Newcom, Emma Caroline (Axtell) 1847-1896

AXTELL, NEWCOM

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 7/23/2003 at 21:04:24

Death of Mrs. Emma Newcom

After many weeks of intense suffering, this good woman found release last Tuesday morning – her grand and beautiful Christian life going out with the close of the old year, which had been fraught with so much of anxiety and pain to her. Some weeks ago she went to Iowa City to submit to an operation for the removal of a cancer of the breast. The case was a hazardous one, but she took her chances, and at first the indications were that a permanent cure had been effected; but alas, the treacherous disease soon again renewed its deadly attack, resisting all efforts of physicians and friends to check its advance. Death came as a welcome messenger bring release from her intense suffering.

Emma Caroline (Axtell) Newcom was born in Morristown, New Jersey, July 7, 1847. Early in life she united with the Presbyterian Church of that place. In 1881 she came to Newton, Iowa, and on June 23rd of that year united in marriage with Silas Axtell, whose death, July 26, 1889, she was left to mourn. April 9, 1882, she united with the Lutheran Church of this city by letter from the Presbyterian Church of Morristown, New Jersey. She has since lived a consistent and exemplary Christian life, manifesting a deep interest in all the different departments of church work and especially in the Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society, of which she was a life member, and no less in the welfare of the unsaved.

December 1, 1891, she united in marriage with Samuel G. Newcom, by whose departure from this life she was again left alone, April 16, 1893. Since then her life, though lonely, has ever been radiant with cheer and love. After a time of intense suffering she found a happy relief in her departure to be with her Lord and Master at 7 a. m. on Tuesday morning, December 31, 1895, aged forty-eight years, five months and twenty-four days.

The funeral services took place from the home of Mr. N. K. Snow, on Wednesday, January 1, 1896, at three o’clock p. m., Rev. Jacoby officiating, Rev. E. J. Rice of the Presbyterian Church assisting. ~ The Newton (IA) Record, Friday, January 3, 1896, Page 4, Column 2