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LAVERTY, John M. (1792-1872)

LAVERTY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 2/4/2018 at 17:04:20

John M. Laverty

Warren County Leader, Indianola, Iowa, Thurs., Jan 4, 1872, p.3, col.3
DIED – January 1st, 1872, at the residence of his adopted daughter, Mrs. Effie Fisk, in Indianola, Iowa, JOHN M. LAVERTY, aged seventy-nine years and eleven days. Mr. Laverty was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Dec. 21, 1792, and was the youngest of seven children, but one of whom survives him – a sister, two year his senior, who now resides in Wisconsin. His father having died, his mother moved her family overland to Pickaway County, Ohio. During the War of 1812 he twice entered the federal service, first during the spring of 1813 as a conscript [drafted] for six months, and afterwards as a volunteer. During this service he was stationed at Sandusky, Detroit, and at some of the principal military ports in Canada. At the expiration of his term of volunteer service he returned to Pickaway County to reside with his mother. Her residence was near the site of the present city of Columbus, then a desolate region without a building or other visible mark of civilization. In 1818 he removed to Indiana and assisted in erecting the first frame building in the city of Terre Haute. He resided in that state until 1848, during the early part of which he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy McNutt, an estimable Christian lady, with whom he lived happily until 1860, when she departed this life after a brief but painful illness. The only issue of this marriage now living is a son - James Laverty – an honored citizen of Union Township, in this county. He removed from Indiana to Iowa in the fall of 1848, and settled on his present farm, five miles northeast of Indianola, where he has since resided until within the past year. In 1861 he was again married, his second wife being Mrs. Electa Miller, of Palmyra this county. Mr. Laverty had been identified with many of the early important events of the three western states in which he had resided, and was wont to relate many stories replete with interesting incidents of pioneer life. Of his religious life it is difficult to write. Since 1832 he has been a consistent member of the M. E. Church, and during this period of nearly forty years has been a constant subscriber to the Western Christian Advocate. His religion has all been of the affirmative type – nothing negative. In the private walks of life his religious character was most strongly marked. Slow, very slow to anger, he never gave way to bursts of passion. When the least ruffed in temper by the unavoidable crosses and vexations of life, all acts and expressions of anger were smothered by the humming of some familiar Methodist hymn. A devoted husband, an affectionate father and an unyielding friend, he died as he had lived, a true servant of the Lord.


 

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