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John Henry Near

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John Henry Near

Birth
Ontario, Canada
Death
20 Jan 1906 (aged 76–77)
Shelby, Oceana County, Michigan, USA
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Contributed by Art Currie:
OCEANA HERALD, JAN. 26, 1906
John Near, one of Oceana County's pioneer settlers died at his home three and one half miles east of this village Sat. Jan. 20, 1906. He was born Jan. 5, 1829 in Humberstone, Welland Co., Ontario where his early life was spent working at the carpenter trade. In the summer of 1868 he, with his family, moved to this township, located on a piece of timber land, cleared the ground, and developed it into the present farm, supplied with modern conveniences. He leaves a wife and eleven children all of whom have acquired good farm property by following the economic example of their father. In his death the Mennonite community loses one of its most consistent and energetic members he having been a member of that organization forty two years. The funeral was held Tuesday at the Mennonite church, the services being conducted by Bishop John Mauk of Osborne, OH, his text being the 21st verse of the 1st chapter of Phillipians "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." The services were largely attended, Mr. Near being a man highly respected not only by the members of the Mennonite congregation for which he had been a deacon for 15 years but by everyone in this section, who knew him, he was regarded as a man of high character who walked unswervingly in the path of his religious convictions.
Contributed by Art Currie:
OCEANA HERALD, JAN. 26, 1906
John Near, one of Oceana County's pioneer settlers died at his home three and one half miles east of this village Sat. Jan. 20, 1906. He was born Jan. 5, 1829 in Humberstone, Welland Co., Ontario where his early life was spent working at the carpenter trade. In the summer of 1868 he, with his family, moved to this township, located on a piece of timber land, cleared the ground, and developed it into the present farm, supplied with modern conveniences. He leaves a wife and eleven children all of whom have acquired good farm property by following the economic example of their father. In his death the Mennonite community loses one of its most consistent and energetic members he having been a member of that organization forty two years. The funeral was held Tuesday at the Mennonite church, the services being conducted by Bishop John Mauk of Osborne, OH, his text being the 21st verse of the 1st chapter of Phillipians "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." The services were largely attended, Mr. Near being a man highly respected not only by the members of the Mennonite congregation for which he had been a deacon for 15 years but by everyone in this section, who knew him, he was regarded as a man of high character who walked unswervingly in the path of his religious convictions.

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