HULL, Annie Mirbell (SHIRLEY)

SHIRLEY, HULL, NETHERWOOD, PARDEE

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Date: 4/25/2015 at 12:39:54

Obituary ~ Annie Mirbell (Shirley) Hull
November 25, 1845 ~ January 13, 1896

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa

The sad news has come that the editor’s mother, Mrs. J. D. Hull, to whose bedside he was called on Wednesday of last week, died at her home in Des Moines on Monday evening, January 13th, and that she was to be interred on Wednesday at 2:00p. m. at Woodland cemetery, Des Moines.

Obituary.
Mrs. J. D. Hull

DIED – At Des Moines, Iowa Monday, January 13, 1896, ANNIE MIRBELL HULL, aged fifty years, one month and seventeen days.

A dearly loved wife, mother, sister and friend has crossed the boundary line between the “here” and the “beyond.” At a time when she most enjoyed life, when friends were dearest, and all her happiness, the silent messenger came and beckoned, and she followed. Loving friends were gathered around her, quietly and anxiously waiting as opportunity to minister to her, but she knew it not, and recognized none of them. At the very beginning of the fatal attack she passed into a deep coma, from which no medical skill could rouse her. Her malady was Bright’s disease of long standing, but all hoped she would live for at least another year. On Monday, January 6th, alarming symptoms developed about noon, and in a few hours she became totally unconscious, in which condition she remained until her death, the evening of January 13th. Friends had been quickly summoned and were soon gathered around her, but the work of death had begun, and no gleam of consciousness was at any time apparent. All remained an utter blank to her, while it was a week of agonized reality to those who watched. She suffered no pain. The end came peacefully. It was simply the flickering and dying out of the vital lamp. Not a moan of anguish escaped her, not the slightest tremor of the flesh, not a single gasp, or sigh; merely and exhaustion of vitality, a cessation of breathing, and she was gone.

ANNIE MIRBELL SHIRLEY was born at Freeport, Pennsylvania, Nov. 25, 1845. September 22, 1884, she was married to J. D. HULL. She was the mother of four children; OLIVER E. FRANK G., MERL M., (now Mrs. HARRY C. NETHERWOOD) and ZEIL M. (now Mrs. ARTHUR M. PARDEE). Her husband and children still survive her. The daughter resides at Madison, Wisconsin, FRANK G. at Des Moines, and OLIVER E., at Leon, Iowa. The entire family were present when death came, and in addition her only brother, JAMES SHIRLEY, of Centerville, Iowa, with his wife, and MARY E. HULL, of Pitsburg, Pennsylvania, sister of the husband.

On January 15th, she was buried in a beafufiful spot at Woodland cemetery, Des Moines. She was borne to her grave by her husband, her brother and her two sons – loving hands thus performing the last and offices. Tender words of sympathy were spoken by Dr. A. L. FRISBIE, pastor of Plymouth Congregational church.

The wife, the mother, the sister and the friend has gone forever, leaving hearts bowed down, and tears, and blight hopes, and ashes. The end of a noble and devoted woman has come and all that remains to bleeding heart are the remembrances of her great and pure affection, and her sterling worth.

Transcription by Sara Rose Joan LeFleur