Egbert, Eliza 1796-1868

EGBERT

Posted By: John McCartney (email)
Date: 10/3/2007 at 00:12:21

Eliza (Unknown) Egbert obit
St. Joseph Valley Register
24 Dec 1868, Page 3
South Bend, Ind.

DIED.
At Monona Clayton Co. Iowa, at 8 A.M. December 4th, of disease of the Liver and old age combined, ELIZA, relict of the late PAUL EGBERT of Monona, aged 72 years.

The deceased was confined to her bed for many months, by a kind of paralysis or decline which terminated her life. She anticipated the Great
Teacher, Death, without a shudder or complaint cheered by the presence of an all affectionate family of children and grand-children, supported by thebest medical talent obtainable, and consoled by a firm faith in the blessings of futurity. Long a consistent but not a pretensious [sic] member of the Methodist Church her confidence in the Saviour and a blessed
resurrection, made sickness less painful, and Death less to be dreaded. Hope that reaches beyond the grave is the most desirable of all hopes that can be named.

The writer knew the lamented dead since 1836 -- She was born in 1796 in New Jersey; moved to Preble County, Ohio, where she was married; thence to Warren County where she raised a large family. In 1832 the family moved toSt. Joseph County Indiana at that time a wilderness of prairie and forest,Indians being almost the only inhabitants -- After a life of usefulness,
running through twenty years, Iowa was selected as a final home, and the old folks came to Monona. She was the mother of twelve children. Five were buried in Indiana. The remaining seven, in time, removed to the side of their parents -- an evidence of family attachment not always seen. The deceased was the only one in the world I could call by the sacred name of
“Mother.” Personal affairs do not always interest strangers, but when it is true that eight of her children were once my pupils in an Indiana school room -- long long ago, it seems to me -- and that my identification with the
family by marriage and by thirty years of intimate associations is nearly as the “tie of blood” could make it, the reader will pardon me for remembering so vividly the kindness and virtue of the deceased and for referring with more than ordinary feeling to the loss we have sustained.

Peaceful be thy rest good Mother.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Mr Wood of the M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. Mr Polley of the Baptist Church. A large audience of
sorrowing relatives and sympathizing friends listened to a most impressive and affecting sermon by Mr Wood from John XIV 1.2 3.4
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[Eliza’s maiden name isn’t yet known.]