Pioneer Settler of Beaver County and Wealthy Ranchman Passes Away After a Short Illness
John E. Over, one of the earliest settlers of the county and a wealthy ranchman died at his home near Cline, Monday June 21st, 1909, after a short illness of heart trouble.
There is probably not a man in Beaver county who is better known to our people than was John E. Over. He came to this county in the very early days and engaged in the stock business, the only occupation of the people of this section at the time. In those days people were not to be found on every quarter section in fact, there were very few people in the entire county and the population was composed of the ranch owners and their squad of cowboys, perhaps a dozen ranches would include the entire settled portion of the county. But, in those days everybody was acquainted with those within a few hundred miles of each other and it was nothing to speak of having a neighbor fifty miles away. And so it was with John Over. His home was the home of hospitality itself and no one ever thought of passing within a radius of many miles of his ranch without paying him a visit. The latch string was always out and when a stranger darkened his door he received so hearty a welcome that he was sure to come again. In later years when the great change took place in the condition of our country and it was transformed from the home of the cowboy and longhorn steer to that of the thrifty settler Mr. Over did not forget his generous ways of the pioneer. The stranger, though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands.
Although a wealthy man at the time of his death, his condition was not always so. Like most of the pioneers of this wild western section he accomplished his successes by dint of hard labor and life was not entirely free from ups and downs for him. But, he bore his adversities bravely and when his efforts were crowned with success he enjoyed his prosperity quietly. Nobody ever heard him boast of his possessions and he lived in an unassuming manner. He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and a candid outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mould the rude elements of pioneer society into a higher standard of citizenship.
In the death of this man Beaver county loses one of its most respected citizens and his loss will be universally mourned. Beside a host of warm friends there is left to mourn his loss two daughters, two sons, and one brother beside other relatives. His wife preceded him some years ago and awaits to welcome him in that beautiful Home in which there are no parting or sorrows and where death never comes to snatch away our loved ones.
Funeral services were conducted at the ranch Wednesday, June 23, and interment made in the Cline cemetery alongside the grave of the wife and within view of the beautiful ranch home where the couple resided so happily for so many years, where they reared their family and saw them develop into useful and accomplished men and women and where together they bore the adversities and disappointments of a pioneer life which afterward developed into one of joy and prosperity.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to those who mourn the death of the father, brother and friend, and in this the Herald joins most sincerely.
(The Beaver Herald June 24, 1909 back page)
John E. Over, one of the earliest settlers of the county and a wealthy ranchman died at his home near Cline, Monday June 21st, 1909, after a short illness of heart trouble.
There is probably not a man in Beaver county who is better known to our people than was John E. Over. He came to this county in the very early days and engaged in the stock business, the only occupation of the people of this section at the time. In those days people were not to be found on every quarter section in fact, there were very few people in the entire county and the population was composed of the ranch owners and their squad of cowboys, perhaps a dozen ranches would include the entire settled portion of the county. But, in those days everybody was acquainted with those within a few hundred miles of each other and it was nothing to speak of having a neighbor fifty miles away. And so it was with John Over. His home was the home of hospitality itself and no one ever thought of passing within a radius of many miles of his ranch without paying him a visit. The latch string was always out and when a stranger darkened his door he received so hearty a welcome that he was sure to come again. In later years when the great change took place in the condition of our country and it was transformed from the home of the cowboy and longhorn steer to that of the thrifty settler Mr. Over did not forget his generous ways of the pioneer. The stranger, though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands.
Although a wealthy man at the time of his death, his condition was not always so. Like most of the pioneers of this wild western section he accomplished his successes by dint of hard labor and life was not entirely free from ups and downs for him. But, he bore his adversities bravely and when his efforts were crowned with success he enjoyed his prosperity quietly. Nobody ever heard him boast of his possessions and he lived in an unassuming manner. He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and a candid outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mould the rude elements of pioneer society into a higher standard of citizenship.
In the death of this man Beaver county loses one of its most respected citizens and his loss will be universally mourned. Beside a host of warm friends there is left to mourn his loss two daughters, two sons, and one brother beside other relatives. His wife preceded him some years ago and awaits to welcome him in that beautiful Home in which there are no parting or sorrows and where death never comes to snatch away our loved ones.
Funeral services were conducted at the ranch Wednesday, June 23, and interment made in the Cline cemetery alongside the grave of the wife and within view of the beautiful ranch home where the couple resided so happily for so many years, where they reared their family and saw them develop into useful and accomplished men and women and where together they bore the adversities and disappointments of a pioneer life which afterward developed into one of joy and prosperity.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to those who mourn the death of the father, brother and friend, and in this the Herald joins most sincerely.
(The Beaver Herald June 24, 1909 back page)
Pioneer Settler of Beaver County and Wealthy Ranchman Passes Away After a Short Illness
John E. Over, one of the earliest settlers of the county and a wealthy ranchman died at his home near Cline, Monday June 21st, 1909, after a short illness of heart trouble.
There is probably not a man in Beaver county who is better known to our people than was John E. Over. He came to this county in the very early days and engaged in the stock business, the only occupation of the people of this section at the time. In those days people were not to be found on every quarter section in fact, there were very few people in the entire county and the population was composed of the ranch owners and their squad of cowboys, perhaps a dozen ranches would include the entire settled portion of the county. But, in those days everybody was acquainted with those within a few hundred miles of each other and it was nothing to speak of having a neighbor fifty miles away. And so it was with John Over. His home was the home of hospitality itself and no one ever thought of passing within a radius of many miles of his ranch without paying him a visit. The latch string was always out and when a stranger darkened his door he received so hearty a welcome that he was sure to come again. In later years when the great change took place in the condition of our country and it was transformed from the home of the cowboy and longhorn steer to that of the thrifty settler Mr. Over did not forget his generous ways of the pioneer. The stranger, though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands.
Although a wealthy man at the time of his death, his condition was not always so. Like most of the pioneers of this wild western section he accomplished his successes by dint of hard labor and life was not entirely free from ups and downs for him. But, he bore his adversities bravely and when his efforts were crowned with success he enjoyed his prosperity quietly. Nobody ever heard him boast of his possessions and he lived in an unassuming manner. He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and a candid outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mould the rude elements of pioneer society into a higher standard of citizenship.
In the death of this man Beaver county loses one of its most respected citizens and his loss will be universally mourned. Beside a host of warm friends there is left to mourn his loss two daughters, two sons, and one brother beside other relatives. His wife preceded him some years ago and awaits to welcome him in that beautiful Home in which there are no parting or sorrows and where death never comes to snatch away our loved ones.
Funeral services were conducted at the ranch Wednesday, June 23, and interment made in the Cline cemetery alongside the grave of the wife and within view of the beautiful ranch home where the couple resided so happily for so many years, where they reared their family and saw them develop into useful and accomplished men and women and where together they bore the adversities and disappointments of a pioneer life which afterward developed into one of joy and prosperity.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to those who mourn the death of the father, brother and friend, and in this the Herald joins most sincerely.
(The Beaver Herald June 24, 1909 back page)
John E. Over, one of the earliest settlers of the county and a wealthy ranchman died at his home near Cline, Monday June 21st, 1909, after a short illness of heart trouble.
There is probably not a man in Beaver county who is better known to our people than was John E. Over. He came to this county in the very early days and engaged in the stock business, the only occupation of the people of this section at the time. In those days people were not to be found on every quarter section in fact, there were very few people in the entire county and the population was composed of the ranch owners and their squad of cowboys, perhaps a dozen ranches would include the entire settled portion of the county. But, in those days everybody was acquainted with those within a few hundred miles of each other and it was nothing to speak of having a neighbor fifty miles away. And so it was with John Over. His home was the home of hospitality itself and no one ever thought of passing within a radius of many miles of his ranch without paying him a visit. The latch string was always out and when a stranger darkened his door he received so hearty a welcome that he was sure to come again. In later years when the great change took place in the condition of our country and it was transformed from the home of the cowboy and longhorn steer to that of the thrifty settler Mr. Over did not forget his generous ways of the pioneer. The stranger, though a beggar, never failed to find food and shelter if he sought it at his hands.
Although a wealthy man at the time of his death, his condition was not always so. Like most of the pioneers of this wild western section he accomplished his successes by dint of hard labor and life was not entirely free from ups and downs for him. But, he bore his adversities bravely and when his efforts were crowned with success he enjoyed his prosperity quietly. Nobody ever heard him boast of his possessions and he lived in an unassuming manner. He was a man who united sound sense with strong convictions, and a candid outspoken temper, eminently fitted to mould the rude elements of pioneer society into a higher standard of citizenship.
In the death of this man Beaver county loses one of its most respected citizens and his loss will be universally mourned. Beside a host of warm friends there is left to mourn his loss two daughters, two sons, and one brother beside other relatives. His wife preceded him some years ago and awaits to welcome him in that beautiful Home in which there are no parting or sorrows and where death never comes to snatch away our loved ones.
Funeral services were conducted at the ranch Wednesday, June 23, and interment made in the Cline cemetery alongside the grave of the wife and within view of the beautiful ranch home where the couple resided so happily for so many years, where they reared their family and saw them develop into useful and accomplished men and women and where together they bore the adversities and disappointments of a pioneer life which afterward developed into one of joy and prosperity.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to those who mourn the death of the father, brother and friend, and in this the Herald joins most sincerely.
(The Beaver Herald June 24, 1909 back page)
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