LOE, Delila (WELDON)

LOE, WELDON, HAMM, AVERY, CHASTAIN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/27/2015 at 11:28:51

Obituary ~ Delila (Weldon) Loe
January 10, 1838 ~ December 05, 1916

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, December 14, 1916

DELILA LOE, the daughter of ANDREW J. and MATILDA (HAMM) WELDON, was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, January 10, 1838. She died at Leon, Iowa, December 5th, 1916, age 78 years, 10 months, 25 days.

She was married to MADISON LOE December 24, 1857. To this union three children were born, ICY MAY, who died in childhood, MRS. EMMA AVERY and MRS. IDA CHASTAIN, both of Leon, Iowa.

Sister LOE is the last of a family of eleven children, JOHN WELDON, of Cainsville, Mo., and ANG WELDON, of Davis City, Iowa, nephews of the deceased are the only near relatives surviving.

Sister LOE was a pioneer. She came to Leon in her childhood to make her home with her uncle. She remembered the time when Leon was only a prairie. She has always lived in this community and has seen the growth of the community, of our town, and of its churches.

She was converted under the ministry of Elder J.C. Porter, and became a member of the Christian Church of which church she was a member at the time of her death.Sister LOE comes very near being a charter member of this church.She loved her church enough to defend it at all times. The church life and welfare was a constant topic of conversation. She is not dead but sleepeth, she has only gone to that larger reward which her Christ made possible.

Funeral services were conducted from the Christian Church Wednesday afternoon, December 6, at 2:30, by Henry Esch, Pastor. Interment was at Leon Cemetery.

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