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Obituary of William Archer Handy

6 September 1922, Clark County (IL) Democrat


William Archer Handy was born in Melrose township in this county on
May 19, 1837, and departed this life at his home in West Union,
Illinois, on August 31, 1922, at the advanced age of 85 years and 3
month, all of which long life he passed in the one community.  His
father was Stephen D. Handy, a native of New York state, and his
mother was Margaret Dixon who was born in Virginia.  This couple were
married at old Ft. Morrison, now Terre Haute, Ind., and came to Clark
county with the first company of settlers and after spending a short
time in York township, founded a home in Melrose township where
William A. grew to manhood.
 
Stephen D. and Margaret Handy were the parents of ten children of whom
William A. was next to the youngest and the last to pass beyond.
William A. was married on December 31, 1858, to his neighbor girl,
Sarah Jane Hull, who lived to bless his life until one year ago.  To
this couple were born five children--Mary E, now the wife of Leonard
Walker of West Union; William W. living at Oliver; Sol H. of Marshall;
Mattie F., wife of Charles Prevo of West Union and Edward E., who died
in 1888 at the age of 14 years.  William A. was a veteran of the Civil
War, giving four years' service to the preservation of the Union, a
service of which he alwasy felt proud.  Early in life he professed
christianity and united with the Methodist Protestant church and this
faith sustained and comforted him until the hour of death.  He gave
freely to the church and in the days of the Circuit Rider, his home
was always a haven of rest to those earnest ministers.  He made no
profession he did not live, and all his life he squared by the Golden
Rule.  He was a farmer and a homemaker and there was his happiness
always to be found until the one great sorrow of his life, the death
of his beloved companion, but this sorrow was greatly lesssened by his
daughter, Mrs. Prevo, who closed her home and maintained his home for
him that he might have that devoted attention and care he had lavished
on his wife and children for so manyyears.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Clark S. Thomas of
Marshall at the family residence at West Union on Sept. 3, and the
burial was in his family lot in the York cemetery and was in charge of
the American Legion.

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