SCHAFER, Mary (Mrs. J. W.) 1831 - 1882

SCHAFER, FOX, MCALISTER, DUNCAN

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/27/2006 at 11:05:23

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, March 1, 1882
Page 2, Column 5

DEATH OF MRS. J. W. SCHAFER.

Died, at her residence in Penn township, of complication of diseases, Mary, wife of John W. SCHAFER, aged fifty years, three months and sixteen days.

The deceased, a daughter of John FOX, of this city, was born in Clinton, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, Oct. 30, 1831, and at the youthful age of fourteen was deprived by death of a mother's care, and was left the oldest of seven children, all of whom still survive her. She, with the assistance of her father, kept the family in the old homestead, she taking a mother's place towards her brothers and sisters until the year 1856, when they removed to this city, where her father, with two of his daughters, Mrs. McALISTER and Mrs. DUNCAN, still reside. Having raised the family until they were old enough to care for themselves, she was married on the 15th day of August, 1860, to John W. SCHAFER, and continued to reside in this city until the close of the war, when on the return of her husband from the army they removed to their home, about ten miles north of the city.

About three years ago a painful tumor made its appearance on her left breast, and continuing to increase, she, by the advice of her family physician, consented to have it removed, which was successfully done; but having never fully recovered from a severe and protracted illness of about one year ago, together with a complication of other diseases, her constitution was unable to carry her through the trying ordeal, and she peacefully breathed her last on Thursday, Feb. 16th. Mrs. SCHAFER leaves a husband and eight children, the youngest being only four years old, to mourn her loss. The oldest child, a girl just blooming into womanhood, is thus left just as her mother was, with the care of a large family devolving upon her. May the Lord bless and sustain her in her trying and arduous task.

The deceased was in every sense of the word a wife, mother and neighbor. Was there any sickness in the neighborhood it always found her there, ready to minister to the wants of the afflicted; and in this connection the verses chosen for a text at the funeral were singularly appropriate -- Proverbs, 31st chapter, verses 27 and 28 : "She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."

J.H.K.

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