Eliza Garland 1820-1883

GARLAND, KIMBALL, MOORE

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Date: 9/9/2008 at 22:30:43

GARLAND - At her residence in Van Buren township, Jackson county, Iowa, of dropsy, Eliza Garland, wife of Ebenezer Garland.
Mrs. Garland was born in the year 1820 in Boon Co., Ky. Was married Dec. 19, 1833, and with her husband came to Iowa and settled on the place now owned by them in April 1842, and by hard toil and many privations she and her husband succeeded in rearing and educating a family of eight chldren, now all grown to manhood and womanhood, all living respected citizens, living in different parts of Iowa, and all except one present to shed the parting tear over the remains of a kind mother and to console with the bereaved husband and kind father. Mrs. Garland united with the church at the age of 15. In looking at her record we know her life has been an eventful one. She was called upon to give up loved ones and to pass often under the yoke of affliction. But having in early life placed her confidence and home in the Saviour she had a never-failing fountain from whence to draw strength and consolation. She had been an invalid for several years, but had never lacked for any attention that loving hands could suggest or willing hands could do. It had made the writer happy to notice what loving assiduity and self-forgetting ministration she has been cared for, but now this labor of love is over and this faithful Christian wife and mother has been taken from us to live forever in the presence of her God. As a ripe sheaf she has been gathered into the garden of heaven crowned with the garland of a Christian life. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord from henceforth: yes, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
Funeral services at the residence, conducted by brother N. A. Kimball of Miles, after which the remains were followed by a large concourse of friends to its last resting place by the side of the loved ones gone before.

"Dear is the spot where Christians sleep,
And seek the stream which angels pour;
Oh, why should we in anguish weep -
They are not lost, but gone before."
A Neighbor

(For the children and companion of Mrs. Eliza Garland, who died April 7, 1883)

We have watched that darling mother
As her feeble strength gave way,
and the aching pain would almost smother
That kind heart that's lain away.

Yet, with gladness she was waiting
For the time for her to go,
And that her Lord was long in taking
And the time seemed very slow.

But the father of her children,
And the children were so dear,
That it grieved her most to leave them here.

But who was going to meet her children
That had gone long years ago;
And to that Lord she saw in goodness,
Although the meeting seemed so slow.

And in the hour of her dying
She was speaking of her crown;
And while her children around were crying,
Her good spirit left us when the setting sun went down.

We must mourn, but not forever,
For we know it's for her gain,
And the ties so hard to sever
Are so sad to us who now remain.
Mary I. Moore

DEATH DATE: April 7, 1883
SOURCE: Jackson Sentinel, April 12, 1883 edition