Maria Parmenter
PARMENTER, BARKER, MUNGER
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Date: 4/2/2018 at 21:47:32
The Marion Register Wednesday May 8, 1895
MRS. MARIA PARMENTER.
"I cannot say, and will not say,
That she is dead. She is just away;
With a cherry smile and a wave of the hand
She has wandered away to an unknown land
And has left us dreaming how very fair
It needs must be for she is there."
Marie Barker was born July 6, 1828, and was one of nine children, only the youngest of whom now lives. She married Marshall Parmenter November 23, 1848, in Knox County, Ohio. In 1855 they came to Marion. Four children were born to them, Stephen A., Lyman, and Hattie of this city, and Mary E., now Mrs. Munger of Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. Parmenter died July 27, 1893. Since her husband's death Mrs. Parmenter has been less strong than usual and though surrounded by every comfort and greatly loved by her children and friends, she mourned constantly but quietly for him who had gone. She with the daughter Hattie who has been her constant, faithful companion, spent the winter with Mr. and Mrs. Munger and the months were marked by a renewed religious enjoyment as the daughter's household lavished upon her its love and care. Her home coming little more than a month ago, was specially joyous, for prayer had been answered and her own family were now all christians. She had been such since girlhood and until coming to Iowa a member of the Baptist church but did not connect herself with any in Marion until recently, when she gave her name to the Methodist Episcopal church so glad to have it with her children--saying immediately to her son, I have joined the church, and my name is in the Lamb's book of Life. Never will her son Lyman forget the Sunday night they sat so happily and proudly together when she offered herself to membership, or the son Stephen as on the following Sunday morning they gratefully sat side by side and received the word of Life.
She was scarcely ill, and yet had not been well for months. Only one day of real illness, a day when there seemed lack of constant harmony between body and brain, and the heart fluctuated in its duty, and probably at a critical moment its entire unexpected failure was the cause of her mysterious death which occurred at dawn May 2, several of her family having died as suddenly as she.
A wife, ever faithful, a mother over solicitous, a christian loyal to the Savior, gone from those who loved her on earth to those who love her in heaven.
The funeral services were held on Saturday last at her late residence conducted by Rev. J.G. Van Ness, and assisted by Rev. J.B. Lee, and the body laid to rest beside that of her husband's in the city cemetery.
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