Obit: Obituary of Preston Eyre (1859): Delaware Co., PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Judy Ardine . ****************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non- commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ ****************************************************************** April 29, 1859 DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Death Notice DEATH OF PRESTON EYRE. - We have received intelligence of the decease of PRESTON EYRE, Esq. formerly of this place. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Gen. CALEB H. BOOTH, at Dubuque, Iowa, on Monday, the 18th inst. in the eighty seventh year of his age. For more than sixty years of his life, he resided in this Borough and its neighborhood. About twenty two years since, inspired by the promises of the West, he removed with his family to Illinois, where he purchased land upon which he resided for a considerable period. Advanced years and changes in his family, however, induced him to leave his farm in the possession of one of his sons, and take up his abode in Dubuque. During the pilgrimage of our departed friend, many have been the joys, and doubtless, too the sorrows spread in his path. Few men possessed a more lively disposition, and none, perhaps, more of whole souled, open handed and open hearted sociability than he. Warm and ardent in his attachments, he sought the companionship of his acquaintances, and at all times, met them with an expression of cheerfulness, which left no room to doubt the goodness of his heart. Many of our readers in this county will remember the sociable and friendly grasp of his hand. Mr. << EYRE>> was a worthy example of sobriety, temperance and regular habits of life. He was a kind and attentive husband and an indulgent parent. For fifty five he and his amiable companion, who still survives, lived together in the affectionate relationship of married life - and now, like the ripened harvest, in the full maturity of time, he is gathered into the garner. Mr. << EYRE>> enjoyed in a remarkable degree, up to the time of his death, the possession of all his faculties. - He was somewhat dull of hearing, but he had a liveliness of step and an erect form that indicated much less advanced age. About a year since, he left this place on his return home, having spent some months here with his friends and relations. At that time, he seemed to have the promises of years to come, but the trumpets sound of Him who rules the whirlwind and the storm proclaimed the message of 'Come unto me all ye nations of the earth,'and to that call there is not, neither can there be, a denial.