Due to copywrite issues I will not be posting the complete obituary. I will include information from the obit.
Date of Birth 8 Feb 1845 In Hampton Illinois

Date of death 2 Jan 1930 at home in Lomax Illinois

Adoptive parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Marsden

Military Service Company G 20 th Regiment of the Illinois Infantry Volunteers

Married Mary E. Laman 1867 who died 9 April 1880

Children with Mary are Hatty, Thomas, John R., Edwin A. and Harry L.

Married Emma Huff 1881

Children with Emma-four daughters

Survivors: his wife Mrs Emma Johnson, one sister Mrs Mary Cox of Garden City, Kansas, Three sons, John R,Harry L,Edward A all of Clarinda, Iowa. One stepson B.Clyde of California, Five daughters,Mrs Heddy A Smith of Davenport, Iowa, Mrs Estella Mauer, Mrs Lorena Pence and Mrs Mary Alice Smith all of Lomax Community and Miss Maggaret of Burlington, Iowa.