Elvira Wood Tyler 1830 - 1894

TYLER, WOOD, RANCK, FORREST

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/19/2013 at 01:30:25

In Remembrance
The death of Mrs. Elvira Wood Tyler occurred after a long and painful illness on Thursday, a.m., April 26th, at her late home in Green, Ia. She was born in Medina county, Ohio, and was joined in marriage to Mr. Geo. M. Tyler, Jan. 11, 1852, after which he took her a bride to his home in Fremont, Ohio. They came to Greene in the spring of 1878, where they have resided up to the present. In her severe and protracted sufferings she exhibited great cheerfulness, patience, fortitude and resignation. She leaves behind to mourn her loss, her husband, one son, Mr. R.G. Tyler of Greene, and two daughters, Mrs. Ranck of Rock Rapids, and Mrs. Forrest of Estherville, Ia., with whose tender and untiring ministrations she was comforted to the end. Seldom does a mother receive at the hands of her daughters such loving, watchful care, one or both being ever at her side assisted by the faithful offices of their father and their aunt, Mrs. Hides, of Fremont, Ohio. The funeral services were conducted by the pastor of the Presbyterian church on Friday, April 27thh, at 4 p.m., a large and sympathetic audience being present, filling the church. The casket was beautifully adorned with flowers, among which was a handsome bouquet from the family and a pillow of flowers on which the name “Mother” appeared in letters of royal purple – a large bunch of Easter lilies and a cluster of roses from her lady friends of the Presbyterian church, with a sickle of roses from the Ladies Aid Society, also a tribute of cut flowers from many others.

So we pass from earth. The “silver cord is loosed” the “golden bowl is broken,” the “pitcher broken at the fountain” the “wheel is broken at the cistern” and cherished friends “go to their long home and the mourners go about the streets.” (Emmet County Republican, Estherville, IA, May 3, 1894)