Obituary Record

John A. Erskine
Died on 9/15/1921
Buried in Blair Cemetery

22 Sept., 1921 - The Enterprise - John A. Erskine

John A. Erskine was born in Ontario, Canada March 27, 1843, and died at Crowell Memorial Home, Blair, Neb., Sept. 15, 1921, aged 78 years, 5 months and 19 days.

Mr. Erskine lived at home with his parents on the farm in Canada until he was 27 years old at which time he married Susan Gallinger and came to Nebraska, locating near Neligh. About one year later his young wife died, and the deceased took the body back to the old home in Canada. Later he married Kate Cameron who died three years later, leaving a little son, Allen Campbell, who died at the age of ten years. On July 24, 1882, Mr. Erskine married Mary Jane Stitt, and to this union were born three children, William Stitt, John William and Pansy Blanch, the two sons having preceded the father to the land of rest, and the daughter, now Mrs. A. W. Wiley of Bristol, Neb.

Father Erskine was a sincere, hard working man, a devout Christian, a member of the Presbyterian church for some years, but later a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, becoming a member of the local M.E. church June 23, 1920. He moved from Canada the last time in 1885, and located on a farm near Tilden, Nebr., where he resided until 1894 at which time he and his family took up a homestead in Boyd county, Nebraska where he lived near Lynch until April, 1920 when he and his wife came to live at the Crowell Memorial Home.

Brother Erskine leaves behind his aged wife, his only daughter, two brothers, R. J. of Omaha and George of Ottawa, Canada, one sister, Mrs. Sarah Harvey of Carys Mill, N.Y. and two grandchildren, John and Florence Wiley of Bristol, Nebraska and many friends.

The funeral was held from the Crowell Memorial Home, the services were in charge of the writer, pastor of the local M.E. church, assisted by the Rev. C. M. Foreman, pastor of the local Baptist church. The body was laid to rest in the local cemetery September 17, 1921.

“For he looked for a city which hath foundation, whose builder and maker is God."

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #131394764

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 9/22/1921


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