Emily Barnett Reynolds (1925)

REYNOLDS, BARNETT

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 12/22/2006 at 16:58:35

Earlham Echo, Earlham, Iowa
1925

Whereas our Heavenly Father has seen fit to permit the death of Emily Reynolds, a brief memoir of our sister seems fitting.

Emily Barnett, daughter and last survivor of the family of Jesse and Maria Barnett, was born near Indianola, Warren county, Iowa, June 21, 1859, and died at her home in Dexter, April 25th, 1925, aged 65 years, 10 months and 4 days.

Her early life was spent in Warren county, then on October 20th, 1880, she was married to John Reynolds at Earlham. To them were born three sons, Roy, now of Trumansburg, N. Y., Ray of Dexter and Ross of Earlham.

She was a birthright member of the Friends Church, and from early womanhood she lived an active and consistent Christian life and was a member of Bear Creek Friends Church at the time of her death. She expressed readiness die and said her choice was to go rather than to stay.

She was a quiet woman of few words, but faithful, finding not only opportunity for service in her own home, but in helping her neighbors and friends. Her father, mother, brother and husband's mother were all cared for during their last sickness by this patient woman. Truly she had caught the spirit of her Master when He said, "He that would be greatest among you, let him be servant of all.

She had been a well, strong woman, then very suddenly she was stricken with paralysis on August 28, 1913. She recovered in a measure from the first stroke but when a second followed she became almost helpless and had been in very poor health for eleven years. She was naturally of a cheerful disposition and this cheerfulness continued throughout her years of affliction, which she bore with never a word of complaint as she had been cared for by her faithful husband and sons.

Most of her life has been spent in Earlham, Dexter and Bear Creek community and she has many friends, who join the husband, three sons, three grandchildren and other relatives in mourning her loss.

Brief services were held from the home in Dexter on Monday afternoon by Rev. D. J. McKay, the funeral service being conducted at the Earlham Friends Church at 2:30 o'colock by the Rev. Mrs. Riddle, pastor of the Bear Creek Friends Church. The floral offering was profuse and bore fragrant and affectionate testimony to the high esteem in which Mrs. Reynolds was held. The body was laid to rest in the Earlham cemetery.