Mary E. Kellogg Edmonson

KELLOGG, EDMONSON

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 12/13/2004 at 12:46:23

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, April 4, 1907

MARY E., daughter of I. and M. KELLOGG, was born at Lyme, Conn., Sept. 27,
1841, and removed with her parents to Ellisville, Ill., in 1856, where she
resided until her marriage to MR. R.E. EDMONSON in September, 1866. Shortly
after this event MR. and MRS. EDMONSON came to Chariton and established for
themselves a home. Here were born to them five children, four of whom and
the father have passed on before her, leaving one son, E.J. EDMONSON, as her
sole survivor. Since the death of her husband in 1895, she has spent much
of the time with her two sisters, at Lynn, Conn., and Arlington, Iowa, and
it was during her sojourn at the former place she was stricken with the
fatal malady that has ended this mortal life.

Her sister and niece were unremitting in care and devotion but as the
disease progressed it was deemed best to remove her to a hospital at
Middletown, Conn., for skillful care and treatment, but nothing could avail
in her case and after weary weeks of suffering she entered into Heavenly
rest on Saturday, March 30, 1907. MRS. EDMONSON was a woman of fine mind
with high ideals of life, and was loyal and true to the principles which she
believed to be right. Thus for thirty years she has been a faithful member
of the Presbyterian Church of this city, and was an enthusiastic,
intelligent member of the women's Christian Temperance Union, sitting in the
last national convention of that body as one of the representatives of Iowa.
She was cheerful, brave and helpful, winning friends wherever she went, and
the final summons to "come up higher" found her ready and willing to go, for
she felt that Heaven would indeed be home. During her illness she copied
and sent her sister these lines:

"Some day the web will all be done

The shuttle silent in its place;

And friends at setting of the sun

Will come and look upon my face

And say, mistakes she made though not a few,

But worn perchance as best she knew."
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