Anna (Rice) Butler (1892)

BUTLER, MCCOMBS, MCKEAN, RICE

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Date: 12/31/2007 at 08:33:06

The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, January 22, 1892
Page 4

County and City

Mrs. Anna Butler, an old lady of Jefferson township, died last Tuesday, aged 83. She was the mother of Mrs. H. D. McCombs.
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The Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, January 29, 1892
Page 7

Obituary

Sister Anna Butler, deceased, was born in Mercer county, Pa., March 1st, 1807, and died January 1st, 1892, of la grippe, aged 84 years, 10 months and 17 days. She was married Oct. 3, 1822, to Wm. McKean, and became a widow in 1834. She was married again in 1836 to J. W. Butler, who died in 1880, since which she has resided with her daughter Mrs. McCombs, of Jefferson township. Emigrating to Iowa in 1850 with her husband, they experienced the hardships of frontier life. Sister Butler, whose maiden name was Rice, was the mother of twelve children.

She was converted at 12 years of age and united with the church of which she remained an earnest and consistent member until called to join the church triumphant. Her children were taught of the Lord, and the family altar was never neglected, upon which morning and evening sacrifices appeared as a sweet incense. To know her was but to love her on account of her warm, genial nature and noble Christian character, which always impaired sunshine without alloy to all she met.

At her death six of her children were on the evergreen shore to welcome her and six are left to mourn their loss. When told she must die the reply was it is all right, and repeated Talmage’s New Year’s text, Jeremiah, “This year thou shalt die.”

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