Margaret Virginia (Wolgamot) Beerbower (1889)

BEERBOWER, WOLGAMOT

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 8/11/2007 at 13:07:39

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, February 15, 1889

Obituary Notice

Died--at her home in Lincoln township, Madison county, Iowa, February 11, 1889, Mrs. M. V. Beerbower in her 64th year.

Margaret Virginia Wolgamot was born in Washington County, Maryland, December 29, 1825. She removed to Ohio in 1841, was married to G. A. Beerbower in 1842. She was united with the M. E. Church in 1848 and came to Winterset in 1852, and with her husband, united by letter with the church here. She has been the mother of 8 children, 3 who have preceded her to the world beyond.

Mrs. Beerbower was a woman of remarkable patience and solidity of character, of quiet disposition, marked by consistency and good judgment. She won and retained the confidence of all about her, and especially of her own family.

Her health had been good until about four years ago; since that time she has been a great sufferer, having passed through two or three painful surgical operations in a fruitless endeavor to remove cancer. For the last six months she has been completely confined to her bed with fractured limb, beside her other severe complications, yet no word of murmuring was ever heard to escape her lips.

A few weeks ago her dear daughter Jessie, whom she loved as her own life and who in an almost superhuman manner had been trying to comfort her mother while contending herself with mortality, fell away from her side in the embrace of death.

Notwithstanding these severe sufferings and bereavements, her faith and love completely triumphed, and her last days were full of joy and praises, so that the sick room became in very deed the vestibule of Heaven.

The funeral took place from the late home on Tuesday, February 12th, conducted by the pastor and the remains were laid at rest by the side of her dear Jessie in the city cemetery.

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