MICHAEL E. DINKEL

MICHAEL E. DINKEL, SON OF HARRY AND JESSIE DINKEL, WAS BORN IN BRIDGEWATER, VIRGINIA, JUNE 8, 1849, AND DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHTER IN BENTON, IOWA, OCTOBER 14, 1924 AGED 75 YEARS, FOUR MONTHS, AND SIX DAYS.  IN EARLY CHILDHOOD HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO CEDAR COUNTY, IOWA, WHERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD.  ON JULY 4, 1870, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARTHA ABRAMA AND TO THIS UNION WERE BORN THREE CHILDREN, TWO DAUGHERS AND ONE SON: FRANCIS WATSON OF REDDING, MAUDE HAVILAND AND CLAUDED DINKEL OF BENTON.  HIS WIFE PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER 11, 1911.  BESIDES HIS CHILDREN HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH SIX SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS, ALL LIVING AT A DISTANCE EXCEPT ONE BROTHER, J.A. P. DINKEL OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP; ALSO EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN AND MANY NEPHEWS AND NIECES AND A HOST OF FRIENDS.  THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE M.E. CHURCH IN BENTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK A.M., CONDUCTED BY REV. T.S. RHOADES ASSISTED BY REV. FRED AUGUSTINE, AND THE BODY WAS LAID TO REST IN THE MARSHALLTOWN CEMETERY.