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John H. Moraign (1921)

COATS, DOAN, MORAIGN, REYNOLDS, TOOMEY, TRENARY

Posted By: Linda Griffith Smith
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:03:25

The Thayer News
Thayer, Kansas
Friday, August 5, 1921
Page 1

J.H. MORAIGN DIED TUESDAY

J.H. Moraign died at his home in Thayer Tuesday August 2, of catarrh of the bronchial tubes from which he had suffered for many years.

The funeral was conducted by Rev. L.E. Shank of Cherryvale, assisted by Rev. J.T. Smith from the Baptist church in Thayer Thursday, Aug. 4 at 2:30 and the body laid to rest in the Thayer cemetery.

He leaves a wife, two sons and two daughters. They are George Moraign of Cherryvale, Lon Moraign an Mrs. Rosco Coats of Thayer and Mrs. Art Toomey of Neodesha.

Mr. Moraign was 79 years of age and had lived in and near Thayer for the past 21 years.

He was born December 25, 1842 in DeWitt county, Ill., enlisted in Co. H, 22nd Ill. Vol. Infantry at the age of 18 and served a year and a half, after which he was honorably discharged for disability.

In 1863 he married to Miss Lucinda Reynolds and to this union was born one child, George. In 1869 he moved to Iowa and was married to Miss Cynthia Doan, who died a year or so later.

In 1873 he married to Miss Mary E. Trenary, who survives him.

He was the father of nine children, only four of whom are now living. In 1889 he moved from Iowa to Kansas and settled on a farm near Cherryvale, where he lived until 21 years ago, when he moved to a farm west of Thayer.

Mr. Moragn [Moraign] was a member of the Baptist church for 40 years and has been a deacon in the Thayer church for eleven years.
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Transcriber's note: The Moraign family is listed in the Madison County Iowa 1885 population census and 1880 agricultural census (as Morain) on Ancestry.com. He married two wives and had two children in Madison County.

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