Cowles, Carrie d. 1895

COWLES

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 7/19/2003 at 21:51:35

Death of Carrie Cowles

Many of our people will remember Miss Carrie Cowles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Cowles, who resided a few miles southwest of this city on the Monroe Road, and who about eight or nine years ago moved from here to Ashland, Oregon.

The Ashland Tidings, of December 30th, brings the sorrowful news of the death of Miss Carrie. It will, indeed, be sad news to the young lady’s former associates here, and to the many old friends of the sorrow stricken parents. Following is the notice taken from the Ashland paper:

Carrie Belle Cowles died at her home Saturday, Dec. 28, 1895. The lingering and persistent bronchial and pulmonary ailments from which she had been suffering for a long time gradually worked the destruction of a constitution never very strong and she surrendered her life quietly and peacefully, surrounded by her relatives. Miss Cowles was born in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, and at the time of her decease was 23 years and 4 months old. She came to Ashland with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Cowles, in 1887, and has always filled an estimable and useful place in the circle of her immediate friends and acquaintances. Although of very quiet demeanor, she was a girl of lively imagination and possessed a nature threaded with fine sensibilities and sympathetic tendencies, which led her naturally into active participation in all church work and in that most commendable field of charitable labor performed by the King’s Daughters. She has been an active member of that society and also of the Congregational Church, where her absence from Sunday school, choir and festivals will long be keenly felt. Her nature found it easy interpretation in music, and through that agency it was freely unfolded in the company of her friends, and greatly to their delight for she was a skilled performer on the guitar, the piano and the violincello. The funeral took place at the Congregational Church at 2 o’clock today, Rev. Childs officiating, and the interment at the Ashland Cemetery, which was attended by the King’s Daughters in a body and a large concourse of friends and acquaintances. ~ The Newton Record, Newton, IA, Friday, January 10, 1896, Page 1, Column 3