Martha M Seymour
SEYMOUR, HURLBUT, LYMANE
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Date: 2/6/2018 at 13:31:10
The Marion Sentinel Thursday August 8, 1901
Obituary.
MARTHA M. SEYMOUR.
The late Mrs. Edward P. Seymour was burid in Oak Shade Cemetery on Saturday July 27th. She died at the family residence on east Fifth avenue on Thursday, July 25th, 1901. Those who reverentially bore her body to the grave were the Messers. George Floyd, Oxley, Hoagland, Domer, Curran and Keenan.
Rev. W.H. Reynolds, pastor of the Presbyterian church, conducted the services at the house at 10 o'clock a.m. and at the grave immediately afterward.
He read from the Bible the words of Jesus: "Come unto me ye all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." He told how all that mourn, if they will but come to Jesus, may have that which their soul needs--the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the comfort of prayer, the comfort of the Scriptures the book of human consolation, the comfort of the church with its sacraments and teachings, the comfort of friends with their sympathy, and the comfort of services, working for God and fellow men, making better other lives by use of the same means that have brought peace and joy to their own lives.
After these words were spoken, as well as before they were give, a choir of four from the Presbyterian church, Mr. Ed Jackson, Miss Blanch Goudy, Mrs. F.B. Bolton and Miss Grace Hallett, sang hymns of faith and hope.
The following obituary was read:
Martha M. Hurlbut was born in Delaware County, Ohio, February 17th, 1838. When she was about sixteen years of age she made a confession of her faith in Jesus Christ as her Saviour from sin and death and was received into the membership of the United Brethren church near her home. Was baptised[sic] by immersion in Alum Creek, by, it is believed, the Rev. John. C. Bright. She came to Iowa in the fall of 1860 and settled in New London, Henry County.
On September 26th, 1861, she was united in marriage to Edward P. Seymour, in New London. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour has one son, Jay, who survives and is present here to-day.
In the spring of 1868 Mrs. Seymour united with the protestant Methodist church in New London. In the spring of 1883 they moved to Marion where the residence has ever since been maintained. She did not present her church letter to any organization here. Though she did not do this, her husband says she always seemed to retain her hope of heaven just the same.
She leaves to mourn her departure, besides her husband and son, two brothers, Jacob Hurlbut of Greenwood, Cass County, Nebraska, who with his wife is present to-day, and George Hurlbut also of Cass County, Nebraska, who however could not be here, and her oldest sister, Mrs. Lydia Lymane of New London who is present. We commend this family and all sorrowing ones to God who comforteth us in all our affliction. W.H.R.
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