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Obiturary copied from original taken from Laura Barnard Colson scrapbook.
Obituary of Drew Harrell Rosenbalm
D. H. Rosenbalm
The funeral of the late D. H. Rosenbalm, whose death was mentioned in this
newspaper last week, was held, Thursday, April 3, 1924, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. James Yadon, on the Mattingly place, south of town, with interment
in Pleasant Hill Cemetary. Mr. Rosenbalm died April 2nd at 4:45 after an
illness of 12 days. He was 87 yrs. 1 mo. and 28 days old. He is survived
by Mrs. Rosenbalm, 9 children, 57 grandchildren, and 45 great grandchildren.
He and Mrs. Rosenbalm came to Pleasant Hill from East Tennessee 3 years ago,
coming because several of their children had located here. Mr. Rosenbalm
was born Feb. 5, 1837, in Claiborne County, Tennessee and was reared in that
region. March 31, 1859 he was married to Miss Emily Hurst and they reared
a numerous family, 5 boys and 7 girls, of whom 3 girls are dead. The surviving
children are Mrs. Sarah Barnard, Middlesboro, KY; George and James Rosenbalm,
Liberty Hill, Tenn; Mrs. J. F. Mitchell, Tell, Texas; Mrs. W. A. Paris and
Mrs. James Yadon, Lafayette; John and Joseph Rosenbalm, of Pleasant Hill,
Mo.
When the civil war began Mr. Rosenbalm responded to the call of the south and enlisted under the flag of the storm scarred nation that fell, serving throughout the war with Co. K, 32nd Tennessee Infantry. This regiment saw much hard service, including the major engagements of Perryville, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Vicksburg and Missionary Ridge. At Murfreesboro Mr. Rosenbalm's company commander Captain Johnikin, was hit by a minie ball and mortally hurt. Later the woods and dry grass were set ablaze by shellfire and Rosenbalm dragged the captain's body out of reach of the flames, despite shells and bullets.
The old gentlemen's recollection of the 4 years of civil strife were keen and vivid until within a few days of his death, and he loved nothing better than to find congenial company and talk about those serious and grievous time when brother was against brother, which was literally true in thousands of cases. Mr. Rosenbalm always described the engagement at Murfreesboro as one of the most bitter of the war so far as his experience ran, although they were all terrific enough. For no war, not even the world war, saw struggles more bitterly intense than those fought by the soldiers of North and South from 1861 to 1865.
In religion, Mr. Rosenbalm was a Primitive Baptist, joining the congregation of that faith at Big Springs, Claiborne County, Tenn. His memberdhip covered a period of 51 years and the greater part of that time he served his congregation as deacon. But wars and rumors of war are over as...
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Obiturarys copied from originals taken from Laura Barnard Colson scrapbook
Obituary
Mrs. Emley Hurst
Early in life she became a member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Big
Spring Tn. of which she was a consistent member. She was married to D. H.
Rosenbalm in 1859 and to this union twelve children were born. Mr. and Mrs.
Rosenbalm moved to this community in October, 1920. Mrs. Rosenbalm was preseded
in death by her husband 4 years ago, last April. Since that time she had
lived with her children, having made her headquarters with her daughter,
Mrs. James Yadon. She had been ill about four months, caused from enlargement
of the liver and gall stone. She is survived by seven children. George, of
Maynardville, Tenn., James, of Knoxville, Tenn., Mrs. Susie Mitchell, of
Skellytown, Texas, Mrs. Martha Paris, Mrs. James Yadon, John and Jasper Rosenbalm
of this vicinity. She also leaves a sister Mrs. Cordelia Satterfield, of
GraingerCounty, Tennessee, four brothers, Alex, Frank, Perry and Bill Hurst.
She was born in Claiborne County, Tenn. November 7, 1841. In 1842 the Hurst's
decided to emigrate to Missouri. They journeyed by house boat down the Clinch
river and the Tennessee to the Mississippi, then they went by steamer to
St. Louis and up the Missouri to Western to make their home among the pioneers
of Buchanan County, Missouri. But Missouri did not hold the appeal to the
Tennessee family that they had expected and they longed for the more Southernly
climate of the Tennessee Hill country. When Emily Ann was five years old
they returned to Claiborne County. There she spent most of the rest of her
life. Marrying D. H. Rosenbalm on March 29, 1859, 12 children were born to
them, of whom 11 were reared to manhood and womanhood. The 7 who survive
their mother have been named. In 1920 Mr. and Mrs. Rosenbalm came to Missouri
to spend their declining years with their children who moved to this county.
Four years ago Mr. Rosenbalm died in his 86 year. Now his wife having lived
a full life, loved as mother and grandmother, and in the comfort of her Christian
faith has joined him. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at 2:30
o' clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Yadon, Rev. Hall in charge. There
were a large number of people present. Many beautiful floral offerings. Her
granddaughters were the flower girls. Lizzie and Barbara Rosenbalm, Mrs.
Emily Raffurty and Wilma Blazer: her grandsons the pallbearers, Fate, James,
and Austin Rosenbalm, William Yadon and Clarence Parris. Interment in Pleasant
Hill cemetary by the side of our dear father to await the resurrection.
Written by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Yadon
Celebrate 64th Anniversary Dinner Sunday In Honor of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Rosanbalm A dinner attended by some 50 members of the Rosanbalm families of this vicinity, was given at the Jasper Rosanbalm farm several miles east of Pleasant Hill, Sunday, in observance of the 64th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Rosanbalm. Mr. Rosanbalm, 86, was born in Claiborne County, Tennessee, in 1837, and Mrs. Rosanbalm, 82, was born in that county in 1841. They were reared and married there, living in that county throughout the married life until three years ago when they came to the Pleasant Hill community, attracted by the fact that five of their children make their home here - W.L., Jasper and John Rosanbalm, Mrs. James (Mary) Yadon and Mrs. W.A. (Martha) Parris. There were 13 in this family of children, all told, and of these 11 lived to maturity, nine of whom survive. There are also 57 grand-children and 33 great grand-children, a total of 90. Mrs. Rosanbalm was a Hurst and in her early girlhood she came by wagon from Tennessee to Missouri, the Hursts settling near what is now St. Joseph, Mo., before there was stick or stone of that now great city. But the Hursts were not satisfied in that then wilderness and within a year they loaded their wagons and returned to Claiborne County.
The Civil War came on and Mr. Rosanbalm, leaving his young wife in their log cabin home went forth to fight for the South, following the fortunes of the Confederacy for four years. Mr. Rosanbalm has many vivid memories of that memorable period, but one of the most distinct (because of the tragic tinge at the time, despite how laughable it may now seem) was when Federal raiders got her intended meat supply.
In a log pen about one hundred yards from the cabin, Mrs. Rosanbalm was fattening a hog which she planned to have butchered for meat for the winter. But one night she heard a terrific squeal from the hapless porker. She was afraid to go out, but had an idea Mr. Pig was being annexed by the Yanks. Which was the case. Next morning all that Mrs. Rosanbalm found of her pig was his skin.
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