Rebecca Hart Skinner (1896)

HART, SKINNER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/19/2008 at 14:19:29

Semi Weekly Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, July 24, 1896
Page 1

Mrs. Skinner died at the home of her son, Henry Hart, recently, at the age of eighty-four. Her sickness had extended over several months.
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The Afton Enterprise
Afton, Iowa
Thursday, July 16, 1896
Page 8, Column 2

Obituary

DIED-Monday, July 13, 1896, at the home of her son, Henry Hart in New Hope township, Mrs. Rebecca Skinner, aged 74 years, 4 months, and 20 days.

The sad event recorded above was not wholly unexpected by the relatives. For three long months, Mrs. Skinner has battled with disease, receiving every attention that medical skill and loving solicitude could suggest. She retained her mental faculties to the last and left such an example of Christian faith and fortitude as serves her children as both guide and comforter in their grief.

Rebecca Skinner was born, February 22, 1822, in Ohio. Arriving at the age of womanhood, she married William Hart, moving with him to Iowa in 1850, locating in Wapello County. Afterward, they came to Union County. The husband died many years ago and is buried in St. Louis.

Three sons and one daughter were born to them. Of these Henry resides in New Hope Township and George W. in Afton. The daughter is Mrs. {Elizabeth} Younger David Comer, belonging to one of the best families of New Hope. John, the remaining son died seventeen years ago. His family is one of the best in Afton.

In 1858 Mrs. Hart married Henry Skinner, who died twenty years ago. Three children were the result of this union. The daughter is the wife of Newt Williams, a leading farmer of Dodge Township. Frank Skinner is at Virginia, Neb., and Leonard in Oklahoma.

Mrs. Skinner has for years made her home among her children. She lived to see her sons respected and honored among their fellow citizens, and her daughters united to husbands of worth and integrity.

She was long a devoted member of the M.E. Church and her manifestations of true Christian spirit is a solace to the bereaved children in their sorrow. The funeral arrangements were all in accord with her wishes.

Services were held at the home of Henry Wick, on Tuesday, conducted by Rev. W. C. Williams, an old and valued friend of the family and a veteran minister of the Methodist Church. Afton's quiet and beautiful city of the dead received all that was mortal of this good woman. The services were attended by a large concourse of friends.

All unite to pay tribute of respect to Mrs. Skinner. She filled her sphere and filled it well. Her children are indebted to her for the training that has brought the respect of their fellow men. The have her example as an encouragement and a consolation. The people extend to them united sympathy in their grief, which should be tempered by thoughts of the long life well spent, and the terrible suffering now ended.

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