Ridlington, Mary (Tucker) 1823 – 1915

RIDLINGTON, TUCKER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 1/23/2021 at 08:48:34

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Nov. 19, 1915 P-FP C-3

OBITUARY
Mary Tucker was born in Thurlby, Lincolnshire, England, June 29, 1822, and died at her home in Cresco, Ia., Nov. 15, 1915. On July 4, 1849, she was united in marriage to Joseph Ridlington, of Cowbit, Lincolnshire, the Rev. Samuel Wesley, a third cousin of John Wesley, performing the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Ridlington sailed for America in April, 1851, and settled in Ohio on what was then known as the western reserve. Three years later they came farther west and spent three years at Davenport, when Mr. Ridlington began his work in the ministry, in which they continued until 1866, when Mr. Ridlington’s health became impaired and he retired from the active work of the ministry. At this time they moved to Cresco where since they lived and wrought in the local church until Mr. Ridlington’s death on November 20th, 1910. Since that time Sister Ridlington’s health health {sic}has been somewhat shattered, and her loneliness and grief, and some physical breaking down marked her for the grave. She realized the end was near and repeated over and over again, “Why can’t I go, why can’t I go?” She had remarkable consciousness almost to the very last. Mrs. Ridlington had no immediate relatives in this country, though a niece of her husband has been beside her bed the latter part of her sickness; her own family all live in England. A large number of friends and neighbors will greatly miss from their midst one whom they had learned to appreciate and to love.
Funeral was conducted from the home in charge of her pastor, Rev. Will Kirwin, of the Methodist Church, with the sermon by Rev. John Gammons, a former pastor, and interment was made at Oak Lawn Cemetery.

Transcriber’s Note: Her gravestone shows she was born in 1823.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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