Death of Edward Mosely.

On Friday, June 1st, after an illness of many months, Edward Mosely, familiarly known as Doe. (Doc??) Mosely, gradually yielding to the inroads of consumption, died in the – th year of his age. He came to Mt. Pleasant about the close of the war from Missouri, attended the first evening school for colored people taught by W. R. Cole. He manifested unusual intellectual ability, and made the most rapid progress. He afterwards attended for a time Prof. Howe’s school. He was temperate, honest, and skillful, a carpenter by trade, and soon won for himself and his aged mother a neat and pleasant home, winning as well as the most sincere respect of all his employers, many of whom were genuine mourners at his funeral, assisting to pay the last sad rites to an esteemed fellow-citizen.

(“The Free Press”, Thursday, June 7th, 1877, page 3)

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Resource provided by Henry County Heritage Trust, Mount Pleasant, Iowa; transcription done by Nicholas Hohenbrink, University of Northern Iowa Public History Field Experience Class, Spring 2025; proofreading done by Mary Anne Bainbridge.

Contributed to Henry County IAGenWeb February 2025.