Rachel Stuart

STUART

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 11/20/2018 at 14:40:40

4 December 1884 - The Local Record

DIED Four miles northwest of West Branch on the 28th of 11 mo. 1884, RACHEL STUART, in the 66 year of her age.

This dear friend was left a widow with her two little children in the very early settlement of this country (her husband, Robert Stuart being removed from her side in the fall of 1854) leaving her in limited circumstances on a newly opened farm and choosing rather to trust in the widow's God, than to risk her children under the care of others, she took upon her own shoulders the burden and care incident to a pioneer farmer's life, and often labored by the side of her little boy in the field so as to shield him from the vices so often found in that early day among those who hired out to work on the farm, and thus by a careful self sacrificing life she was enabled under the blessing of God to raise her children in an honest and upright life and permitted to see them brought to a saving knowledge of our Jesus Christ, while heaven smiled on her efforts in the accumulations of the things of this world, and as the years passed away she found herself and children possessed of a bountiful supply of all that is needful in this world to make life a happy and successful one. First the possession of Jesus Christ and a title to the treasures of heaven; secondly a happy home and pleasant surroundings. Her life was one of unassuming devotion to God and unmitigated kindness and love as a mother and friend, a life that fully proved the truthfulness of the language found in the word of the Lord "Godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the Life that now is and of that which is to come." The counterpart of this life of devotion to her children, loving sympathy with her neighbors and friends and careful and upright life among all, accompanied with a loving and cheerful countenance and words of motherly affection cannot be found outside of that union which binds the Church of Jesus Christ to himself.

The funeral services were held at the dwelling place of the deceased, on the 30th of 11 mo., and the remains were followed to their resting place by a very large company of neighbors and friends. She having fallen asleep in Jesus yet speaks to us in unmistakable language of the blessedness of a life lived with Christ in God.