CO A 2nd IA CAV

Died at the home of his daughter, MRS. GEO. P. CAMPBELL, in Davis City, Iowa, on Sunday at 3:30 p.m., after a brief illness of four days. He was born near Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pa., December 13, 1820, and was therefore, 83 years, 8 months and 8 days old. When about l8 years of age he came west as far as Henry County, Indiana, and worked as a farm hand until 1840, when he was married to MISS MARY A. BOSLOGUE, and to this union were born 11 children, all of whom lived to be grown, there being 7 boys and 4 girls; 7 of them are living.

DANIEL was the first of the children who died. He died at Vicksburg, Miss., while fighting for his country in the war of the rebellion, a member of Co. I, 4th Iowa Cavalry, JOHN B., the eldest son, was also a soldier for the Union in the war of the rebellion, a member of Co. A, 2nd Iowa Cavalry. He died March 31, l899. ZACKWELL R., the second son, died in Horr, Mont., in March, Iowa (this is a misprint..)

The wife died August 20, 1887, in Conway, Iowa. The other members of the family are scattered over quite a wide scope of country. MILES is in California, MILTON is in Wyoming, BEN is near Bonesteel, S.D., R.T. is at Decatur, Ill., MRS. M.A. SNAPP, lives at Wortham, Texas, MRS. IDA HERRING, in Dublin, Texas, MRS. HATTIE FAUCETT (the page is torn and the
next line missing..) family present at the time of his death, lives at Davis City.

MR. SOWASH came from Indiana with his family to Iowa in 1851 and settled first in Boone County at or near a place on the Des Moines River, called Swede Point, and at that time the settlements were very few and far apart. He lived there a few years and sold his farm, and in about the year 1856, went to southeastern Kansas, where he remained two years, when he settled in Madison County, Iowa, where he improved another farm, and in the summer of 1866 he sold out there and came to Decatur County. He bought a farm near Pleasanton, just over the state line in Missouri, where he resided until 1875; he again sold out and moved to a farm he had bought five miles northwest of Bedford in Taylor County. He continued to live in Taylor County until after his wife died in 1887, when he broke up housekeeping and came to make his home with his daughter, MRS. CAMPBELL, and has resided with her since that time, but making occasional visits to his other children.

On Monday, August 15th, he went for a short visit with his
granddaughter, MRS. R.H. MARTZ, at Chariton, Iowa, and stayed until Wednesday evening, when he went to Lucas to visit his grandson, FRANK SOWASH, and about the time he left Chariton, he was taken with summer complaint, that has been a bother to him for some years, and he grew worse so rapidly that he started for Davis City early Thursday morning and arrived home at noon in a very exhausted condition, and from which he never was able to rally, but continued to grow weaker until Sunday at 3:30 when he passed peacefully away, like a little child going to sleep in its mother's arms.

MR. SOWASH never made any particular religious profession, although in earlier life he was quite a Bible student, and tried to follow its teachings. In 1841, when he was 21 years of age, he joined the Masonic Fraternity and ever after tried to live according to its precepts and teachings. He was naturally of a lively, jovial disposition and very fond of children, and in his last years was never better pleased than when he had a number of them around him. He will be missed by many of them near his home. On August 24th, his remains were taken to Conway and laid by the side of his wife, there to rest until the resurrection morn. During the last 18 years of his life he was a great sufferer from asthma, and often when suffering expressed a desire to depart and be free from his suffering. He will be missed by many. Peace to his ashes.

Decatur County Journal
September 1, 1904