette in 1905, and had 
been teacher of the Methodist Bible class most of the time since he came to 
the Hagerman valley.  His greatest delight was in Christian service.
 
He was the oldest person actively engaged in farming in Hagerman valley, 
farming the 40 acre farm where he lived at the time of his death.
 
Mr. Cortner was buried in Morris Hill cemetery, Boise, after funeral services 
by Rev. Crosby Ross, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, where Mr. 
Cortner held his church membership.  Services were also held at home at 
Hagerman by Rev. Earl Officer, pastor of the M. E. church where Mr. Cortner 
worshiped and taught the adult Bible class almost all the time since going to 
Hagerman. -- Gooding Leader. 

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