CARY, Emma M.

CARY, LEWIS, CHAMBERLAIN, GOLDTHWAIT, PORTER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/21/2015 at 07:13:42

Boone County Democrat
Boone, Boone County, Iowa
August, 1877

Obituary ~ Emma M. Cary
January 25, 1851 ~ August 17, 1877

On the evening of August 17th, 1877, after a lingering illness of typhoid , gently passed to her future reward, Miss Emma M. Cary, a sincere Christian woman, a refined lady, and a ripe scholar. To her numerous friends in the city of Boone, where she has left a fragrant memory, this sad announcement will come with a bitter and melancholy poignancy.

Miss Cary was for three years associated with Messrs, C.C. Chamberlain, N.E. Goldthwait and Mr. Porter, as assistant in the Boone high school, with entire and eminent satisfaction to her teachers, her pupils, and to the community at large. Her memory and her influence is embalmed in the affections of a large class of pupils of this city, just emerging into young man and womanhood, and the molding effects of her Christian virtues, her refined manners, and her scholarly tastes will be a legacy to all who have enjoyed her society and instruction.

At the close of the school year of 1874 Miss Cary resigned her position in the Boone high school and was elected to a chair in the Classical Department of Simpson Centenary College, at Indianola, Iowa. Eminently successful in this position, her untiring devotion to the work prostrated a constitution not adequate to the intense ambition to please and to excel, which was the ruling characteristic of her life. To add one more pang to our regret that one so young, so gifted, so well educated, is thus suddenly taken away, she was just on the point of entering that happy relation with one she had chosen as the partner of her future life, to which most young people look forward with emotions of intense interest and anticipation.

The wedding garments were prepared, and the arrival of the bridegroom, from a distant State, added a tender and melancholy interest to the last sad scenes in the drama of life. “Come to the Bridal Chamber --- Death”

[Emma was born and died at Garden Grove, Iowa, the daughter of Rev. John R. and Eliza (Lewis) Cary. Interment was made at Garden Grove Cemetery.]

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2015