Catherine Seals Mahana 1810-1875

MAHANA, SEALS

Posted By: Gloria J. Henry (email)
Date: 9/29/2002 at 12:02:44

CATHERINE SEALS MAHANA
Iowa City Daily Press
Monday May 17, 1875

In Memoriam.
The large audience in the M. E. Church yesterday in attendance upon the obsequies of Mrs. Mahana, testified to the wide spread of sorrow for the death of this mother of Israel.
She was born in Waynesburg, Greene County, PA in 1810; in 1837 married Bradley Mahana, whom she survived about eight months.
In 1836 she joined the M. E. Church and lived consistent with her profession.
In 1855 she came with her husband and family to Iowa City and in her twenty years residence here there grew around her all those tender ties of home, family, and friends, which age beautifies and death cannot sever without mourning.
She reared a family of eleven children, of whom eight--six sons and two daughters survive her.
Her life was it's own eulogy, and a sermon to which the preacher may point, an example her children may follow, and a guide of conduct for which the world is better.