Mary Elizabeth Thompson Harlow

HARLOW, THOMPSON, MORRIS, RAWSON, DAVIS, GLADSON, BURGAN, SALTS

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 7/20/2012 at 22:42:11

On Friday evening, October 29, 1897 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Wallace, of Tekamah, Nebraska, occurred the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Harlow, aged 76 years and 27 days, of pulmonary consumption. The body was brought back to Corning on the Saturday evening train and taken to the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. L. M. Allen, where the funeral ceremonies occurred Sunday at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev. J. A. Lovejoy, assisted by Rev. W. O. Allen. The interment was made at the quincy cemetery, where for thirty-one years has rested the remains of her late departed husband, Hiram L. Harlow, a pioneer settler and one of the fathers of Free Masonry in Adams County. A large concourse of friends paid their last respects to grandma Harlow and followed her remains to their last resting place.
The pall bearers were selected from the old time friends of the deceased. A remarkable coincidence is the fact that of the six, five were present at the obsequies of her departed husband, while two had officiated as pall bearers. They are as follows, J. W. Morris, Dr. A. A. Rawson, F. M. Davis, Marion Gladson, F. Y. Burgan, and Dr. A. J. Salts.
Elizabeth Thompson Harlow was born in Jackson County, Indiana, October 2, 1821. She was united in marriage with Hiram L. Harlow, January 2nd, 1840.
To them were born twelve children, eleven of who still survive her as follows: Mesdames J. J. Query, George P. Brown, George E. Crow, and Merriman Harlow of Corning; Mrs. J. W. Wallace, of Tekamah, Nebraska; Mrs. Barney Cavanaugh of Atlantic, Mrs. H. C. Booker, of Omaha, Hiram of Napoleon Boneparte, and William J. Harlow, residing in Missouri. Mrs. Celestus Burch, a former resident of Douglas Township, passed away several years ago in Dakota.
In 1855, the family moved to Montgomery county, Iowa, then a wilderness, locating close to the present site of Villisca. After residing there some years, they removed to Brooks, and later to near Quincy, where for many years, Mr. Harlow was a prominent figure in church, social, and political life. Grandma Harlow was reared in the Methodist faith and exemplified in her life the teachings of the scripture. The sorrowing relatives are not alone in their grief. Commingled with their tears were those of a large and cherished assembly of friends who had known and loved, and in turn were loved by the deceased.
Of the survivors of Grandma Harlow's parental family, only one remains, her sister, Mrs. Martha Harlow, of this city, widow of the late James Harlow of Brooks, a brother to Mrs. Harlow's deceased husband.
Adams County Free Press, November 4, 1897, page 1