Harriet E. Gano 1816-1891

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Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 7/6/2010 at 17:43:48

Died - Mrs. Harriet E. Gano, at her residence near Postville, Iowa, April 19th, 1891, aged 75 years.

Thus another of our earliest pioneers has dropped the time worn wrap of life and gone into the mysterious beyond. Can the young and rising generation of men and women ever feel the true sense of gratitude we owe to these early pioneers for the possibility of pleasant homes they leave us through the hardships, toil and privations of pioneer life?

Deceased was born in Champion Co., Ohio, in 1816, came to Iowa in 1841, and patiently took up her life line of duty, helping to make a home on the wild and trackless prairie. She made no public profession of religious faith, in the common acceptstion of the term, although in sentiment her sympathy was with the Universalist church. Yet she had a religion, and it was the religion that centered around the sacred shrine of the family circle. It taught her to feed and warm the cold and hungry wayfarer, and to live for those who loved her. Hers was the religion to which we as a nation are all inevitably drifting. It was the religion of the great Emerson, and Jefferson, and Ingersoll, and that true and tried friend of America, the immortal Thomas Paine, who said "The world is my home to do right is my religion." In brief hers was the religion of humanity. Sacred be her memory. -J.D.

~Postville Review, April 25, 1891