Obit for Joseph Moon 1851-1921, HERON LAKE NEWS, Jackson Co., MN

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Joseph Moon's death as reported by the HERON LAKE NEWS, Sept. 1, 1921

JOSEPH MOON WAS STRICKEN
Was failing Fast But End Came As Shock.

     Word of the death of Joseph Moon came as a surprise to his 
acquaintances here Wednesday as he was seen on our streets in 
apparently good health on the previous Monday.  However, we are all 
called sooner or later but his calling was with out much premonition, 
he having suffered a paralytic stroke to which he succumbed to Wednesday 
evening August 31, 1921 at 6:30 p.m.  Mr. Moon was the father of ten 
children and a highly spoken of old gentleman. Funeral services will be 
held at the Methodist church Saturday at 2 o'clock and interment made in
the Lakeside cemetery.  The sorrowing relatives have the sympathy of the 
entire community.
     Joseph W. Moon was born in Warren Co., New York in 1851, March 12th.  
In 1856, when 19 years of age he came to Cedar Rapids, Ia.  He was 
married to Minnie M. Wehrman, Sept. 12, 1874.  In 1902 he moved to 
Cottonwood Co., and in 1905 to this city.  To this union were born 10 
children of which nine survive.
The Children are:  Mrs. Ella Wikert, Abbot, Ia.;  Mrs. Emma Dolson, 
Geneva, Ia.;  Mrs. Josie Wikert, Mountain Lake, Minn.;  Joseph G. Moon, 
Heron Lake; Mrs. Ina Fancher, Tulsa, Oklahoma;  Mrs. Esther Shaw, Omaha, 
Nebr.;  Eldon C. Moon, Mexico;   Mrs. Mary Byers, Des Moines, Ia.;  
Mrs. Francis Loso, Nelson, Nebr.;   William H. Moon, Heron Lake.  
Mr. Moon is also survived by his wife.
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