The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
March 31, 1909
Page 3
Column 5Simeon Anderson Mosley was born in Hancock county, Ill., Nov. 4, 1843, and died in Carthage, Ill., March 27, 1909, aged 65 years, 4 months and 23 days. His parents emigrated from Anderson county, Ky., in 1839, settling in Hancock county, ten miles southeast of Carthage, where his father died June 29, 1887, and his mother Dec. 28, 1905.
Simeon was the fourth oldest of a family of ten children, three of whom had preceded him to the grave: Mrs. Mary Porter, in 1883; Wm. V., in 1896; and John F., in 1901, the surviving members of the family being Mrs. Martha Robinson, Winston R., Samuel T., Mrs. Sarah Porter, Mrs. Ann Printy and Mrs. Amanda Meaux, all residents of their native county except Mrs. Printy, who lives in Keokuk, Ia.
Mr. Mosley served in the Civil war one year in Company C. 42 Ill. He was a member of Alexander Sympson Post.
On Aug. 9, 1866, he was married to Miss Sarah M. Kurry, of near Plymouth, who died Aug. 6, 1904. To this union eleven children were born, those living being Marion, Mrs. Cora Booz, Mrs. Iva Lenix, Burns, Earl, Ray and Hazel, all of whom were present at his death.
On the 13th day of March, 1907, deceased was married to his second wife, Mrs. Laura Clutch, of this city, who, assisted by his children and a few faithful friends, for six months of an almost helpless illness resulting from consumption, attended him with that zeal and faithfulness which only those who love can bestow.
March 29th, his remains were conveyed to Oak Grove cemetery where they were laid to rest by the side of those of his deceased wife, after an able discourse by Elder W. W. Denham, Christian minister of this city. Each of the floral offerings contributed by this wife and family, the members of the Carthage Christian church, Mesdames Hecox and Chevillon, Alexander Sympson Grand Army Post and by the local lodge of the Home Fraternal League of which his wife is a member, beautifully attested the love and respect of their several donors.
The song service was rendered by Mr. Lynn Calihan and wife, the latter presiding at the organ. Mrs. Sol Brown, Miss Grace Geddes and Roy Brandon, all of Ft. Green and vicinity. The writer, not having the power to give the rendition of this part of the ceremony the merit which it deserves, will content himself by saying that for appropriateness and selection and for excellence of expression he has never heard it surpassed on any similar occasion. A most fitting and pathetic1 tribute it indeed was to the memory of him to whom so large a concourse had met to do honor in these last sad rites; fitting tribute to him, who, when the final summons came, "went not as a quarry slave scourged to his dungeon, but as one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."
1 pathetic should probably be sympathetic.
Hancock County Historical Society
Siegfried XIX
Page 135My grandfather Simeon Anderson Mosley was born in Hancock County, Illinois, November 4, 1843 and grew to manhood on the farm which his parents had cleared. He enlisted in the Civil war in 1864 in Company C., 42d Illinois Infantry and was mustered out of service at Fort Lavacar, Texas in 1865. He was a member of the Alexander Sympson Post. In August he was married to Miss Sarah Curry who died August 6, 1904. To this union were born eleven children. Seven are still living, my father, Ray Mosley, being the youngest son, Simeon Mosley came to Carthage, purchased property and lived here until his death which occurred March 27, 1909 aged 65 years.
