Laura Janette Moyer Cutshall, 1852-1929
CUTSHALL, PETERSON, JOHNSON, DAVIDSON
Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 6/11/2013 at 19:20:35
Mrs. S.L. Cutshall, well known resident of Spencer for many years, died at her home, Ninth and Miller avenue, early yesterday morning following an illness of seven weeks. Her death, which occurred at six o'clock, was caused from apoplexy.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon of this week at two o'clock. Dr. Herbert Clegg, pastor of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Spencer, will officiate.
Source: Spencer News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; July 25, 1929.
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Funeral services for Mrs. S.L. Cutshall, East Ninth street, resident of Clay county for more than fifty years, who died last Wednesday morning, were held last Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Herbert Clegg, pastor of the church, officiated at the services. A quartet composed of R.L. Jones, L.R. Bellows, Mrs. T.H. Johnston and Mrs. Herbert Clegg, sang "Jesus is Mine," "In That City" and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul."
Pall bearers were C.M. Varney of Dickens, C.S. Weaver, E.B. Squire, J.L. Pitcher, George Dodge and Clarence Fish, all of Spencer. Burial was made in Riverside cemetery at Spencer.
Mrs. Cutshall's death followed an illness of seven weeks, and was caused from a stroke of apoplexy. At the time of her death she was 77 years, 3 months and 22 days of age.
Laura Janette Moyer was born April 2, 1852, at Fellcity, Ohio. When a girl of fourteen years she came wit her parents to Jackson county of this state. Two years later she moved to Buchanan county.
In the year 1870, on the tenth of March, she was united in marriage to S.L. Cutshall. For the first year of their married life they lived in Black Hawk county, after which, with their first born son, Alvin, they came to Clay county. The first year of their life in this county they lived on the homestead of James Carver, two miles west of Spencer, and in the spring of 1872, they moved to their homestead in Lake township which remained their home for 34 years.
Here their entire family, with the exception of the oldest son, were born. Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall were active in the development of the social and religious life of the township during this entire period. In the early years they helped to organize a Sunday school, known as the Meadow Chapel Sunday School, and this afterwards developed into a Methodist Episcopal church organization in which Mrs. Cutshall and family moved to Dickens where they lived until 1915 when they moved to Spencer where their home had been since.
Owing to ill health Mrs. Cutshall has not been able to participate as actively as she wished in the various social and religious activities in which she was interested but her interest to that last was intelligent and keen.
She was a member of the Women's Relief Corps and had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for close to sixty-rive years.
Mrs. Cutshall possessed a religious faith which knew no wavering or inconsistency. She gave herself through all the years to well being of her family. The story of her sacrifices during the grasshopper times is one of amazement to this generation but the hardships of those days were cheerfully and uncomplainingly borne.
Eleven children were born to the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall, two of whom preceded their mother in death, May, three years ago, and William who died in infancy. Surviving Mrs. Cutshall are her husband and nine children, Fred and Ray Cutshall and Mrs. M.C. Peterson of Los Angeles, California, Mrs. A.W. Johnson of Conrad, Montana, Eugene Cutshall of Terril, Iowa, Mrs. Otis Davidson of Dickens and Alvin and Guy Cutshall, also Miss Inez Cutshall of Spencer, thirty-four grandchildren, other relatives and a host of friends.
Among those from out-of-town who were in attendance at the funeral were Mrs. A.W. Johnson of Conrad, Montana, and Fred Cutshall of Los Angeles, California, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Cutshall, and grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Campbell of Minneapolis, Mrs. R.J. Robertson of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Miss Ellen Campbell, also of Hutchinson, Leo Cutshall of Monona, Iowa, and Mrs. Edna Conlin of Denver, Colorado.
Source: Spencer News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; August 1, 1929.
Interment in Riverside cemetery
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