Lucretia (Daniel) Harrell Leech (1902)

DANIEL, HARRELL, HERRELL, LEECH, KLEIN, THRIFT, ROUZER, COX, VANBUSKIRK

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/19/2009 at 08:08:25

Winterset Madisonian – July 31, 1902
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Mrs. Lucretia Leech, the aged mother of Mrs. Lew Klein, died on Monday of this week, after an illness of several weeks duration. Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. H. White assisted by Rev. P. H. McDowell, and interment in the Beardsley cemetery in Scott township.
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Winterset Madisonian – August 7, 1902
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Obituary

Mrs. Lucretia Leech was born in Jackson county, Indiana, June 16, 1838; died at Winterset, Iowa, July 28, 1902, aged, therefore, 64 years, 1 month and 12 days old. She was married to C. D. Herrell in December, 1857. Mr. Herrell died October 15, 1878. She was married again to J. L. Leech, May 4, 1881. Mr. Leech died August 12, 1897, since which time Mrs. Leech has lived alone or spent the time visiting among her children.

From the first union seven children were born. One son, Fred, died August 25, 1880, at the age of six years, and one son and five daughters remain: Lute W. Herrell, Mary D. Thrift, Annie L. Rouzer, Emma M. Cox, Florence S. VanBuskirk and Lyda Klein.

In her earlier life Mrs. Leech was a member of the Baptist church, but for a number of years before her death she was a member of the United Presbyterian church of Winterset. Mrs. Leech was a real Christian, faithful and true to her church and her God as well as to her home and family. Her life ripened into the fullest and most confiding trust in God, and she was ready to enter on the heavenly inheritance. She took great delight in the reading of God’s word and in prayer during her last sickness, and often expressed her confidence in God, and of her desire to go when it was His will to take her. So often she said she rested everything in Him and was ready for whatever He had in store for her. During her last conscious moments she repeated over and over: “All’s well, all’s well,” and “nothing more.” She has gone to the better land to be forever with her Lord.

Note: Buried beside her first husband, Chester Davis Harrell in the Beem-Beardsley cemetery.

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