This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Muncy, Dean, Mitchell Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gFC.2ACI/1335 Message Board Post: Hudson Star and Times 7 December, 1883 page 4 column 3 Henry Muncy was born in Ohio, Sept. 22nd, 1823; died in Hudson, Wis., Dec 4th, 1883 being in the sixty-first year of his age. The earlier years of his life were spent in the vicienty (sic) of his berth (sic) place. Here he was married to Miss Mary Mitchell and here their first child, John was born. He moved from Ohio into Illnois where he lived but a few years and again moved, settling in Iowa. In 1860, Mr. Muncy visited Wisconsin, well satisfied with the promise of obtaining a home, he decided to remove his family to this state which he did in the spring of 1861, settling in Menomonie. Here the first daughter Edith was born, and here too the wife and mother sickened and died. In 1868 Mr. Muncy married Miss Lydia J. Dean, a worthy and most estimable lady who proved a devoted wife. In 1872, after a residence in Menomonie of nearly twenty years the family moved to this city, which has since been their home. Mr. Muncy was a man of quiet and unobtrusive habit, esteemed by his associates as a worthy man, a considerate and faithful friend. He was an affectionate husband, a kind and indulgent father. His illness was of short duration; the disease, pleuro-pneumonia, from the first assumed a malignant type, and all attempts to stay its progress seemed unavailing. The stricken family received the sympathy of the enitre community. An invalid wife, her aged mother, and a family of eight boys and girls, the youngest an infant are thus thrown upon their own limited resources, without a fathers experience and counsel to direct and aid them. The older children are examples of devotion to family interests and are worthy the confidence and assistance of their friends. May He who is the "Widow's God, and a Father to the fatherless" comfort and sustain them in their hour of sore trail. Not related.