Emma (Temple) Silver

SILVER, TEMPLE, BLAIR, LIEZ

Posted By: Lisa Walden (email)
Date: 4/19/2020 at 13:54:28

Silver. At her residence in Lamoni, Iowa, March 30th, of la grippe, Sister Emma T. Silver, aged 69 years, 1 month and 8 days.

She was born at Sunning Hill, Berkshire, England, February 22d, 1822; emigrated to Utah in the spring of 1864 in company with her husband, where she resided until May, 1881, when she removed to Lamoni, Iowa, where she has since lived, enjoying church privileges, having united with the Reorganized Church of Christ June 6th, 1870, in Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving baptism and confirmation under the ministration of Elder Thomas Liez.

Sister Silver was a woman of noble spirit and of genuine Christian worth. All who knew her loved her for her many excellent qualities, and in her dying hours she expressed profound gratitude in having so many and such devoted friends.

She exhibited unshaken confidence in the love and saving grace of Christ, and a few hours before her death she said she did not fear to die, for she felt prepared, and requested the Saints to pray that, if it was the Lord’s will, she might die speedily and peacefully. This desire was granted; for as the summer sun sinks quietly down in the golden west, so passed away the gentle, trusting spirit of this beloved Saint, to the God and Father whom she loved and served. Her rest will surely be glorious.

Funeral sermon March 31st, by Elder W. W. Blair, after which the remains were interred in the Rose Hill Cemetery.

“Oh death! The poor man’s dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest.”

Source: THE SAINTS’ HERALD. Lamoni, Iowa, April 11, 1891. Vol. 38. (Whole No. 933) No. 15, p. 238