Jobes, Ann Eliza (Bowen) 1819-1895

JOBES, BOWEN, MARVIN, CHURCHILL, TAYLOR

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Date: 5/2/2005 at 15:52:45

The Newton (IA) Record, Friday, August 30, 1895, Page 1, Column 3

Jobes, Ann Eliza (Bowen)

Mrs. A. E. Jobes died at the Churchill House in Newton, Iowa, on the morning of Tuesday, August 27, 1895, aged 76 years and 3 days.

Ann Eliza Bowen, daughter of Pardon and Maria (Marvin) Bowen, was born in Collins, Erie County, N. Y., August 24, 1819. On the 4th of January 1837, she was married to Henry C. Jobes. In 1855 they moved to Albany, Wisconsin, where she remained until after the death of her husband, which occurred July 10, 1881.

Mrs. Jobes was the mother of two children: Hiram B. Jobes, of Stuart, Iowa, and Ellen Maria (Churchill) of this city.

After her husband's death, she came to near Prairie City, and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Churchill. She afterwards moved into Prairie City and remained there several years and also lived a short time each in Stuart and Des Moines. When Mr. Churchill purchased the hotel in this city, she came here to make her home.

When but a child she made a profession of religion, and upon removing to the west, united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she remained a faithful member until she was called to her home. Although the infirmities of age prevented her regular attendance at the church services, she identified herself with her own church, shortly after moving to this city, on June 18, 1895.

For a number of years Mrs. Jobes has been a great sufferer, but patient and thoughtful of those who were attending her. Upon last Thursday morning she was taken violently ill, with inflammation of the bowels. On Monday morning it became evident that the end was near at hand. She sent her pastor word and on Monday afternoon, at her request, he administered to her the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

In her conscious moments she had all the members of the family, as well as all with whom she was brought in contact in the hotel, called to her room, and in a manner which can never fade from their memory implored them to commit their lives to the service of Jesus Christ. During Monday night she began to grow rapidly worse, and Tuesday forenoon her spirit was released from its prison house, and went home to her God. As it was decided, in compliance with her expressed wish, to take the remains to Wisconsin for burial by the side of her husband it was necessary to have the funeral services on Tuesday evening. They were accordingly held at 8 o'clock of that evening in the parlors of the Churchill House, by her pastor, Rev. E. C. Brooks, of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this city. The singing was rendered by Mr. Ernest Early and Mrs. Belle Rodgers.

The remains were accompanied to Wisconsin by her daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Churchill. Although the notice given of the services was but brief, yet a large number of friends and neighbors were present, attesting thereby the esteem in which she was generally held. Grandma Jobes was loved and admired by all who shared her acquaintance. Her great friendship for all her fellow creatures invoking a devotion and attachment from those around her seldom witnessed. This was attested by the loving, faithful care proffered by the employees at the hotel in this last and in former sicknesses. Besides her son and daughter and her grandchildren, the deceased is mourned by two brothers at Brodhead, Wisconsin, and a sister, Mrs. Chloe Taylor, at Gowanda, New York, and other relatives.

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