Scofield, Susan P. (Wing) 1844 - 1899

SCOFIELD, WING, BLAKE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 12/26/2020 at 21:09:24

Elkader Register, Thur., 11 May 1899. From the Mail Press, undated.

At her home in Strawberry Point, Iowa, Friday morning, April 28th, 1899, occurred the death of Susan P. wife of Geo. H. Scofield, aged 55 years years, 3 months and 14 days.

Susan P. Wing, daughter of John and Oliva Wing, was born at Marion, Livingstone county, Michigan, on January 14th, 1844.

In October 1855 she moved with her parents from Michigan to Garnavillo, Iowa, where they resided till April 1861, when they removed to Strawberry Point, where she has continuously resided up to the time of her death. On November 22, 1863 at Strawberry Point she was married to George H. Scofield. Nine children were born to them of whom Matie, Harry W., Ellie, (married to F. J. Blake of Ft Dodge, Ia.), Georgie, Guy, Susie, Bessie and William, with her bereaved husband, brother, sister, aged mother and two little grandchildren survive her, the oldest child Harley dying in infancy.

Mrs. Scofield was a most excellent wife and mother, kind and generous and considerate in all things. She was an extensive reader and well versed in literature and current events. She was a fine conversationalist and had the happy faculty of making everyone feel at home in her presence. She was a loyal adherent to the Unitarian faith and ever took an active interest in religious movements. For thirty-eight years she has been a potent factor in this community for the good and right. Her kindly, genial presence will be sadly missed by all. Mrs. Scofield was of a long-lived family. Her father dying in his eighty-sixth year and her mother still living at the age of eighty-five. Her friends and loved ones had the fond hope and expectation that many years of happiness and usefulness were before her. But Providence ruled otherwise, and early last Friday morning April 28th, after an illness of many weeks and surrounded by her loved ones, her spirit took its departure. A loving wife and mother, a kind neighbor, a faithful friend, a true, refined, noble woman has gone to her reward.

"There is no death; The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in Heavens jeweled crowd,
To shine forever more.
There is no death; An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread,
He bears our best loved things away,
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear Immortal spirits tread;
He bears our best loved things away,
And then we call them "dead."
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all this boundless universe
is life, there are no dead.

The funeral services were held at the residence Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock and were attended by a vast concourse of friends and acquaintances of the deceased, and were conducted by Rev. D. O. Bean. Interment in the Strawberry Point cemetery. -Mail Press.