MULKINS, Jennette WEDGE 1845 - 1896

MULKINS, WEDGE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/23/2016 at 11:11:00

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, November 25, 1896
Page 6, Column 1

Obituary of Mrs. Jannetta MULKINS.

Mrs. MULKINS was born near Milwaukee, Wis., in 1845, and died in Fairfield, Iowa, November 17, 1896, aged fifty-one years, three months and fifteen days. She came to Keosauqua, Iowa, when eleven years old, and at eighteen was married to Mr. Kellogg MULKINS (sic - Jabez Kellogg MULKINS). She was the mother of eight children, seven of whom survive her. One ot these is in Colorado and six are in Fairfield. She was left a widow when her son Frank was twelve years old, with six children younger than he. Mrs. MULKINS worked and managed her affairs in a manner that enabled her to keep her children together, and bring them up to manhood and womanhood. No one knows of the toils, cares and anxieties of a mother left alone with a lot of children to care for but those who have had the trial. Mrs. MULKINS became a member of the Free Methodist church in 1870, and of the Christian church in 1894. I have been told she always manifested in her life the true christian character, and from personal knowledge I know this to be true since my acquaintance with her. I visited her often during her sickness which has been long and painful, but notwithstanding this, she bore her affliction with fortitude and patience; talked often of her bright prospects of a better life, and of a home in heaven, and exhorted her children to fathfulness (sic), and by all means to try to meet her in that Better World.

O. H. Derry.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot Old.P.105; she has no headstone. Daughter Eva and son Jesse are also buried in this lot, without headstones. Husband Jabez is buried in Upper Richwoods Cemetery.