Sarah L. Merril

MERRIL, JOSLYN

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 10/6/2020 at 09:31:20

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa, Wednesday, July 24, 1889 page 4

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Geo. W. Merril was called home to rest on July 16th at 2:30 p. m. after an illness of many months enduring intense suffering with great fortitude and patience. The immediate cause of death being uterine cancer. She was born January 5th 1835 in the town of Hardwick, Caledonia County Vermont and passed her childhood at that place. her maiden name was Sarah L. Joslyn she was united in marriage to Geo. W. Merrill, who survives her, at the home of her parents in her native town December 4th 1857. A month later they came West and settled on a farm in what was know as "Yankeetown" Columbus city township this county. Just previus to the war the farm was sold and Columbus City selected as a place of residence.

Mr. Merrill entered the army September 28th, 1861, and was permanently at home until January 1866. During this interval Mrs. Merrill lived with two small children at Columbus City. A few months after Mr. Merill entered the army a daughter was born to them, but was allowed to remain but three short weeks, when God took her home. Mr. Merrill never saw this child.

In 1867 they moved to the town of Clifton where they resided until 1874, then to this place where she passed the rest of her days in their home on Sout Hill. She was the mother of nine children eight of whom survive her; seven sons and one daughter. Much of the time during her long illness her beloved children were all at her bedside, several of them coming many hundred miles, to minister in every way in their power to her comforts. Her one great concern was for those she must leave, feeling there was still work for her to do for those she so dearly loved and whose every want her life had been an earnest effort to supply. She had been blessed with a constitution of wonderful vigor and had enjoyed good health previous to the development of the disease which finally consumed her life. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and died in the full faith that she was going home to rest with the redeemed of earth. Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian church which had been, by loving ?.......