Nancy Jane (Eyerly) Catterlin (1897)

CATTERLIN

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Winterset Reporter – April 8, 1897
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Mrs. Catterlin Dead.—Last Saturday at 2 o’clock the expected happened at the home of John Catterlin, in this city, when Mrs. Catterlin, who had been lying at the point of death for the past several weeks, passed quietly and peacefully away. The cause of death was a throat trouble and she had been suffering intensely for a long time. Everything that medical skill could do was done for her, but all in vain. The funeral was held Sunday at 3 o’clock, p.m. from the Methodist church, the services being conducted by Revs. Ely and Harris, and the W.R.C., and although the weather was very bad and disagreeable, yet the church was filled with sympathizing friends and relatives. Mrs. Catterlin was an estimable lady and her friends were legion. She was an active member of the Women’s Relief Corps when in health and her death will be much lamented by that organization.

Winterset Reporter – April 8, 1897

Obituary

Mrs. Nancy J. Catterlin was born in Washington county, Iowa, July 27th, 1846, and died at her home in Winterset, Iowa, April 3rd, 1897. Her parents moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, and at a revival meeting held by Rev. A. J. Kirkpatrick, she was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church. She was then eleven years of age.

In the year 1865 the family moved to Madison county, Iowa, but many years of her life were spent in teaching school in Jasper and Marion counties, this state. She also taught in the schools of Winterset during her earlier residence here. Her success as a school teacher may be inferred from the fact that she taught thirty-eight terms of school, and might have continued in her noble work, as her services were eagerly sought after, but a call to other duties made it necessary for her to decline making other engagements.

On the 14th of December, 1882, she was married to Mr. John Catterlin, in Monroe, Jasper county, Iowa. Four children came to bless their home, but two of them, Fay and John, died in early childhood. Mrs. Catterlin bowed heavily under the grief caused by the death of her beloved children, and although submitting without a murmur to the will of her Heavenly Father, yet the shadow of this great sorrow was never entirely lifted from her heart.

Her marriage to Mr. Catterlin brought her to Winterset where she made the home happy, and where she gathered around her a large circle of warm friends. She united with the Winterset Methodist Episcopal church during the pastorate of Rev. C. H. Newell, and here she has continued to live loyal to the church and all its duties and interests, until God took her to her place in the church triumphant in Heaven.

About four years ago her health began to fail, but she was hopeful that, with proper medical treatment, she would recover her health again. She made a heroic fight for life. She loved her home. Her family was constantly on her heart, and during the long years of suffering through which she passed, her great desire was to live to raise her children, and train them in all the virtues and graces of the Christian character. It was in the home that her beautiful Christian spirit and virtues shone most brightly. And down to the very last moment of her life, her husband was on her heart, and was the object of her deepest solicitude.

Her last and fatal illness began about the 1st of February last. She had been away for rest and medical treatment, hoping that the dread disease might yet be arrested and her life spared a little longer to her family. But God willed it otherwise. Upon her return home she was so prostrated that she had to take to her bed, from which to rise no more until the angels bore her ransomed spirit to the skies. During her long struggle with the sickness that caused her so much physical suffering and weariness, she submitted to the will of God with sublime patience and Christian resignation. While her physical powers waned, her spiritual life waxed stronger and stronger until all the shadows of fear and doubt were dispelled from her mind and she passed into the rest and glory of a victorious faith that enabled her to abide in the promise of Christ, “Lo, I am with you.” She readily accepted the sweet comforts of the blessed truths and promises of the Word of God. Her faith in God remained firm to the end. To friends coming to her bedside she would say, “I am nearly Home, nearly Home!” She died peacefully, in full assurance of the rest of Heaven through the merits of Christ her Savior.
She has gone to meet a goodly company of her loved ones who have preceded her to the Home of God, and she, with them, will await the coming of husband, children, her aged mother, five brothers and four sisters, who are now left to mourn her departure. The funeral services were held in the church of which she had been a member so many years. The Woman’s Relief Corps, of Winterset, of which she had been a devoted and beloved member, was present and took part in the final obsequies.

Winterset Madisonian – April 6, 1897
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Mrs. John Catterlin, who for several days had been lingering at the point of death, died last Saturday afternoon at two o’clock. Her long and wasting illness had so weakened the vital forces, that, in spite of the most devoted care and loving hopes of family and friends, it had been evident for some time that death was approaching. The hand of affliction has certainly been laid heavily upon the Catterlin family, which, after being repeatedly bereaved by death during the past few years, is now bereft of the wife and mother. The funeral was held last Sunday afternoon at the Methodist church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. Harris, assisted by Rev. B. E. S. Ely, of the Presbyterian church. A very large concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbors was present. An obituary notice will be published in our next issue.

Winterset Madisonian – April 13, 1897
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Obituary

Mrs. Nancy J. Catterlin was born in Washington county, Iowa, July 27th, 1846, and died in her home in Winterset, Iowa, April 3d, 1897. Her parents moved to Jefferson county, Iowa, and at a revival meeting held by Rev. A. J. Kirkpatrick she was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was then eleven years of age.

In the year 1865 the family moved to Madison county, Iowa, but many years of her life were spent in teaching school in Jasper and Marion counties, this state. She also taught in the schools of Winterset during her earlier residence here. Her success as a school teacher may be inferred from the fact that she taught thirty-eight terms of school, and might have continued in her noble work, as her services were eagerly sought after, but a call to other duties made it necessary for her to decline making other engagements.

On the 14th of December, 1882, she was married to Mr. John Catterlin, in Monroe, Jasper county, Iowa. Four children came to bless their home, but two of them, Fay and John, died in early childhood. Mrs. Catterlin bowed heavily under the grief caused by the death of her beloved children, and although submitting without a murmur to the will of her Heavenly Father, yet the shadow of this great sorrow was never entirely lifted from her heart.

Her marriage to Mr. Catterlin brought her to Winterset where she made the home happy, and where she gathered around her a large circle of warm friends. She united with the Winterset Methodist Episcopal Church during the pastorate of Rev. C. H. Newell, and here she has continued to live loyal to the church and all its duties and interests, until God took her to a place in the Church Triumphant in heaven.

About four years ago her health began to fail, but she was hopeful that, with proper medical treatment, she would recover her health again. She made a heroic fight for life. She loved her home. Her family was constantly on her heart, and during the long years of suffering through which she passed, her great desire was to live to raise her children, and train them in all the virtues and graces of the Christian character. It was in the home that her beautiful Christian spirit and virtues shone most brightly. And down to the very last moment of her life, her husband was on her heart, and was the object of her deepest solicitude.

Her last and fatal illness began about the 1st of February last. She had been away for rest and medical treatment, hoping that the dread disease might yet be arrested and her life spared a little longer to her family. But God willed it otherwise. Upon her return home she was so prostrated that she had to take to her bed, from which to rise no more until the angels bore her ransomed spirit to the skies. During her long struggle with the sickness that caused her so much physical suffering and weariness, she submitted to the will of God with sublime patience and Christian resignation. While her physical powers waned, her spiritual life waxed stronger and stronger until all the shadows of fear and doubt were dispelled from her mind and she passed into the rest and glory of a victorious faith that enabled her to abide in the promise of Christ, “Lo, I am with you.” She readily accepted the sweet comforts of the blessed truths and promises of the Word of God. Her faith in God remained firm to the end. To friends coming to her bedside she would say, “I am nearly Home, nearly Home!” She died peacefully, in full assurance of the rest of Heaven through the merits of Christ her Savior.
She has gone to meet a goodly company of her loved ones who have preceded her to the Home of God, and she, with them, will await the coming of husband, children, her aged mother, five brothers and four sisters, who are now left to mourn her departure. The funeral services were held in the church of which she had been a member so many years. The Woman’s Relief Corps, of Winterset, of which she had been a devoted and beloved member, was present and took part in the final obsequies.

Note: Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.