Margaret Metcalf
METCALF, COBLE
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Date: 8/14/2017 at 23:30:20
The Marion Pilot Thursday May 11, 1899
Obituary.
MRS. MARGARET COBLE METCALF.
Mrs. Margaret Coble Metcalf was born at Richland, Ohio, September 8, 1829, and died at her home three miles northwest of Marion, May 2, 1899. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coble. She grew to womanhood in her native state and was married to Thomas Metcalf August 9, 1832. Soon after her marriage they removed to Marion, Linn County, Iowa, and settled on a farm where she has made her home until the time of her death, her husband having passed to the great beyond some twenty years ago. She was the mother of four children, one son, Johnie, dying in infancy, and Henry, the eldest, now residing in Mayview, Kansas, and Willis and Austin, who reside here at her late home.
The death of Mrs. Metcalf was very unexpected as she was rarely ever sick and the shock was almost unbearable. She was in her usual health on Friday getting dinner for friends and said late in the afternoon she felt a pain in the back of her head and in the evening when about her usual work she grew decidedly worse and a physician was called and they did not realize she was dangerously sick until Monday when the absent ones were hastily summoned but it was too late for her to recognize them or bestow a mother's blessing. On Tuesday evening she passed quietly and peacefully to her reward.
Mrs. Metcalf was a woman of power and real force of character. Although quiet and unassuming her silent, undemonstrative power for good was felt everywhere. Although not a member of any particular church, she was a firm believer in the church, a d attended when opportunity would permit. She was a woman of honesty and integrity, true to all who knew her, a devoted wife and mother as she lived for her family, as well as her neighbors and friends of which they are many, and her motto was "speak ill of no one" of which she lived and practiced herself. She bore her troubles with great patience and never complained; she shared your joys, she bore your sorrows. She was deeply interested in everything relating to your welfare and never thought of sparing herself if she could be of service to you.
No doubt the sun of righteousness lighted up her pathway as she neared the mysterious river and that she passed to her reward on high.
A FRIEND.
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