Jarvis, Frances R. 1869-1913

JARVIS, COLE

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 2/5/2010 at 10:58:35

Funeral For Mrs. Jarvis Last Friday Afternoon

The funeral for Mrs. C. U. Jarvis was held Friday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church at 2:30.

The church was filled with neighbors and sympathizing friends, who assembled to add a parting tribute to one who had gone to the better land, and there were lots of flowers which showed sympathy.

Rev. George Furniss had charge of the services and the music was by Mrs. Dillie Carrier, Miss Ruth Campbell and Rev. Furniss and T. G. Bryant.

The pall bearers were Jas. W. Davis, R. C. Daly, Robt. Miller, O.N. Wagley, T. G. Bryant, H. S. Morrison, J. W. Johnson and C. H. McClean.

Mrs. M. E. Cole of Des Moines, mother of Mrs. Jarvis, a brother, Wm. A. Cole, of Ft. Worth, Texas, and a nephew L. l. Cole and wife of Des Moines, also Mr. Jarvis’ father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James Jarvis of Neoga, Ills., and a brother. F. E. Jarvis of Vincennes, Ind., were here for the funeral.

Frances R. Cole was born Dec. 2nd, 1869 in Mattoon, Ill., and died on her birthday anniversary in Des Moines only a few short days ago. She was married in her native town on May 15, 1907, to Curtu(i)s U. Jarvis and shortly after their marriage they came to this city where they have since resided.

Mrs. Jarvis united with the Presbyterian Church in Mattoon when she was fifteen years of age, and when she came to Newton her membership was transferred to the church here.

Mrs. Jarvis looked to be a strong healthy woman and the picture of health but it was not so for during the past few years she spent one winter in the south in Arkansas where she felt she was better and had said that possibly she and their little five and a half year old son Raymond would spend this winter there.

The death of a loving wife and mother always brings great sorrow but the sudden death of Mrs. Jarvis is especially sad. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis came here without an acquaintance in the city and they were constant companions working together in the Jarvis Bazaar.

They prospered and made friends but they were still constant companions. Then the little son came and her time was devoted to the son but the companionship was extended to take in their own flesh and blood and people have often commented on the devotion of mother and father to each other and to the little son.

None save those who have suffered a similar loss can in any way comprehend the utter loneliness which possesses a man who like Mr. Jarvis, is suddenly bereft of her who is a part of his life and soul. Such things try the hearts and courage of men beyond anything else in the world and are never forgotten.

We wonder why such sorrows come just as they do sometimes and men stand appalled at the loss when it comes home to a man and then he has to get himself together and take up the threads of life again but how different things are.

In his sorrow and bereavement Mr. Jarvis has found many friends who have in a most kindly way shown their sympathy and their aid and assistance will never be forgotten.

People in this day rush along in an apparently selfish manner but in times of sorrow and trouble they pause and so now the sympathy of this community goes out to Mr. Jarvis and his motherless little son.

Mr. Jarvis expects to remain in Newton and continue in business here therefore the first plan of taking his wife’s body back to the old home in Mattoon was changed and there is a grave in the Newton Cemetery which will be carefully tended and where many a flower will be place for wife and mother. ~ Newspaper Unknown.

Transcriber note: Newton Union Cemetery listing has her birth and death date as well as correct spelling of her husbands name. http://www.newtongov.org/Departments/PW/PDFS/Union %20Cemetery%20Burials.pdf
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MRS. C. U. JARVIS DROPPED DEAD IN DES MOINES

The Terrible News is Received by Her Husband About 9 O’clock Last Night

While walking along the streets in Des Moines last evening Mrs. Frances Jarvis, wife of C. U. Jarvis, sank to the walk with a cry of pain and died almost instantly.

A telephone message was received here about 9 p.m. It was phone to the office of Attorney M. R. Hammer. Mr. Hammer went down the street, and Mr. Jarvis was just going into his store on the corner of Main and First Street, having been to the Star Theater.

Mr. Hammer told him of the call and took him up to his office.

The part at the phone asked if it was Mr. Jarvis, then asked if his wife was in Des Moines. When Mr. Jarvis had answered yes to both questions the message came that his wife had dropped dead on the street.

The shock was terrible, as only one can know who has received such a sad, shocking message.

Soon the bell rang again and this time A. B. Sims, of the police force, told the anxious husband that his wife had been down town with her little son and her mother and she was taken with a sudden pain dropped to the sidewalk and died before she could be taken to the mother’s home.

Mr. Jarvis went to Des Moines a few hours later. He told Mr. Hammer before leaving that they would Probably take the wife’s body to Mattoon, Ill. That is the old family home.

Mrs. Jarvis went to Des Moines last week on Friday to visit her mother, Mrs. Cole and a nephew, Lloyd Cole, who worked in the Jarvis store at one time.

Her mother moved to Des Moines to make a home for the grandson while he was in school. He was married recently and is an assistant bookkeeper in the Standard Oil Co’s. office in Des Moines.

When she went away she told Miss Ruth Korff a clerk in the store that she wasn’t going to say how long she would be away; for she always came home sooner than she intended or stayed longer.

Mrs. Jarvis was a very fine appearing woman and in most ways was a picture of health. But she has had considerable trouble with a rheumatic condition and she told the writer this fall that she looked well but was miserable much of the time. She said too that she thought she would do as she did one season not long ago, spend some part of the winter in the South.

Telegrams were received here this morning from Mr. Jarvis’ home folk and they were sent on to Des Moines. ~ Newspaper unknown.