Butler County KS Archives Obituaries.....Mooney, Isaac (Rev.) October 20, 1902
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Walnut Valley Times, October 24, 1902 Volume XXXIII, Number 39
ISAAC MOONEY PASSES AWAY 

Rev. Isaac Mooney, a pioneer of Towanda township since 1870 died at his home at 
2 p.m. today, October 20. he was 84 years old and died after a long and very 
useful life, both as a man and minister. The time of the funeral has not been 
arranged.

October 24, 1902 
Walnut Valley Times 
Volume XXXIII Number 40 

OBITUARY 
Isaac Mooney was born in Miami county, Ohio, May 22, 1820; died at Towanda, 
Kansas, October 19, 1902. Until 1856 he resided in his natal state and was 
married to Eliza Rodehamer in 1848. In 1856 he moved to Whiteside county, 
Illinois, living there until March 1870, when he settled on the Whitewater, 
later laying out the ambitious town of Towanda, the post office of that name 
already established on the stage route from Humbodlt, through El Dorado, to 
Wichita. He had great, though unrealized hopes, for Towanda. In the legislative 
session of 1871-2 he was a member from Butler county, elected on his opposition 
to the division of the county. His hope was that in the rivalry and contest 
between El Dorado and Augusta for the county seat, Towanda might win it.

In early youth his Christian life began and he became a minister of the 
Christian (not Campbellite or Disciple) church and he remained faithful and 
active in the work to his death. It is said by one who knew him well that it 
seemed as if he had married or buried almost everyone he knew! He was a founder 
of churches, an establisher of Sunday schools and a preacher of gospel without 
money and without price. Often throughout his long years of his church work he 
followed the plow or worked on his farm and then preached two sermons on 
Sunday. For several years he had been president of the Christian college at 
Lincoln, Kansas. He was an humble and faithful, zealous and untiring worker and 
those who have known him will not soon see his like again.

He leaves a wife to mourn a kind and indulgent husband and father. Eight 
children survive him, Mrs. Nancy Love, Pomona, California, Sol R. Mooney, v. P. 
Mooney, Mrs. Andy Swiggert, Walter Mooney, Mrs. Edgar Spaulding, Jos. Mooney, 
now in Oklahoma, and Mrs. M. Orban. A daughter, Mrs. Dr. Johnson, died a few 
years ago.

His funeral occurred today, October 22, from the church in Towanda and he was 
buried with Masonic rites. The funeral was very largely attended for he was 
known, honored, esteemed and loved by a wider circle of friends than perhaps 
any pioneer deceased in recent years.


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