Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1913 — PIONEER NEARS END OF HIS LONG LIFE [ARTICLE]

PIONEER NEARS END OF HIS LONG LIFE

“Uncle” David Nowels Began Sinking at Midnight and Death is Now Momentarily Expected.

Possibly by the time that this paper is being read by its patrons the life of “Uncle” David Nowels will have passed out. His decline, which became more rapid about three weeks ago, has carried him steadily toward the grave and at midnight last night there was a decided change for the worse and throughout the hours up to this time there has been only the faintest spark of life. His body is motionless and to all appearances he is dead, but the heart still bepts very feeble. He can not last longer than a few hours.

He is a pioneer of Jasper county; he lived long and nobly and by his hard work proved what industrious and dauntless men could accomplish in the plains and forests of a new land. Kindly and unostentatious “Uncle” David Nowels has led a life that has brought to him the respect of every man, woman and child in the entire community, and now, at the age of 91, he lays the mantle of a well-spent life aside to accept the reward he has so richly earned.