Mrs. James Maddux 1856-1903

MADDUX, ADYE

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 7/18/2024 at 13:09:29

The Wapello Republic, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Thursday, October 15, 1903
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Cairo - Death has again entered our community. This time the grim monster has claimed a kind wife and loving mother, Mrs. James Maddux. The deceased was born in Pennsylvania Nov. 12, 1856. She came to Iowa with her parents in the fifties and has resided in this community since that time. She was joined in wedlock to Mr. James Maddux and to this union one child was born, Mrs. Lillie Adye, now a resident of Wapello.

Some three years ago the deceased was stricken with paralysis, since which time she had been an invalid. Having frequent attacks of this dread disease she was finally deprived of her speech, which added much to her suffering. She clung to life with wonderful tenacity through the last few weeks of this terrible suffering until wasted away to a mere shadow and on the morning of October 6, 1903, the summons came. A kind wife and loving mother called to that bourne from which no traveler returneth.

Funeral services were held at the Cairo Bethel conducted by Rev. McEwen, of Winfield, who delivered a very tender and appropriate address from Ecclesiastes. The remains were followed by a large concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbors to the cemetery south of town, where the last sad rights were paid and the body returned to mother earth, the spirit to the God who gave it.