Joshua Likes (1818 - 1897)

LIKES, BUCKINGHAM, SWEET, MOOREHOUSE, MILLINER

Posted By: Barry Mateer (email)
Date: 4/16/2024 at 14:37:22

March 4, 1897
The Weekly Osceola Sentinel
Osceola, Iowa

Another one of the few remaining pioneer settlers of Clarke county is gone. Mr. Joshua Likes died at his home in Osceola, Sunday, February 25 at 12:15 p.m., aged seventy-eight years and seven months. The funeral services under auspices of G.A.R. were held at the residence of his son, John Likes, Monday at 2:00 p.m., Rev. Follansbeo and Chaplain Robinson having charge of the services. A large number of sympathizing friends were present.

The deceased was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 11, 1818, and was married in 1838 to Louisa Buckingham. To them were born eleven children, four of whom, Mrs. Sweet, Mrs. Jo Moorehouse, Mrs. Milliner of Lincoln, Nebraska, and John Likes, were present at his funeral.

He with his family came to Clarke county and settled on a farm in 1851 before a house of any sort was built on the present site of Osceola, the town being surveyed in fall of 1851 and the first house having been built by John Shearer in 1852. When Mr. Likes came here nothing but wild prairie grass covered the present site of Osceola.

Mr. Likes was formerly a blacksmith, and at one time a well digger. He has been a familiar figure about Osceola through all its history and lived here continuously all the forty-six years from its birth. In 1887 he was struck by the fast mail and has been a cripple ever since.

The deceased leaves a wife by second marriage, a brother William and children to mourn his loss.

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