This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRINER, COLCLESSER, OVERHOLZER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gh.2ADI/4311 Message Board Post: >From "Daily News Democrat", 16 September 1910 AGED PIONEER PASSES AWAY John Colclesser, Resident of Jackson Township Since 1851, Died Thursday Evening. After a residence on his old farm in Jackson township since 1851 except for a period of six months last winter when he removed to North Manchester, John Colclesser, one of the best known pioneers of the northern part of the county, passed away at his home there Thursday night at 11 o'clock at the age of eighty-five. His health began to fail about five years ago and in recent weeks his condition had become serious. All his children were present at his bedside Thursday as it was realized that death was near. Mr. Colclesser was born in Huntington county, Pa., Sept. 21, 1825, and at the age of three removed with his parents to Montgomery county, Ohio. There he married Miss Catherine Overholzer and shortly after their marriage in 1851, they came to Indiana, settling on the farm in Jackson township which had remained their home since. Mr. Colclesser retired from active life about ten years ago but continued to live on the old farm until last winter which he spent in North Manchester, returning to Jackson township in May. The eldest of a family of seven children, Mr. Colclesser was the last to be called by death. Besides his aged wife, he is survived by four children, Jacob, who lives on the Mishler road north of the city, H. M., living on the old homestead. Mrs. Mary Briner of North Manchester and Erie Engineer David Colclesser of this city. Mr. Colclesser had been for years a staunch member of the German Baptist church and his wife had been in accordance with the teachings of that faith. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon, the cortege leaving the Jackson township home at 1:30. Rev. Dorsey Hodgen will officiate and interment will be in the Shock cemetery on the Mishler road.