Person:William Bacon (3)

Conflict: Birth Place Ohio or New York

William Bacon was a resident of Mahaska County, Iowa for over twenty-two years.

Notwithstanding his advanced age, he worked upon his little tract of land and

enjoyed excellent health to within a few days of his death. Born in the city of New York in 1795 he was the son of John Bacon who was born in England in 1763, twelve years before the American Revolution and who emigrated to America in 1794/95. John afterwards removed to Washington County, Ohio where he lived for fifty years and died and was buried upon the farm on which he first settled.

William was twice married, his first wife dying at the age of thirty-three years and the last as long ago as 1845/46. William spent the first ten years of his boyhood in New York (we can neither affirm or deny this: EBV)

William was a firm believer in the doctrine of the Universalist faith. Few men were of a more peaceable or kindly nature and he sank to repose without an unkind thought of any toward him and was laid away to rest by gentle hands and loving hearts, with whom his memory will never loose its freshness or fade or wither away.