BOOKER, Narcissa Arbella (WILKINS) 1829-1906

BOOKER, WILKINS, SANDS, HOWLETT

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Monday, December 17, 1906
Page 2, Column 2

DIED SUNDAY MORNING
Mrs. Narcissa BOOKER Passed Away After a Long Illness. Funeral This Afternoon

Mrs. Narcissa W. BOOKER, one of the best residents of Fairfield, died at 5 o'clock Sunday morning, after an extended illness.

She was the widow of the late S. F. BOOKER, who died in October 1899. One daughter survives them. She is Mrs. Clara HOWLETT, assistant librarian at the Jefferson county library.

Mrs. BOOKER was of a lovable disposition and had an especially large circle of friends in the city. She was a devout member of the Presbyterian church. The funeral was held this afternoon from her late residence on South Main street at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. W. F. Jones of the Presbyterian church conducted the service and said in substance:

Narcissa A. WILKINS was born at St. Clairsville, O., on the 12th day of December, 1829. On the 16th day of December, 1906, four days after she had celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday, she pased out of this earthly life into the heavenly.

She was married to S. F. BOOKER at St. Clairsville on May 48 (sic), 1848. To them were born six children, two of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Anna P. SANDS and Harry F. died before the mother and the other two, Chas. H. and Mrs. Clara HOWLETT, survive to mourn the loss of a tender and devoted mother.

Mr. and Mrs. BOOKER came to Iowa and settled in Fairfield in 1864. In 1876 they removed to Missouri where they spent fourteen years. They returned to Fairfield in 1890.

Mr. and Mrs. BOOKER joined the Presbyterian church of Fairfield on January 10, 1865. To the day of her death, Mrs. BOOKER was a devout christian, living out in her life the faith she professed. She loved her church and greatly prized its privileges. Until her last sickness she was never absent from the services of the Lord's house:

It is a rarely beautiful and thoroughly loveable life which has passed from our midst. Mrs. BOOKER has peculiarly endeared herself to a wide circle of friends. To know her was to esteem and love her. Words of eulogy would be impertinent because not needed, since her memory is enshrined, while life shall last, in the hears (sic. hearts?) of her friends. The qualities of serenity, winsomeness and dependableness, and above all her sweet and real Christian faith, won and held friends for her in a peculiarly close tie.

Yet it is in her own home that she will be missed most greatly. The daughter who has never before been separated from her mother, and the son who especially needed the mother's care, are severely bereft in the mother's taking off.

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"The Fairfield Journal"
Wednesday, December 19, 1906
Page 5, Column 2

DIED SUNDAY MORNING
Mrs. Narcissa BOOKER Passed Away After a Long Illness. Funeral Monday.

Mrs. Narcissa W. BOOKER, one of the best residents of Fairfield, died at 5 o'clock Sunday morning, after an extended illness.

She was the widow of the late S. F. BOOKER, who died in October 1899. One daughter survives them. She is Mrs. Clara HOWLETT, assistant librarian at the Jefferson county library.

Mrs. BOOKER was of a lovable disposition and had an especially large circle of friends in the city. She was a devout member of the Presbyterian church. The funeral was held this afternoon from her late residence on South Main street at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Rev. W. F. Jones of the Presbyterian church conducted the service and said in substance:

Narcissa A. WILKINS was born at St. Clairsville, O., on the 12th day of December, 1829. On the 16th day of December, 1906, four days after she had celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday, she passed out of this earthly life into the heavenly.

She was married to S. F. BOOKER at St. Clairsville on May 48 (sic), 1848. To them were born six children, two of whom died in infancy. Mrs. Anna P. SANDS and Harry F. died before the mother and the other two, Chas. H. and Mrs. Clara HOWLETT, survive to mourn the loss of a tender and devoted mother.

Mr. and Mrs. BOOKER came to Iowa and settled in Fairfield in 1864. In 1876 they removed to Missouri where they spent fourteen years. They returned to Fairfield in 1890.

Mr. and Mrs. BOOKER joined the Presbyterian church of Fairfield on January 10, 1865. To the day of her death, Mrs. BOOKER was a devout christian, living out in her life the faith she professed. She loved her church and greatly prized its privileges. Until her last sickness she was never absent from the services of the Lord's house:

It is a rarely beautiful and thoroughly loveable life which has passed from our midst. Mrs. BOOKER has peculiarly endeared herself to a wide circle of friends. To know her was to esteem and love her. Words of eulogy would be impertinent because not needed, since her memory is enshrined, while life shall last, in the hears (sic) of her friends. The qualities of serenity, winsomeness and dependableness, and above all her sweet and real Christian faith, won and held friends for her in a peculiarly close tie.

Yet it is in her own home that she will be missed most greatly. The daughter who has never before been separated from her mother, and the son who especially needed the mother's care, are severely bereft in the mother's taking off.

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"The Fairfield Ledger"
Wednesday, December 19, 1906
Page 6, Column 3

A Good Woman Has Passed Away.

Mrs. Narcissa A. BOOKER died at her home in this city early Sunday morning. She had been ill for almost six months past and for more than a month previous to her death had been unable to take a mouthful of nourishment.

Mrs. BOOKER was formerly Miss Narcissa A. WILKINS. She was born at St. Clairsville, O., December 12th, 1829, and was married there, May 18th, 1848, to Samuel F. BOOKER. The family came to Jefferson county April 1st, 1865, and lived for many years on a farm east of this city and removed to Fairfield about seventeen years ago. Its residence here had been continuous for more than forty years, except for an absence in Missouri. Mrs. BOOKER was the mother of six children. Two died in infancy. Harry F. BOOKER, a son, passed away in this city May 28th, 1899, Mrs. Anna P. SANDS, a daughter, February 19th, 1903. The survivors are Charles H. BOOKER and Mrs. Clara G. HOWLETT. The husband and father died October 15th, 1899. Mrs. BOOKER had been a member of the Presbyterian church since childhood and during all her life here was active in its good works. She seemed to possess all the womanly excellences in the highest degree, and a sweet and unruffled disposition under the most trying circumstances was a marked trait of her character. The sympathy of many friends who had known her for almost half a century in this community went to her in her long illness and they will very generally regret her death. Funeral services were held at the home on South Main street Monday afternoon. They were conducted by Rev. W. F. Jones, pastor of the Presbyterian church assisted by President Parson.

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"Jefferson County Republican"
Friday, December 21, 1906
Page 1, Column 3

Obituary.

Narcissa A. WILKINS was born at St. Clairsville, Ohio, December 12, 1829; in May 1848 she was married to S. F. BOOKER. Six children were born to them, two dying in infancy and two; Mrs. Anna P. SANDS and Harry F. BOOKER, within the past few years. One son, Chas. H. and a daughter, Mrs. Clara HOWLETT, survive her, and were with her to minister to her wants.

Mr. and Mrs. BOOKER came to Ia. in the early sixties and settled in Fairfield but remained here only a short time until they removed to Missouri where they lived for some fifteen years, when they again came to Fairfield, which has been their home ever since, and where Mrs. BOOKER peacefully passed away, on Sabbath morning, December 16, 1906, aged 77 years and 4 days. Mr. BOOKER died in 1899.

Deceased was a life long member of the Presbyterian church and when health permitted was always in her pew during church services.

Funeral services were held at the family residence Monday afternoon conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. F. Jones.

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Note: Buried in the BOOKER family plot at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Iowa. Old.P.274.