Mrs. John Hodnett died 1869

HODNETT, HUTCHINS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 2/18/2016 at 20:08:52

The Herald, Dubuque, Sunday, Feb. 7, 1869

FUNERAL OF MRS. HODNETT – The funeral of the late Mrs. Hodnett, wife of John Hodnett, of the St. Louis Times, will take place this afternoon at two o’clock, from the residence of her brother, R. Sheridan, beyond Linwood Cemetery, near the residence of Hon, Timothy Davis. The remains arrived in this city last evening. Mrs. Hodnett was well known in this city, universally respected and beloved, and Mr. Hodnett and his family will receive the sincere sympathy of all their great loss. The burial will take place at Key West – Friends are invited to attend.
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The following obituary notice on the death of Mrs. Hodnett, is from the pen of Stilson Hutchins, an intimate friend of the family, and was clipped from the St. Louis Times of last Friday:

The inexpressibly and duty is our of announcing in a few brief sentences the affliction which has been visited upon our esteemed friend and associate in the loss of an estimable and fondly beloved wife. For ten years she has walked life’s pathway with him, sharing his joys and assuaging as only a Christian wife and mother can, his griefs, suddenly and without warning she had been removed, plunged into the depths of an almost unilluminable gloom a fond husband, a young and tender family, and a wide circle and relatives and friends. Death is sad at all times and in all guises and forms, but the wounds it inflicts are never more keenly felt than when directly against the loved form of one whose smile has made one’s home not merely a haven, where refuge can be found from the storms that rage without, but almost an unthreatened paradise around his own hearth, and in the presence of his living wife and family, our friend could not be otherwise than happy. He found no rivalry there; no grasping unscrupulous enemy; no other desire than that which had its beginning and ending in his welfare and happiness. The fires upon that hearth have gone out – the light of the household quenched forever. Where but a short week ago all was happiness, there is naught now but impenetrable gloom. We’re not the blessed assurance left to him that her spirit rejoices in the abode of life and light, the affliction would be almost unbearable.

Mrs. Hodnett was a native of Herkimer County, New York, where she was born in 1838, being 31 years of age at the time of her death. When quite young her parents removed to Dubuque, where her mother and two brothers still reside. Growing up to womanhood there, and acquiring from the Catholic institutions of learning, then, as now, noted for their efficiency – a thorough education, she became, from her amiability and true admirable traits of character, the general favorite of old and young. She was united in marriage to Mr. Hodnett in 1859, and was borne to him five children – the youngest an infant – all of whom survive her. In 1866 she joined her husband in St. Louis, where they have permanently resided ever since, and where she had already become the centre of an admiring and rapidly widening circle of friends.

The body will be taken today from the family residence, 956 Sixteenth Street, to St. Lawrence O’Toole Church, of which she was a regular communicant, where soleum high mass will be celebrated, after which it will be conveyed to Dubuque.