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Salathiel Timmons obituary (Mills County Tribune)

Salathial [sic] Timmons



Salathiel Timmons was born in Madison County, Ohioh, January 19, 1835, and died in Malvern, Iowa, May 3, 1909, aged 74 years.



He was married to Lydia A. Bennett of Clark County, Ohio, November 26, 1859. Mr. and Mrs. Timmons moved to Illinois in 1860; thence to Boone county, Iowa, in 1881; thence to Mills county in 1888 and from the country into the town of Malvern in 1904.



Mr. Timmons served in the Civil war as a volunteer in the 123rd regiment Illinois infantry, for three years, and was honorably discharged in 1965.



Mr. Timmons was convered to the religious life in Boone county in 1882, and united with the Methodist church. His conversion was clear and decisive, and he has always been counted a consistent, earnest and faithful Christian man.



While in the army. Mr. Timmons suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever, losing for a time the power of speech. It is doubtful whether he ever recovered his full strength. His first stroke of apralysis occurred in 1902, the second on April 24, 1909, and the third and fatal stroke on May 3.



There are left to mourn his loss the two children of the family, Charles F. Timmons of Ashland, Neb., and the wife died three years ago.

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