HOSKINSON, Riley M

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Obituary: Riley M. Hoskinson 1905

"From Hoopeston Daily Herald November 8. Father Hoskinson died at the bome of his son Stuart F. Hoskinson, North Market street, at 4:50 Tuesday afternoon, of old age and dropsy after an illness of several months. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon under the auspices of the I. 0. 0. F. lodge of this city. Rev. D. S. McCaslin officiating, followed by interment at Floral Hill cemetery. Riley M. Hoskinson was born in Monongalia County, West Virginia, January 26, 1819. At the age of nineteen he was converted and joined the Presbyterian church. He was united in marriage to Martha Fisher in Westmoreland-County, Penn, Nov. 2, 1841. To them were | burn eight children, seven of whom are still living. Stuart F.. the oldest, with whom he made bis home in this city; Mrs. Eliza J. Freeman, Lafayette, Oregon, Mrs. Sarah E, Kirkban (should read Kirkham), Prineville, Oregon: Mrs C. A. McCabe, Neodesho, Kansas Mrs. Mary E. Amy, who died in Louisiana several years ago; Mrs Ida L. Anderson, Port Blakeley Washington; William C. Winslow, Washington; Geo. W. Meeker (typo, Meeker repeated from Camp Meeker, not Geo. W's last name), Camp Meeker, California. In 1853 they moved from Pennsylvania to Rushville, Ill, He enlisted in the army of the North in 1861, in 1862 which he served as commissary sergeant with the 73 Illinois until the close of the war. In 1866 he and his family moved to Auburn Kansas. In 1876 they moved to Coverdale, California, thence to Washington, and settled in what is now known as Eagle Harbor, being the second to build in that place. In 1889 he moved to the state of Georgia, where his wife died seven years ago. He came to Hoopeston with his son in 1902. Mr. Hoskinson has lived a consistent christian since his conversion sixty-eight years ago. His early membership was with the Presbyterian church; while he and his family lived in Pennsylvania and Illinois they allied themselves with the M. E. church. After moving to California they united with the Congregational church, and while at Eagle Harbor, he organized Sunday school that afterwards grew to be a very strong Congregational church When he came to Hoopeston he united with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hoskinson joined the Odd Fellows in 1831 of which he has been a member ever since. He also joined the Masons in the army camp in 1863 of which he was still a member. (The Martha Fisher mentioned above as the wife of Mr. Hoskinson, was a sister of John Fisher of this city, now deceased, and'a half sister of Abel and Thomas Fisher, both residents of Blandinsville, and Matthias Fisher of Novelty, Mo.--Ed.)"

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