He married Mary W. Servis, daughter of Tunis Servis of Hunterdon Co., April 26th, 1837. She still survives him. They were at the time of his death the oldest married couple in this part of the County, having traveled life’s journey for sixty-seven years as husband and wife. Mr. Primer was for many years a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and in his ninetieth year delivered an able sermon in Sergeantsville. He was an eloquent speaker and an able debater. Having but few opportunities in youth to acquire an education, yet by self efforts and the assistance of the noted blind instructor William Boggs, he thoroughly mastered the Greek language. As a Biblical scholar, linguist and historian, he had but few equals. From his revolutionary ancestors he acquired love of country held dear by every true-born American. In politics a life-long Democrat and for many years stood high in that party\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s councils.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On July 4, 1863, the Democratic Club of Delaware Township was created, with a Joshua Primmer as its first president.<\/p>\n
He was at the time of death a member of Orpheus Lodge, A. F. A. M., and the oldest mason in the State. No children survive him. His aged widow has the sympathy of the entire community in her bereavement.<\/p>\n
Funeral services at his late residence in Grover on Monday last, Rev. Hiram Forney officiating and delivering an able address from Jeremiah, sixth and sixteenth. \u201a\u00c4\u00faStand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 The text was Mr. Primer’s own selection. Interment at the Locktown cemetery. Mr. Forney was assisted in the service by Revs. Loux of Locktown, Lyon of Sergeantsville, and Williams of Sandy Ridge.<\/p>\n
May our dear old friend sleep in peace. We shall miss his kindly greeting and his pleasant smile of recognition, and as we muse upon his virtues and lament his departure from our midst yet may we find satisfaction in the reflection that his will be a joyous resurrection.<\/p>\n
J. M. Hoppock<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by J. M. Hoppock, March 24, 1904 published in the Democrat-Advertiser This is an obituary, for Rev. Joshua Primmer, who died on March 18, 1904. I wrote about Rev. Primmer in May 2014, in my article \u201a\u00c4\u00faFrom Primmer to Pauch.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 \u00ac\u2020At that time, I had forgotten my intention to eventually publish all of J. M. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,227,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delaware-township","category-jm-hoppock","category-sergeantsville","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9777"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23685,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9777\/revisions\/23685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}