Obit provided by: Joyce Tinsley....thx Joyce!!

SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1892
After a long and useful life, Mr. John Logan Dawson, Sr., passed to a better life at 7 P.M. Wednesday, in the 87th year of his age. In April 1891, at our request, Mr. Dawson wrote the following account of his life, which we give verbatim:
"I was born in Lincoln county, Ky., on the 2d day of September, 1806. My wife, Mary Ann Swope, daughter of Benedict Swope, of Garrard county, was born February 18, 1818, and we were married July 19th, 1832.
We have been married nearly 59 years, have raised 12 children, 10 of whom are now living, six sons and four daughters. All are married and have families, except James J., the oldest son. Have 38 grand and 5 great-grand-children.
I had almost uninterrupted good health up to about five years ago, when I had a bad spell of pneumonia, which terminated in bronchitis, and my weight of 210 pounds has been reduced to 165 pounds.
Myself and wife joined the Christian church at Givens' in the year 1837. In due course of time I was appointed a deacon, which office I held until the death of my father, Elder Elijah Dawson, who died June 2d, 1855. Then I was chosen elder and exercised that office with others until the removal and rebuilding of the Christian church at Junction City. Then myself and wife united with the Christian church at Stanford. I was selected to become an elder in that church, but declined on account of my age and affliction.
My father, Elijah, was born in Amherst county, Va., and came to this county with his widowed mother and her family of four children, two sons and two daughters, he being only ten years old when he came.
He married Sally, only daughter of James Logan, deceased, who was a pioneer from Virginia in an early day to this county. He died in 1828 and was buried in the old Buffalo burying-ground.
My mother, Sally, had four brothers, John, Robert, Batey and Matthew, all now dead. Batey Logan's sons, Dr. Dave Robert and Allison, are living in Boyle county and are the only Logans known to be akin to the Dawson family in this part of the country."

Mr. Dawson retained his mental faculties to the last and seemed perfectly conscious of his condition, to which he was perfectly resigned. As the clock would strike he would say, "Another hour nearer the end," till at last the flickering light went out and the faithful christian, the upright citizen and the model husband and father had been called to his reward in a better world. In addition to his other good qualities, Mr. Dawson was by nature and practice a democrat. He began voting that ticket when Andrew Jackson ran for the presidency and since then had never scratched a ticket. The last time we talked with him he expressed a desire to live long enough to wind up his honorable voting career by casting his ballot for Grover Cleveland, of whom he was an intense admirer. For the grand old woman who has stood by the deceased for so many years there is sincere sympathy and prayers that she may find grace to sustain the affliction. Mr. Dawson has left the rich inheritance of a good name to his children, who should, and doubtless do, thank God for that as well as that he was so long spared to them. After the funeral sermon by Elder Joseph Ballou at his late residence this morning at 10 o'clock, the remains will be laid away in the old family burying-ground.


"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"