Bureau County IL Archives Obituaries.....More, Jonas Hamilton 1828-1896
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Jonas Hamilton More--Passes Peacefully Away After a Lif's Work Well Done.

One of Tiskilwa's Oldest and Most Respected Citizens-With the Autumn Leaves 
Falling Around Him He is Laid to Rest.

J.H. More is dead.  Last Saturday morning the news came, and although not 
unespected, it shocked the entire community.  His health had been failing 
for several weeks, but he was hopeful until near the end.  Friday morning 
he took his bed, and remarked to his wife that as the Autumn leaves were 
falling so he was going.  Saturday morning he was much worse, and friends 
were telegraphed for, about at nine o'clock Saturday morning, September 26, 
1896, he breathed his last.

In his death the community has lost an upright honorable citizen, the 
business circles of our town, an honest conscientious tradesman, his family, 
a loving husband and thoughtful, kind and indulgent father. The writer had 
known him for almost ten years, and words fail us to describe the high 
regard we always had for this exemplary man who has just left us.  We hope 
that every young man might emulate his sterling integrity, bright character, 
and his unfreigned regard for all that was good, just and honorable.

The funeral services were held at his late residence, where he spent so 
many happy years with the joy of his heart-his family, on Monday afternoon 
at three o'clock.  It was one of bigest funerals ever seen in Tiskilwa.  
Every place of business in town closed, also the school, the pupils marching 
to the house and to Mt. Bloom where they scattered autumn leaves over the 
beir.

Deceased was a member of Sharon Lodge No. 550 A.F. & A.M., and also of 
Senachwine Lodge, No. 147 I.O.O.F.  About 50 members later lodge marched in 
the procession to the cemetery and deposited evergreens on the grave.

Rev. A.Bailey Hill, St. Jude's Episcopal church officiated and preached a 
very touching and able sermon, which will be printed in this paper next 
week.

Undertaker L.O. May had charge of the funeral; interment at Mount Bloom 
cemetery.

He was a senior member of the firm J.H. Moreand Co., his partner being his 
son-in-law, Mr. E.R. Pettegrew.

The direct cause of his death was congestion of he lungs, but his system 
had been weakened by a stomach trouble of long standing.

He was an active and consistent member of St. Jude'sEpiscopal church, and 
took much interest in affairs of the Parish.  He was Junior Warden of the 
Vestry at the time of his death.

Jonas Hamilton More, son of Robert L. and Gertrude Conover More was born in 
Prattsville, Green county, New York, January 9, 1828, and was aged 68 years, 
8 months and 15 days at the time of his death.  When he was nine years old 
his parents moved to Durhamville, where as soon as he was old enough he 
began work in his father's tannery when not in school.

When his father went to Connecticut to engage in the business of building 
railroads, Jonas accompained him, and though but nineteen years old, took 
charge of a gang of men in excavating and grading.  This business he 
followed for eight years in different parts of the country:  firs ton the 
New York and New Haven railroad; then on the Hudson River railroad; then on 
the New Haven and Northampton railroad; next on the New Jersey  Central.  
He then came to Tiskilwa, where he superintended a portion of the grading 
of the Chicago and Rock Island railroad;  from here to Putnam on the Bureau 
Valley road, and from there to Muscatine, Iowa, on the branch of the Chicago, 
Rock Island and Pacific road.

He returned  to Tiskilwa in 1855, and married Nancy, daughter of Michael 
Kitterman, one of the pioneer settlers of Bureau county.  In 1856 he 
engaged in the merchantile business in Tiskilwa, which he continued up to 
his death, making forty years of business inTiskilwa.  In 1867 he took the 
contract of grading four miles of the Union Pacific railroad in Western 
Nebraska.  He has six children, two boys and four girls.  The oldest three 
died in infancy, three daughters remaining Emma, wife of Edward R. 
Pettegrew; Gertrude, wife of Dr. B.F. Landis; and Marion, all of Tiskilwa.

Mr. More has always enjoyed the confidence of his neighbors, who bestowed 
upon hummanity positions of honor and trust,--among them that of the member 
of the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served during the years 
of 1874-76; Postmaster, Supervisor, Member of the Board of Education, 
President and member of the Village Trustees.  He was Township Treasure and 
member of the Village Library Board at the time of his death.

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