Mrs. Rachel C. Egleston 1836-1929

EGLESTON, SMITH, HARRISON, WEIBEL, RAYMOND, JAMES, HOWEL, RICHARDS

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 1/22/2011 at 11:58:50

Fairbank, IA - Feb. 14 -- Mrs. Rachel C.
Egleston passed from our midst very unexpectedly
in the early morning of Saturday, February 09,
1929. On the previous Sunday morning she
attended church. On Tuesday she attended a
meeting of the Relief Corpse, and on Wednesday
a meeting of the Ladies Aid Society. It was
her privilege to be active to the very last
days of her life, though she lived to the
middle of her ninety third year.
Rachel, daughter of Harper and Hetisbah Smith,
was born at Hamdon, Geauga County, Ohio, Aug. 16,
1836. She was the third child in a family of
eight children. The family moved to Wisconsin
when she was twenty years of age and took up
final location in Bremer county, Iowa in the
year 1865. On July 26, 1855 Rachel Smith was
united in marriage to Franklin Egleston. Her
husband served through the Civil War in the
Wisconsin infantry. He died at his home four
miles northwest of Fairbank in 1887.
After her husband's death Mrs. Egleston made
her home among relatives until the death of her
sister which occurred in Oelwein twenty-five
years ago. During these years she has been a
resident of the village of Fairbank. For twenty-
two years she lived with Mrs. Lucinda Harrison,
to whom she was closely bound in a tender and
beautiful friendship. For nearly two years she
has lived in the E. A. Weibel Home, close by
the church and the home of her friend.
She must have felt lonely for her husband and all
her brothers and sisters had long ago departed
but she seldom, if ever spoke of it. Her interest
was in things of today.
She leaves three nieces and three nephews; they
are I. B. Raymond, Henry Raymond and Miss May
Raymond of Petaluma, California; Mrs. Fred James
of Steele, North Dakota; O. M. Howel of Ft. Scott
Kansas and Mrs. I. F. Richards of Fairbank.
Funeral services were conducted at the residence
and at the church on Tuesday afternoon by her
pastor, Rev. Floyd R. Maynard. She was buried
beside her husband in the Grove Hill cemetery.

Oelwein Daily Register - 14 Feb 1929