SPIELMAN, Christina E.

SPIELMAN, BURK, MOHR

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 1/29/2007 at 15:15:58

"Fairfield Ledger", September 24, 1868

DIED.--- On the 20th, inst. at Burlington, Iowa, of Typhoid Fever, Christina E. SPIELMAN, aged 19 years, 8 months and 22 days.

The deceased was born near Germanville. At the age of fifteen years she made a public profession of Christ, and was confirmed in the Lutheran Church by Rev. M. BURK. About three years ago she removed with her parents to Fairfield, and became an earnest and faithful member of the English Lutheran congregation of this place. As a member of the choir and a teacher in the Sunday School she was always at her post and ready for duty. All that she did for Christ and his church was done cheerfully, without excuses or complaints. Even in the delirium of the sick bed she often spoke of the church she loved so well, and referred to the solemn services of God’s house in which she so much delighted to participate.

On the first of the present month she went to Burlington for the purpose of visiting her relatives and friends residing in that city. She had spent only about week there when she had a severe attack of bilious fever, which continued for several days. But finally the disease seemed to yield to the remedies employed by her physician, and she became so much better that she thought of returning home on the 15th inst. But Providence ordered it otherwise. On the evening of the 14th, she was prostrated by typhoid fever and so malignant was the disease in its first stages that from the very beginning, her friends had scarcely any hope for recovery. Her parents and brother, together with Dr. MOHR of this place, the family physician, visited her during the week, and did all for her that could be done, but their efforts were unavailing. On Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock she quietly and peacefully fell alseep in Jesus. The day following her body was brought to this place, and on Tuesday, after appropriate funeral services held in the Lutheran Church, it was followed by a large number of relatives and other friends. Thus another Christian has been called away to her reward. Here her loss is deeply felt. She was so kind, so faithful, so cheerful that she will be missed everywhere. Still we trust that our present loss is her eternal gain, hence we need not weep as those who have no hope. She has only gone before to welcome us to that rest which God has promised to his people. May we forget her faults, remember her virtues, and follow her as she followed Christ. ~ A. A.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.