Howard, Margaret (Creamer) 1854 – 1900

HOWARD, CREAMER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:28

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer April 20, 1900, FP, C4

Mrs. Daniel Howard died last Monday evening after an illness of over three weeks. The funeral occured{sic} on Thursday morning from the Catholic church. The deceased was 47 years of age and leaves a husband and several children to mourn her loss. We will give an obituary notice of this good woman in our next issue. Her death was due to heart failure following pneumonia.

Transcriber’s Note: Calvary Cresco Cemetery shows this was Margaret who was born May 20, 1854 and Died April 16, 1900.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer April 24, 1900, FP, C5

Obituary.
Margaret, only daughter of Michael and Mary Creamer, was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 1853. At an early age she moved with her parents to Howard county, the trip being made overland by team. Settlement was made near Howard Center. Margaret had live brothers four of whom survive her, and although she was married at the early age of sixteen, she never tired of telling about her old home life. October 24th, 1869, she was wedded to Daniel Howard, in Cresco. They were the parents of ten children, two daughters and four sous are living. A few weeks ago she was taken ill with pneumonia and although she received the best of nursing and medical assistance, she finally succumed{sic} to a complication of ailments rendered fatal by a weak heart. Death occured{sic} at 9:15 p. m. Monday, April 16, 1900. It has been truly said: “Mrs. Howard was a woman of many graces, chiefest among them was the gift of making a pleasant home, and of giving to her children the counsel and devotion that should inspire them to constant effort to improve the talents with which they had been endowed. She was not ambitious for herself, but for her loved ones her aspirations were unbounded and her faith in them was complete.” Her heart was centered in the family circle, she dreaded the time that would being “the breaking of old home ties,” she would weep bitterly over a vacant place at the table and sob and pray by a vacant bed. During her last illness she said: “Oh I can die happy. My children are all mine yet, they all love me first.”
The funeral services were conducted by Father McCarthy at the Cresco Catholic church, Thursday morning. Interment in St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

Transcriber's Note: The year of birth varies between the obituary and the gravestone.

Calvary Cresco Cemetery
 

Howard Obituaries maintained by Constance McDaniel Hall.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen