. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ed March3, 1867, a great help and inspiration to him in his ministerial work, wentto her reward July 2, 1913, during his pastorate at Auburn, and was buriedthere in accordance with her expressed wish to be entombed where shefell from the ranks. Brother Gilmores health failed in 1922, brought onlargely by injuries he received in an automobile accident a few years went to Des Moines, Iowa, to spend his last days with his daughter,Mrs. Grace Gillmore Ullman, where he fell asleep June 25, 1923. Surviv-ing him
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. ed March3, 1867, a great help and inspiration to him in his ministerial work, wentto her reward July 2, 1913, during his pastorate at Auburn, and was buriedthere in accordance with her expressed wish to be entombed where shefell from the ranks. Brother Gilmores health failed in 1922, brought onlargely by injuries he received in an automobile accident a few years went to Des Moines, Iowa, to spend his last days with his daughter,Mrs. Grace Gillmore Ullman, where he fell asleep June 25, 1923. Surviv-ing him are this daughter, a son, Lewis R. Gillmore, of Springfield, Illinois; 120 ILLINOIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1923 one sister, Mrs. E. S. Hubbard, of Spokane, Washington, and four grand-children. All that was mortal of him was brought to Auburn, Illinois, where thefuneral services were held, June 27, 1923. Dr. T. N. Ewing of DecaturDistrict, officiated, assisted by Rev. A. L. Wood, the local pastor. Inter-ment was made in the Auburn Cemetery, by the resting place of his J. A. KUMLER. John A. Kumler for four score and five years so-journed in this land of the dying on his way to theland of the living. He began his mortal march inButler County, Ohio, April 20, 1838, and ascendedtherefrom on the sixth day of his birth month, April,1923. His parents, Michael and Nancy Beam Kumler,were humble folk, living on a farm, and John, like manya distinguished man, first saw the light of life in alog cabin. He early became a toiler on the farm,working sixteen, hours a day. His educational facili-ties were primitive and meager. His first school bookconsisted of a shingle with the large letters pasted onone side of it, and the small ones on the other, whichwas also sometimes used for disciplinary purposes. His first schools, privateand public, were attended from two to three months in the year till hereached the age of 16. He next entered the Otterbein University fromwhich he graduated
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