Fehleisen, Mary Catherine (Ludwick) 1833-1907

FEHLEISEN, LUDWICK, MCCALMONT, ALLEN, BREEDEN, STARK, HAYS, SHULL, BABCOCK

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Date: 2/26/2005 at 09:14:59

Mary Catherine Ludwick was born in Ripley County, Indiana, on the 25th day of January 1833, and was married to Theodore Fehleisen in 1856 on the 27th day of April. She was the mother of five children. The first child, Margaret, died in infancy. The living children are George W., of Madrid; Bertha L., of this city; Lewis F., of Boone, and Mrs. Hester McCalmont, of New Concord, Ohio.

The family moved from Indiana to Iowa. Residing first on a farm near Kellogg in Jasper County, then in the year 1867, they came to this city, where they have since made their home.

Mrs. Fehleisen leaves six sisters. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, of Elkhart; Mrs. Margaret Breeden and Mrs. James Stark of Newburg; Mrs. Joseph T. Hays, of Grinnell; Mrs. Ellen Shull, of Mulvane, Kan., and Mrs. R. L. Babcock of Steel City, Nebraska. She also has two brothers who reside in Nebraska.

During her girlhood days she united with the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church in Ripley County, Indiana. After coming to Newton she was an attendant of the First Congregational Church, when her health permitted and was a faithful student of the scriptures, being a member of the Home Department of the Sunday school.

For more than twenty years she had been in poor health, and during much of that time was a very great sufferer. At last worn out by the long struggle, death come quickly on the night of April 24, 1907.

Naturally Mrs. Fehleisen was a homebody, and her poor health kept her closely confined there. She was devoted to her family. No better type of life than this can be, and nothing better can be said than in the language of Proverbs 31:38 “Her children rise up and call her blessed and her husband also he praiseth her.”

But she loved her friends, and enjoyed visiting them and her relatives, when it was possible for her to do so.

The funeral was held from the home at 715 North Second Street, Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The children were all home for the services and also two sisters of Mrs. Fehleisen, Mesdames Margaret Breeden and James Stark, of Newburg, and a number of nieces and nephews who reside in that vicinity and Grinnell. Rev. A. B. Appleby officiated and on this, the 51st anniversary of their marriage, she was laid away in her last resting place. ~ The Newton Daily News, Monday, April 29, 1907, Page 1, Column 5

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