Aronhalt, Arsema Salone (Weaver) 1858-1936

ARONHALT, WEAVER, ORR, GIBBS, ROSS

Posted By: Jane Hogue (email)
Date: 3/17/2005 at 13:11:34

From a Clearfield, Iowa Newspaper - August/1936

Death of Mrs. Aronhalt

About the first week of August, Mrs. Elmer Orr went to Mount Union, Washington Co. to see her mother, brother and sisters. She was near when her mother had a fatal accident on August 10th. Mrs. Aronhalt walked or fell backwards into a cellar, and except for about one hour, was never conscious, death coming five days later in a Mt. Pleasant hospital.

Mrs. Gibbs sends us the following obituary, and says that crops and weather are about the same there as here. She also sends regards to many friends whom they knew here during their eleven years in this community.

Mrs. Orr came home last week, folllowing the funeral which was on August 17th.

Mrs. C. N. Aronhalt

Arsema Salone Weaver, only daughter of Jacob and Martha Weaver, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 13, 1858, and departed this life August 15, 1936, aged 77 years, 10 mos. and 2 days. When she was a child, she moved with her widowed mother and two brothers to Neosho county, Kansas, where she grew to womanhood.

On September 11, 1878 she was united in marriage to Newton Aronhalt, her faithful companion thru nearly fifty-eight years of married life. To this union were born six children, four of whom are living and were at her bedside at the time of her death. One son died in infancy, and the oldest child, Mrs. Pearl Ross, died eleven years ago.

The aged husband and surviving children - Mrs. Jessie Gibbs, Mount Union, Mrs. Edna Ross and Mr. Ralph Aronhalt of Winfield, and Mrs. Grace Orr of Lenox, Iowa; eighteen grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and a host of friends mourn her loss.

In 1886, she and her husband and children moved to Iowa, and they have since made their home in this state. For quite a number of years, down to about 1916, they lived in this community, on Lenox Road, four miles north, again two miles south, and for a period here in town. Mrs. Aronhalt was faithful in attendance at the Clearfield and the Calvary Methodist churches.

Early in life she gave her heart to God, and since has faithfully tried to follow her Savior’s teachings. She loved to attend church services and never missed if it were possible to be there. Her gentle kindness, and devotion to her home and friends, are over - her work is done.

On August 10th, she suffered an injury from a fall and lapsed into unconsciousness, from which she wakened on the other shore. It is as she had wished to go.

“To fall asleep here; and wake up over there.”