Bradford County PA Archives Obituaries.....Pierce, M. H. October 1, 1889
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  Jackson Sentinel, Oct. 10, 1889
  Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa, October 10, 1889.
  
  DIED-
  
  PIERCE-At his home in Fairfield, Tuesday, October 1st, at six o’clock a.m.,
  1889, of heart disease, M. H. Pierce, aged 70 years, 7 months and 10 days.
  
  M. H. Pierce was born Feb. 20th, 1819, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; moved to
  Genesee County, New York, when 9 years old; to Sanduskey, Ohio, when 16; when 20
  began a series of travels in the Southern and then Western states; at 25 settled
  down to farming in Montgomery County, Indiana; in 1855 removed  to Winneshiek
  County, Iowa; in 1866 removed to the farm in Fairfield Township, Jackson County,
  Iowa, where he has since lived. He married Martha Hughes of Montgomery County,
  Indiana in 1844, and had five children, four of whom are still living-Joseph G.,
  George D., William B., and Martha Mae. He married his second wife, S. A. Pulver,
  in Jackson County, Jan. 12, 1864. They have two children, Lester C. and Grace.
  
  Deceased has been in poor health for nineteen months, and for the past eight
  months had been failing so gradually that weeks instead of days had to be
  compared to notice the change. His naturally social disposition remained
  unchanged until about two months ago, but since that time there was little but a
  mere greeting for his appreciated friends. Never did company prove a more
  valuable auxiliary to medicine than with Mr. Pierce. The funeral occurred on
  Thursday at his late home and the remains followed by a long funeral train, were
  conveyed to Maquoketa and interred in Mt. Hope Cemetery.
  
  He was a most estimable citizen, a good man of honest convictions, more than
  ordinary intelligence, always upright with those whom he dealt with, and
  possessed an enduring friendship for his more intimate acquaintances. Of his
  family there were present at the funeral J. G. Pierce, of Riverside, Cal.; Geo.
  D. Pierce of Irwin, Iowa; W. G. Pierce of Shelby, Iowa; Mrs. S. H. Hall of
  Minneapolis, Lizzie Lester and Grace Pierce.
  
  
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