Another family, long and honorably identified with Princeville's progress and welfare gathered last Lord's Day here to pay the last earthly tributes to its departed head. Abner Bliss, cousin of the late Solomon Bliss, was born in Pomfort, N.Y., May 23rd, 1828; and when nine years old, came with his parents to Illinois. The journey was begun on an immense raft of logs, loaded with hand-made shingles, both of wich were disposed of at Wheeling, West Va. (then Virginia) after which the voyage was continued by river steamboats down the Ohio, up the Mississippi and Illinois to Peoria. Among the earlier abiding places of the Bliss family were Northampton and Blue Ridge. In 1850, Abner married Lydia M. Miller of Yadkin County, North Carolina, for a short time lived with his parents, then moved to the adjoining farm in Lawn Ridge, where their first child, Fiducia, now Mrs. Affolter, was born 14 April 1851. Later, he sold out and moved into Princeville Township about two miles southwest of the present site of Duncan. Here, there were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, Melinda Jane, now Mrs. Wilson of Chitwood, Oregon; Albert Leslie, now living at Ridgefield, Washington; Albert Zenas, of Walker, Iowa, but now lying dangerously sick with the measles at this father's home near Cedar Rapids; Emma Mabelia, now Mrs. Woods of Chitwood; Lucy Araminta, who died soon after reaching Oregon in 1902 and Clarissa Ellen, now Mrs. Kellogg of Peoria.
About forty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss sold the Princeville farm and bought and moved to the one two miles out in Akron long known as "the Abner Bliss place". Here the last child was born Annie Lovina, now Mrs. Nowlan of Lovington, Ill.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bliss had public spirit, were interested in church life and in the schools being first associated with the Christian church that stood just west of Mrs. Wm. Alter's present home. In 1866, under the labors of Elders Ingraham and Sandborn, and after much personal study of the Scriptures, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss became charter members of the Adventist Church soon after that organized in Princeville. Of this church he was a deacon, an earnest advocate and a strict adherent.
At a golden wedding anniversary, in 1900, all the daughters and many descendants were present. The grandchildren now number thirty-four, the great-grandchildren thirteen.
In April, 1906, Mr. Bliss rented the old farm and moved to Kenwood Park, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An attack of lagrippe that probably brought trouble of some years standing resulted in the death of Mr. Bliss on the 25th, very near the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birthday.
At the home, a funeral service was conducted by Elder Oleson and her at Mr. Wm. Renegar's by the Rev. Joseph Applegate of Peoria. Only three of the children were able to attend in Princeville, but many grandchildren, kindred and friends were present, among them Misses Maude and Bertha Affolter, the elder of whom, Maude, most of the period since the death of Mrs. Bliss in 1903, kept house for her grandfather.
Princeville Heritage Museum Obituaries on file, #101.2022.7.
Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.
Son of Zenas & Mabel (Gillett) Bliss, husband of Lydia Miller, m. Mar 31, 1850.
About forty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss sold the Princeville farm and bought and moved to the one two miles out in Akron long known as "the Abner Bliss place". Here the last child was born Annie Lovina, now Mrs. Nowlan of Lovington, Ill.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bliss had public spirit, were interested in church life and in the schools being first associated with the Christian church that stood just west of Mrs. Wm. Alter's present home. In 1866, under the labors of Elders Ingraham and Sandborn, and after much personal study of the Scriptures, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss became charter members of the Adventist Church soon after that organized in Princeville. Of this church he was a deacon, an earnest advocate and a strict adherent.
At a golden wedding anniversary, in 1900, all the daughters and many descendants were present. The grandchildren now number thirty-four, the great-grandchildren thirteen.
In April, 1906, Mr. Bliss rented the old farm and moved to Kenwood Park, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An attack of lagrippe that probably brought trouble of some years standing resulted in the death of Mr. Bliss on the 25th, very near the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birthday.
At the home, a funeral service was conducted by Elder Oleson and her at Mr. Wm. Renegar's by the Rev. Joseph Applegate of Peoria. Only three of the children were able to attend in Princeville, but many grandchildren, kindred and friends were present, among them Misses Maude and Bertha Affolter, the elder of whom, Maude, most of the period since the death of Mrs. Bliss in 1903, kept house for her grandfather.
Princeville Heritage Museum Obituaries on file, #101.2022.7.
Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.
Son of Zenas & Mabel (Gillett) Bliss, husband of Lydia Miller, m. Mar 31, 1850.
Another family, long and honorably identified with Princeville's progress and welfare gathered last Lord's Day here to pay the last earthly tributes to its departed head. Abner Bliss, cousin of the late Solomon Bliss, was born in Pomfort, N.Y., May 23rd, 1828; and when nine years old, came with his parents to Illinois. The journey was begun on an immense raft of logs, loaded with hand-made shingles, both of wich were disposed of at Wheeling, West Va. (then Virginia) after which the voyage was continued by river steamboats down the Ohio, up the Mississippi and Illinois to Peoria. Among the earlier abiding places of the Bliss family were Northampton and Blue Ridge. In 1850, Abner married Lydia M. Miller of Yadkin County, North Carolina, for a short time lived with his parents, then moved to the adjoining farm in Lawn Ridge, where their first child, Fiducia, now Mrs. Affolter, was born 14 April 1851. Later, he sold out and moved into Princeville Township about two miles southwest of the present site of Duncan. Here, there were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, Melinda Jane, now Mrs. Wilson of Chitwood, Oregon; Albert Leslie, now living at Ridgefield, Washington; Albert Zenas, of Walker, Iowa, but now lying dangerously sick with the measles at this father's home near Cedar Rapids; Emma Mabelia, now Mrs. Woods of Chitwood; Lucy Araminta, who died soon after reaching Oregon in 1902 and Clarissa Ellen, now Mrs. Kellogg of Peoria.
About forty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss sold the Princeville farm and bought and moved to the one two miles out in Akron long known as "the Abner Bliss place". Here the last child was born Annie Lovina, now Mrs. Nowlan of Lovington, Ill.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bliss had public spirit, were interested in church life and in the schools being first associated with the Christian church that stood just west of Mrs. Wm. Alter's present home. In 1866, under the labors of Elders Ingraham and Sandborn, and after much personal study of the Scriptures, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss became charter members of the Adventist Church soon after that organized in Princeville. Of this church he was a deacon, an earnest advocate and a strict adherent.
At a golden wedding anniversary, in 1900, all the daughters and many descendants were present. The grandchildren now number thirty-four, the great-grandchildren thirteen.
In April, 1906, Mr. Bliss rented the old farm and moved to Kenwood Park, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An attack of lagrippe that probably brought trouble of some years standing resulted in the death of Mr. Bliss on the 25th, very near the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birthday.
At the home, a funeral service was conducted by Elder Oleson and her at Mr. Wm. Renegar's by the Rev. Joseph Applegate of Peoria. Only three of the children were able to attend in Princeville, but many grandchildren, kindred and friends were present, among them Misses Maude and Bertha Affolter, the elder of whom, Maude, most of the period since the death of Mrs. Bliss in 1903, kept house for her grandfather.
Princeville Heritage Museum Obituaries on file, #101.2022.7.
Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.
Son of Zenas & Mabel (Gillett) Bliss, husband of Lydia Miller, m. Mar 31, 1850.
About forty years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss sold the Princeville farm and bought and moved to the one two miles out in Akron long known as "the Abner Bliss place". Here the last child was born Annie Lovina, now Mrs. Nowlan of Lovington, Ill.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bliss had public spirit, were interested in church life and in the schools being first associated with the Christian church that stood just west of Mrs. Wm. Alter's present home. In 1866, under the labors of Elders Ingraham and Sandborn, and after much personal study of the Scriptures, Mr. and Mrs. Bliss became charter members of the Adventist Church soon after that organized in Princeville. Of this church he was a deacon, an earnest advocate and a strict adherent.
At a golden wedding anniversary, in 1900, all the daughters and many descendants were present. The grandchildren now number thirty-four, the great-grandchildren thirteen.
In April, 1906, Mr. Bliss rented the old farm and moved to Kenwood Park, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An attack of lagrippe that probably brought trouble of some years standing resulted in the death of Mr. Bliss on the 25th, very near the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birthday.
At the home, a funeral service was conducted by Elder Oleson and her at Mr. Wm. Renegar's by the Rev. Joseph Applegate of Peoria. Only three of the children were able to attend in Princeville, but many grandchildren, kindred and friends were present, among them Misses Maude and Bertha Affolter, the elder of whom, Maude, most of the period since the death of Mrs. Bliss in 1903, kept house for her grandfather.
Princeville Heritage Museum Obituaries on file, #101.2022.7.
Transcribed and submitted by Ethel.
Son of Zenas & Mabel (Gillett) Bliss, husband of Lydia Miller, m. Mar 31, 1850.
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