Obit:  Obituary of Preston Eyre (1859): Delaware Co., PA

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April 29, 1859 
DELAWARE COUNTY REPUBLICAN 

Death Notice DEATH OF PRESTON EYRE. - We have received intelligence of the 
decease of PRESTON EYRE, Esq. formerly of this place. He died at the residence 
of his son-in-law, Gen. CALEB H. BOOTH, at Dubuque, Iowa, on Monday, the 18th 
inst. in the eighty seventh year of his age. For more than sixty years of his 
life, he resided in this Borough and its neighborhood. About twenty two years 
since, inspired by the promises of the West, he removed with his family to
Illinois, where he purchased land upon which he resided for a considerable
period. Advanced years and changes in his family, however, induced him to
leave his farm in the possession of one of his sons, and take up his abode
in Dubuque. During the pilgrimage of our departed friend, many have been
the joys, and doubtless, too the sorrows spread in his path. Few men
possessed a more lively disposition, and none, perhaps, more of whole
souled, open handed and open hearted sociability than he. Warm and ardent
in his attachments, he sought the  companionship of his acquaintances, and
at all times, met them with an expression of cheerfulness, which left no
room to doubt the goodness of his heart. Many of our readers in this county
will remember the sociable and friendly grasp of his hand. Mr. <<
EYRE>>  was a worthy example of sobriety, temperance and regular habits of
life. He was a kind and attentive husband and an indulgent parent. For
fifty five he and his amiable companion, who still survives, lived together
in the affectionate relationship of married life - and now, like the
ripened harvest, in the full maturity of time, he is gathered into the
garner. Mr. << EYRE>> enjoyed in a remarkable degree, up to the time of his 
death, the possession of all his faculties. - He was somewhat dull of hearing, 
but he had a liveliness of step and an erect form that indicated much less 
advanced age.  About a year since, he left this place on his return home, having 
spent some months here with his friends and relations. At that time, he seemed 
to have the promises of years to come, but the trumpets sound of Him who rules
the whirlwind and the storm proclaimed the message of 'Come unto me all ye
nations of the earth,'and to that call there is not, neither can there be,
a denial.