Childers, Arnon (Ball) 1846 - 1923

CHILDERS, BALL, MILLER

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 1/14/2022 at 09:33:25

Elkader Register, Thur., 20 Dec. 1923. Strawberry Point column.

Arnon Ball Childers, daughter of Japeth and Eliza Miller Ball, was born at Elizabeth, Ill., March 4, 1846. During the early spring of 1856, her parents moved with their family of six children to Strawberry Point. They bought what is known as the Ball homestead east of town where Mrs. Childers passed her youth and young womanhood. On October 25, 1875, she was united in marriage to Bailey Childers, with whom she lived happily for half a century, lacking two years. Soon after her marriage, she and her husband bought a part of her father's farm and on that founded a home where they lived until seventeen years ago when they moved to Kingfisher, Okla., where they have since resided.

Arnon Childers lived a noble and exalted life. To her relatives and friends, it was a perfect life. In her __________ and sacrifice of her time and pleasures for aiding others in sickness, adversity and sorrow, she had no equal, and these virtues will long be remembered by those indebted to her. To her family she was deeply devoted, and her sorrowing husband and only daughter, Eliza, are left lonely indeed. Of a family of twelve, Mrs. Childers death leaves only one, Japheth Ball of Arlington. Besides her husband and daughter, she leaves a niece and nephew, Mrs. Jessie Ball Miller, and Gerald Ball, whom she reared from childhood, and a host of other relatives and friends to mourn her decease.

Her health has been poorly for several years and on Dec. 8th, she suffered a stroke of appoplexy and on Dec. 12, 1923, she peacefully passed to her home in the Great Hereafter. Accompanied by her husband and daughter and niece Mrs. Jessie Ball Miller, Mrs. Childers was brought to her childhood home. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Frizelle, pastor of the M.E. church, were held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Rawson on Dec. 16th, and she was laid to rest in the beautiful cemetery beside the parents and friends she loved.