Lousarah J. (Carter) Breeding (1934)

BLAIR, BREEDING, CARTER, HAYNES, MACK, O’BRIEN

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 3/20/2007 at 17:41:54

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, May 3, 1934

Death of Mrs. Sarah Breeding

Mrs. Sarah Breeding was stricken with paralysis Monday evening of last week at her home in Hanley and passed away Sunday afternoon, April 29th. She was 84 years of age and had lived on the farm near Hanley for nearly fifty years.

In her young womanhood she was united in marriage to James Breeding who preceded her in death a number of years ago. They were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters; Mrs. Susie Mack who died in 1896, Robert who lived at home with his mother, Walter of near St. Charles and Mrs. Ada O’Brien of Des Moines. She is also survived by seven grandchildren and one sister Mrs. Eliza Haynes of Missouri.

Funeral and burial services were held at Blair Chapel Tuesday.
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MRS. SARAH BREEDING

Mrs. Sarah Breeding, 84, after a week of unconsciousness, following a stroke of paralysis, passed from labor to reward at her home in Hanley, Sunday, April 29. Her husband preceded her in death 21 years ago, and since that time she had lived on, making a home for her son, Robert. She had been frail for several years and almost blind for the last few years – for some time she had some one to care for her as she had preferred to stay on in her own home.

Mrs. Breeding had lived in this vicinity for many years and had won the respect and love of all who knew her. She was the sister of W. A., J. M., Ben, George, J. G. and Robert Carter, all at one time residents of this vicinity, and all of whom passed away within the last few years. Just one sister, Mrs. B. F. Haynes, of Lathrop, Mo., is left of a family of ten.

Mrs. Breeding was a very fine woman, and there are many friends to join with the relatives in their sorrow, at the passing of their loved one. However, sorrow for her is ended for God has let her from the shadows of the misty valley to the sunlight of His love on the hills above.

Funeral services for Mrs. Breeding were held at Blair Chapel, northwest of St. Charles, on Tuesday, May 1, at 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. Fred A. Riggs, pastor of Miller Memorial United Brethern church, Des Moines, assisted by Rev. L. W. Nixon, pastor of the St. Charles M. E. church.

The pallbearers were her grandsons, Herschel, Carman and J. Ernest Breeding, and her nephews, Peter, Oscar and Walkup Carter. The undertaker in charge was a nephew, Albert Nuzum, of Harbach’s Funeral Home, Des Moines.
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Obituary

Lousarah J. Carter, daughter of Peter and Parthena Blair Carter, was born in Adair county, Kentucky, December 2, 1849. She came with her parents to Madison county, Iowa, in 1864, and lived in this county until her death.

She was converted during a revival meeting conducted at the Way schoolhouse in 1865, while the congregation was singing the old hymn “We shall wear a lily white robe.” Soon afterwards she joined the United Brethren church as a member of which she lived and died.

She was united in marriage to James E. Breeding, February 2, 1871, the rites being performed by her grand-father, the Rev. John Blair. Mr. Breeding preceded her in death on May 22, 1913.

To this union were born five children – Susie A. (deceased) who became the wife of Otto B. Mack, Idella, who passed away at the age of 4 years, Robert A., Walter H. and Adah M., now Mrs. C. M. O’Brien. She also had the care of her grand-son, Bernal Mack, until he was seven years old and gave him a mother’s love and devotion.

Hers was a busy life, given in loving service to her family. She was a self-sacrificing wife and mother, a kind neighbor and a true friend. In her last hours of consciousness, she was singing her favorite hymns and praising the Lord whom she loved and had served for so many years.

On Sunday afternoon at half past one, April 29, 1934, aged 84 years, 4 months and 27 days, she entered into the life more abundant and into that beautiful city, where we never grow old, and “where sickness, sorrow, pain and death are felt and feared no more.”

She leaves to look forward to a blessed reunion, her sons, Robert and Walter, her daughter, Adah, her sons-in-law, Otto B. Mack and Charles O’Brien, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Breeding, her grand-children, Bernal B. Mack, Herschel, Carman, J. Ernest and Susie Kathryn Breeding, James Mathew and Charlene Adah O’Brien, and one great-grandson, Billy Jim Mack, a sister, Eliza A. Haynes, of Lathrop, Mo., the only member left of the family of ten children, a large number of nieces and nephews and a great company of friends.

“She has passed beyond the portals
Through the gates of gleaming pearl
Joining in the heavenly anthem
Where bright seraphs’ wings unfurl,
Gazing with adoring gladness
On the face of Him, who died
To redeem His blood bought children,
Doubts can never more betide.
Passed for her, the spirit’s anguish,
Passed all weariness and pain;
O’er each earthly conflict victor,
She hath changed to endless gain.
Fast on earth the tears are falling
Many are the hearts that mourn;
But a voice from o’er the river
By the pitying breeze is borne,
Rest thee, mother, rest forever,
Thou hast borne the burden long,
Now the vineyard labor leaving
Dwell the glad eternal song.”

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