Jones, Melvina Rhoda Horseman (1846-1888)

JONES, HORSEMAN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/24/2017 at 14:53:09

Article included in Lawn Hill Cemetery, Stanhope, Iowa scrapbook (some taken from The Freeman Jan 25, 1888 and the Webster City Tribune, March 30, 1887)

Mrs. John Jones died January 18, near Stanhope, after an illness of more than one year. She leaves a husband and ten children to mourn the irreparable loss of a loved and loving wife and mother. Friends for miles around were at her bedside for many days before she died, doing all they could for her until the last, for which she expressed her sincere and heartfelt thanks for the kindly assistance and favors that so many have bestowed on them during her illness and death. Before she died she bid her neighbors good bye and asked them to meet her in heaven, calling her husband and children to her bedside and begged them to prepare to meet her in heaven. She was willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Dead: Mrs. Jones of Clear Lake Township, died on the 17th, after a painful illness of many months at the age of about 47 years. Many relatives and friends were left to mourn the loss of this excellent and generally esteemed woman.

Webster City Tribune, March 30, 1887 under Stanhope news heading states Mrs. Jones, who has been very sick for the past month, we are sorry to say is not improving very fast - if any; but we hope that a change for the better may soon take place.

Here are some sayings of Mrs. Jones, by one who was at her bedside for some time before she died.

My neighbors, I bid you adieu, For I cannot longer be with you; I am going home to that beautiful land; There to meet the Holy Heavenly Band. Husband, I bid you a loving farewell. How I loved you, none but I can tell; I want to meet you on Canaan's shore - where sorrow and sickness are felt no more. Pray that Jesus may cleanse you, and in you a spiritual life renew. My dear children, I bid you good-bye, I hope you will never the Savior deny; But take up your cross and follow him. He will keep you from temptation and sin; and when death shall come to you, and meet me in that Glory Land, And we will ever be a Happy Band.
Submitted by: Barbara Robinson Galbraith

[burial at Lawn Hill Cemetery, southeast of Stanhope, Iowa]