Lavina (Cobbs) Murphy (1926)

MURPHY, COBBS, STANLEY, REMPP, MARSTON, ROBERTS, TEAGUE, FRANTZ

Posted By: Linda Brittain (email)
Date: 2/17/2007 at 21:08:38

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
1926

Lavina Cobbs, daughter of Thimothy and Emeline Cobbs, was born at Beloit, Ohio, February 10, 1854, and departed this life at her home in Earlham, Iowa, April 23, 1926 in the seventy-second year of her life.

Her parents moved to Mahaska County Iowa when she was yet a small girl and she grew up in the Mahaska County home. She was united in marriage with C. J. Stanley in 1874 and they lived happily together until his death, April 24, 1902. Four children came to gladden their home; Charles, who died in 1922, Emma L. Rempp of Earlham, Iowa, Clara Marston of Pomona, Calif. and George Stanley of Long Beach, Calif.

After two years of widowhood she became the wife of George Murphy, on Thanksgiving Day 1904.

Their home was a happy Christian home for seventeen years, when she was again bereft by the death of Mr. Murphy who passed to the Heavenly Home about five years ago.

Sister Murphy was a member of the Friends Church by birthright and lived faithful to the faith in that connection until she moved to Earlham with her second husband when she united with the Methodist Church in 1915. Since that time she has been an esteemed and faithful member of this Church.

Besides her three living children, she leaves a step-son, Roy Murphy of Dexter Iowa, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren to mourn her going. She is also survived by four sisters and one brother, Mrs. Annar Roberts, Eads, Col., Mrs. Catharine Teague, Haddam, Kans. Silas Cobbs, Sioux City, Iowa, Mrs. Ollie Frantz, New Sharon, Ia. and Mrs. Etta Rempp, Montezuma, Iowa.

Sister Murphy was a loving and devoted mother, a good neighbor, a great lover of her home and was universally loved and esteemed by all who knew her.

Funeral services for her were held at the Methodist Church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, in charge of her pastor, Rev. E. A. Thomas. Interment was made in the Earlham cemetery. The popular esteem for this good woman was made manifest by the very large attendance.

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