Mrs. E. W. "Hariett" (Lyman) Cady 1810-1885

CADY, LYMAN, BRAINARD, RUMRY

Posted By: CHERYL MOONEN (email)
Date: 7/19/2018 at 20:35:12

SOURCE: THE ANAMOSA EUREKA, ANAMOSA, IOWA, MARCH 19, 1885 WYOMING, MARCH 17, 1885

Mrs. E. W. Cady died at her home in this place on the morning of March 14th of tpyhoid-pueumonia, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. Harriet Lyman was born at Pomfret, Vt., July 31, 1810; was married to Enos W. Cady, at Stowe in the same state on the 11th of April, 1839, and the twain moved to Ohio in 1844, and on to Illinois in the fall of '50 and in '54 they sought a home on the fair Prairies of Iowa, settling in Jones County on East Ridge, from which they removed to a less laborious residence in this place in 1871.

She was the mother of six children: Henry, drowned while bathing in Pearl River, Miss., where he was lying in camp with his regiment, 24th Iowa volunteers; Jane, wife of W. J. Brainard; Martha and Mary, twins, the former wife of L. V. Brainard, of Oakdale, Nebraska, the latter dying at the age of 18; Lyman E, living at Rolfe, Iowa; and Laura wife of Albert Rumry, at Chloe, Nebraska.

The surviving children are all conscientious adherents to the Christian faith - living monuments to the fidelity of her who has just passed to her reward. Mrs. Cady joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1861, and has lived a life of guarded constancy to its lessons and objects, and no man has ever ministered here without having felt the benefit of her strength as given to the church. Her last sickness of almost a week's duration was painful and hard to bear, but believing that the end had come, she looked trustingly to the bright beyond teaching anew that "When heart goes before, like a lamp and illuminates the pathway. Many things are made clear that else he hides in darkness."

Her last moments were peaceful; the sun of her life went to rest in an unclouded sky, and its bright lights slanting out from the fading horizon are the cherished thoughts that live in the minds of those who know her best. The burial services were at the house at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, from which place the remains were borne by Jas. A. Branson. C. M. Watson, A. M. Loomis, A. Chirk, W.T. Fordham and Russell Gilbert, to their last resting place in the Wyoming cemetery, after which services at the church were conducted by Revs. Carroll and Coates, the latter preaching from the text: "let me die the death of the righteous and my last end be like his." The sermon contained much comfort and consolation to the friends and recounted any of the merits of the deceased and paid beautiful tribute by likening her to a wreath of autumn flowers inscribed "beautiful in death." Inconvenient railway accommodations prevented any of the absent children reaching here in time for the funeral obsequies.