MR. HUGH TUDOR ARTHUR. COLUMBUS, LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA.
The late Hugh Tudor Arthur was one of the Welsh pioneers at the Long Creek settlement in Louisa County, Iowa. He was a descendant on his mother's side of Owen Tudor the father of King Henry the VII, who founded the House of Tudor, in which were the strongest kings and queens that ever ruled in England.Mr. Arthur was born June 7th, 1835, at a place called Brynllwyd, near Corris, North Wales.
In 1844 he emigrated with the family to this country and settled on the farm where both his parents and himself died.
September 27th, 1866, he married Miss Elizabeth J. Jones, whose parents were natives of Pennal, North Wales. Of the eight children born to them, five are living.
Mr. Arthur's mother was a sister to the late Williams and Richard Tudor, Cincinatti, Ohio, of the firm Tudor Boiler Manufacturing Company, who were highly esteemed for their business enterprise and personal integrity - qualities which were conspicuous also in the Arthur branch of the family.
Mr. Arthur was a prosperous farmer, a plain honest, just and outspoken man, and generous toward any worthy cause, especially the C. M. Welsh church, in which as a deacon he faithfully served. He never had a very strong constitution. He died of pneumonia on the 25th, January, 1896, and was buried at the Cambrian Cemetery.
"Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."