Iowa County WI Archives Obituaries.....Tyrer, Robert November 30, 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com January 1, 2007, 4:37 am Dodgeville Chronicle, December 26, 1929 "ROBERT TYRER-Robert William Tyrer was born in Columbus, Ohio, February 29, 1844, the son of LUTHER and SARAH TYRER, and died at his home in Austin, Minn. On November 30, 1929, age 85. He had been in ill health for two years and suffered a stroke two weeks prior to his death.” “When a young man, he enlisted in Company H, 31st Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps, August 15, 1862 and was discharged August 21, 1865, making three years and six days in service. He was wounded in the Battle at Atlanta and served six weeks in Libbyville prison.” “After the war, Mr. Tyrer returned to Wisconsin where he went into the blacksmith and machine business. Later he was engineer on a Pullman passenger train from Milwaukee to Prairie du Chien for eleven years.” “He was married in Dodgeville, Wis, in 1866. To this union were born eight children, three of whom survive. Fred and Roy of Austin, and Mrs. Oscar Busse of Chicago. In 1891, Mr. Tyrer married Mrs. Addie Mahan. To this union was born one daughter, Mrs. Paul Williams of Hong Kong. He is also survived by one step-son, Austin Tyrer of Madison, and eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren.” “Comrade Tyrer had lived in Austin since 1892 and was engineer at the high school for many years. He was active in the work of the McIntyre Post of the G. A. R., also a member of the Methodist church.” Rev. Johnson of the M. E. church preached the funeral sermon and took for this text: ‘And there shall be no night there,’ which a mixed quartet also sang. His words ran along a patriotic line. There has been plenty of night in this world and it is such men as our deceased who made it safe to live in, so he told the congregation, which numbers about 75, or at least all that could be accommodated in the undertaker’s establishment. The quartet closed with the hymn, “I shall see him face to face.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/iowa/obits/t/tyrer293gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb