Julia Ann Morris Smith Cowles

COWLES, SMITH, HULLINGER, KIRK, LILLIE

Posted By: Diane Shough (email)
Date: 6/8/2020 at 13:20:32

"Mrs. Julia A. Cowles, wife of D.C. Cowles, died at her home in Davis City, Iowa, January 19, 1910, aged 77 years, 1 month and 15 days. Her last illness was of short duration, but she had been ailing for the past two of three years. On January 13th she had a paralytic stroke, but rallied from it, and lived for six days when the end came and then a noble woman passed to her reward. Julia Ann Morris Smith was born in Callaway county, Missouri. when she was eleven years of age, she moved with her parents to Mercer county, Missouri, where she grew to womanhood, and was married to D. Corydon Cowles, July 11, 1858. After a year's residence in Mercer county they came to Decatur county, Iowa, and here they have resided ever since with the exception of three years spent in Orange county, California. She is survived by a loving husband, who can say after over fifty-one years of wedded life there never was a cross word between them, one son, Delbert P. Cowles, of Davis City, and three daughters, Mrs. Ollie Hullinger of Davis City, Mrs. Lizzie Kirk and Mrs. Irena Lillie of Orange county, California, twelve grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren, five sisters and two brothers, besides a large circle of other relatives and friends to mourn the loss of a true friend and a good woman. There were present at her bedside when death came, her husband and only son, Delbert, her daughter, Mrs. Hullinger, grandson Edwin Mitchell, and a sister, Miss Hetty Smith, who had always made her home with sister Cowles. All was done for her that loving hands and medical skill could do, but all to no avail....When but a young girl Mrs. Cowles united with the Baptist church at Princeton, Mo., and on June 6, 1880, she by letter became a member of the New Salem Baptist church in Decatur county...A loving wife, a noble mother and true friend has gone to her reward...Funeral services were held at the Union church in Davis City on Friday, Jan. 21st, with Rev. Deyo in charge of the services...Interment in the new cemetery at Davis City."
(The Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa, 27 January 1910, page 1)