Jacobs, Lucy J. 1842 - 1876

JACOBS

Posted By: Janice Sowers (email)
Date: 4/3/2005 at 17:27:52

TIMES March 2, 1876 Last Page C3

DIED--JACOBS--In Cresco, Feb. 26, 1876, Lucy J., wife of Mr. C. V. Jacobs, aged 34 years.

The deceased was born in Broome Co., N. Y., in 1842. On the 8th of April, 1868, at Elgin, Ill., she was married to Capt. C. V. Jacobs. In 1872 she united with the Congregational Church of this place. She was a true and tender wife, a kind mother, and a faithful Christian,--a most estimable woman in the quiet walks of life to which Providence had called her. God's ways are oftentimes mysterious to us. He had blessed Mr. Jacobs' home with a little son only a few days before He took the loving mother from it to her long home. The baby and two little girls, all the children of the household, were afflicted with scarler feber when their mother was taken from them,--making a sad but sacred home for the grief-stricken husband and father,

Our whole community sympathize deeply with the afflicted household and relatives elsewhere.

The funeral services were held in the Congregational church Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 29; sermon by Rev. A. S. McConnell, her pastor; prayer by Rev. J. Dolph, of the M. E. church; and music by a select choir from all the churches. The church was filled, and her remains were followed to the cemetery, by a large number of sympathizing and mourning friends.

Let us be patient! These severe afflictions
Not from the ground arise,
But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.

There is no Death! What seems so is transition:
This life of morial breath
Is but a suburb of the life clysian,
Whose portal we call Death.
Longfellow

To weary hearts, to mourning homes,
God's meekest Angel gently comes:
No power has he to banish pain.
Or give us back our lost again;
And yet in tenderest love our dear
And heavenly Father sends him here.

O thou who mournest on the way,
With longings for the close of day;
He walks with thee, that Angel kind,
And gently whispers, "Be resigned:
Bear up, bear on, and end shall tell
The dear Lord ordereth all things well!"
Whittler

Second Obit:

Iowa Plain Dealer March 3, 1876, P3, C4

JACOBS--Saturday evening, Feb., 26, 1876, at her home in Cresco, Lucy J. wife of C. V. Jacobs, aged 34 years.