Carnine, Lelia (Hough) 1862-1893

HOUGH, CARNINE

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Date: 8/13/2006 at 13:43:07

OBITUARY – CARNINE: - in Pueblo, Colorado, on Wednesday, July 19th, 1893, Lelia E., wife of Rev. R. A. Carnine, of the Colorado Conference, aged 30 years, 7 months and 11 days.

Leila E. Hough was born in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa, December 8th, 1862. From early childhood she manifested the characteristics which endeared her to all with whom she came in contact. Her disposition was peculiarly bright and cheerful. In the home, in the school, in society, in the church, wherever she went she carried gladness and joy with her, dispelling sadness and gloom. In the summer of 1881 she graduated from the Newton High School, as valedictorian. Immediately after her graduation, she commenced teaching in the public schools of the county. For one year and part of another, she taught in the city with great acceptability, winning and retaining in an unusual degree the love of her pupils. In December 1884, during a revival of religion held under the direction of Rev. R. A. Carnine, the pastor of the church, assisted by Mrs. Villars, she, with a large number of others, was led to consecrate her life to active service for the Lord Jesus Christ, and united with the Methodist Episcopal church. On the 11th of January, 1886 she was united in marriage with Rev. R. A. Carnine, and at once entered upon the duties of an itinerant M. E. minister’s wife. Some little motherless ones were taken into her loving heart, and made to forget as far as possible, the loss which they had sustained. Right nobly and successfully did she respond to the calls of home and pastorate.

In the fall of 1886 she left the scenes of her childhood and early life, and with her husband went to Kansas and entered the pastoral work in the South West Kansas Conference, in which they successively served the charges of Florence, Larned and Winfield. The intense heat and high winds of Kansas proving unfavorable to her health, they, in April of 1891 moved to Colorado, and were stationed at Aspen. From there they moved to Pueblo, where her earthly pilgrimage came to a close. On Thursday, the 13th of July, her heart was gladdened by the coming to their home, of a beautiful little boy babe; the little life however went out after a few hours, shortly after which unfavorable symptoms began to appear and spite of all that human skill could do she rapidly drifted away from the arms of those who loved her here, and was taken into the loving arms awaiting her in the beautiful beyond, and on Wednesday morning, July 19th, she quietly and sweetly “fell on sleep.”

On Thursday an immense concourse assembled in the Broadway M. E. Church, Pueblo, to pay their tribute of respect to the wife of their pastor. Eighteen ministers of the different churches in the city marched in procession before the remains from the church to the depot.

On Friday night her remains were brought back by her stricken husband to her girlhood home. One who witnessed that home coming can never forget it. The father and mother, bowed down with grief, yet calmly relying on the promises of their God, brothers and sisters filled with sorrow, but sorrowing “not as others who have no hope,” friends and associates weeping as they saw Leila’s body borne into her old home.

On Saturday evening the final funeral services were held in the church, where she had so long sung in the choir, and taught in the Sunday school, conducted by Rev. E. C. Brooks, assisted by Rev. M. Bamford of Grinnell, and the pastors of the other churches of our city; and just as the sun was setting in the west, at the close of a beautiful summer day, all that was mortal of Sister Carnine, was lowered into the grave, and earth was given back to earth – “looking for the general resurrection of the last day.” Her parents, brothers and sisters, her stricken husband and sorrowing children, cherish her in their loving memories, and look forward with glad anticipation to the day, when all that they loved will be restored to them forever.

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CARD OF THANKS. – For the sympathy and help we received from our friends in Newton on account of the death of our dear Lelia, we wish to publicly record our thanks. May the blessing and hope you brought to us, be yours in the time when desolation comes to your hearts and homes.
R. A. CARNINE, WM. H. HOUGH, ELIZABETH HOUGH

~ The Newton Journal, Wednesday, July 26, 1893.
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We think we are safe in saying that no announcement ever caused so much sincere heartfelt sorrow in Newton and vicinity as that of Mrs. Lelia Hough-Carnine. She was one of the gentile, kind and affectionate women who made ardent friends everywhere and her death was an individual sorrow to each and all of them. ~ The Newton Journal, Wednesday, July 26, 1893.