AlbumsJay County Obituaries
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The Portland
Commercial, Tuesday, March 26, 1901, page 1
Mr. Denney has been ill for
some days, and declined rapidly from the first.
Within the last three days it was plainly evident that his restoration to
health was beyond human power, and the end could only be awaited, no hope of
recovery being at hand.
Thursday night the stricken
man began to sink, and as the daylight of Friday morning became dawn his life
ebbed away.
The funeral services will
take place from the First Christian church, east Main street, Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock, conducted by Revs. O.L. Pride and Fred Stovenour.
The interment will be in Green Park cemetery by Baird & Hardy.
The deceased was a member of
the I.O.O.F. and Masonic lodges of the city.
Ira Denney
was born in Gallia county, Ohio, March 8, 1824, being a son of Lewis and Felicia
LeClere Denney. His father was a
native of North Carolina, born in 1797, and removed with his parents to Gallia
county, where he was married in 1821.
His wife was of French parentage.
Ira Denney was reared on the
home farm in his native county and succeeded in acquiring sufficient education
to enable him to teach, and by that means he earned sufficient money to defray
the expense of attending the academy at Gallipolis.
He made teaching his profession until 1850, and in August of that year
was elected clerk of the court of this county, assuming the duties on October 10
of the following year. He was
elected for a term of seven years, and by virtue of this change his time expired
in 1855. He was re-elected and
served a second term of four years.
He was married to Miss Belinda
Miller, and as he was the county clerk he issued his own marriage license.
He had been a resident of Jay county since 1847 and of Portland since
1850. He was a prominent member of
the Masonic lodge of the city, and together with General Shanks, whose life
ended some weeks ago, was among the oldest of the membership of the order in
Portland.
Mr. Denney was a
conscientious member of the Christian church, and for a period of two years held
the office of secretary for the Union college, and for a number of years was a
trustee of Merom college, Sullivan county.
By his energy and frugality Mr. Denney attained quite a competence,
although hampered by the uselessness of a portion of one arm.
