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Johnson County >> Yearbooks Index Old
Settlers' Association Yearbooks 1866-1925 s NB: Only sketches from 1866 to 1922 are included here. Each index entry includes (year) of annual reunion and page number. Cyrus
Sanders submitted by
Dick Barton In
Memoriam One
of the most active and prominent of Johnson County was Cyrus Sanders, who passed
away April 27, 1887.
We find among the papers of the Association the original copy of the
resolutions of respect prepared by a committee of the Association.
We believe that these resolutions were published, and the same follow: Cyrus
Sanders, who stood with and labored by our side in the early struggles of
Johnson County and Iowa City, has gone from our midst in obedience to the
summons, "Come up higher".
Therefore we, his friends and companions, members of the Johnson County
Old Settlers' Association, hereby express our high appreciation of his integrity
as a man, his purity and faithfulness as a citizen, his loving kindness as a
husband and father, and of his generous loyalty as a friend.
We rejoice in his manly character.
We rejoice that he lived and worked with us.
We mourn his departure.
we sympathize with his bereaved family to whom has come such bitter loss.
We endeavor to bow in submission to the will of the Father and Friend of
all. Mrs.
Euclid Sanders submitted by
Dick Barton Another
[of the oldest residents of the county] is Mrs. Euclid Sanders, whose father,
Mr. Terrill, took up his residence on the banks of the Iowa River, one mile
north of Iowa City, in the early forties.
Mr. Terrill, who came from Georgia, erected a grist mill and built a dam
in the river to provide power with which to drive the mill machinery.
The dam and the mill,
historical structures in the county, have disappeared with the mutations
of years.
The only relics of the mill - three or four of the ancient millstones
that ground cornmeal an flour for the early settlers, lying in disuse on the
banks - mutely attest to the one time existence of the ancient mill.
Mrs. Sanders was born at the old home, removed only a short distance from
the dismantled mill, in one of the most picturesque spots in Iowa.
The venerable stone house was razed eight or nine years ago, and a new,
modern residence was built upon the site - a house of refinement, where generous
hospitality holds court, and where the best families in Iowa City often
foregather to enjoy the pleasures of social life.
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