SHEPARD, Mrs. Rose L. 1850-1901
SHEPARD, HUBBELL, HANEHER, MOINE
Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 11/5/2018 at 21:13:46
Death of Mrs. E. G. Shepard.
Death came with awful suddenness to the home of Mr. E. G. Shepard last Saturday morning and removed from earth the beloved wife and mother.
Her passing was peaceful, so quiet that no member of the household knew the hour of dissolution, she being found dead by Mr. Shepard about 5 o'clock in the morning. She had been in delicate health from heart trouble, and on March 2 suffered a paralytic stroke, which was followed by another a few weeks ago.
She leaves, besides the husband, seven children Mrs. Edward Hubbell and Mrs. C. E. Haneher of Plover, Iowa Byron A Shepard of Minneapolis, Mrs. M. F. Moine of Garner, Iowa, and Florence, Julia and Joe at home. The funeral was held from the Congregational church Monday at 10 a. m. Rev. W. E. Pottle conducting the service. The body, accompanied by the family, was taken to the old home at Edgewood for burial. A sketch of the life of deceased appears in another column.
Obituary
Mrs. Rose L. Shepard, the subject of this sketch was born in Waukesha, Wis., July 26, 1850. During her early years she was trained and educated under the benign Christian influence of her parents, and, being by nature of a kindly and charitable disposition, she readily acquired those humane habits which have made her life so useful and pleasant in the various communities in which she has lived.
June 5, 1869, at Juneau, Wis , she was united in marriage to Mr. Eugene G. Shepard at which place they resided until 1875, when they moved to Edgewood, Clayton county, Iowa. In this city they passed a period of about twenty-two years, when they came to New Hampton, Ia., the place of their present home. It was during this time that her amiable, upright and spotless character, won for her a large circle of loving friends. This number was limited only by the extent of her acquaintances. Being a practical follower of the Great Teacher, and an exemplifier of the greatest and most sublime of divine precepts - "Love thy neighbor as thyseIf" — like the historic Samaritan she went about and administered succor, in the shape of gentle care and motherly kindness to the sick and needy. Prompted by this innate desire to do good unto others, she pursued this charitable mission even at the sacrifice of her own health. It was while she was thus engaged that she contracted the illness which culminated in the complication of ailments which finally overpowered her naturally strong physique. Though the final struggle with life was severe and accompanied much with severe pain yet when the end of her life was at hand all with her was calm and serene. This motherly and beneficent spirit, pure and undefiled, was reclaimed by Him who gave it physical being, May 18, 1901.
This - a neighbor, a mother, and a wife devoted and uniting, is survived by six girls and one boy, a husband, four sisters and two brothers and a father to mourn her loss.
Source: New Hampton Gazette, May 23, 1901, accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives
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