Margaret A. Witherow (1905)
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Date: 2/5/2010 at 08:33:05
Winterset Reporter
Thursday, June 29, 1905
Page 3Obituary
Margaret A. Witherow was born in Ireland, December 1851. When but a child her parents came to America and made their way from Philadelphia in a few months over the mountains to Pittsburg, not halting long anywhere, and finally on to Ohio, where they located in Guernsey county, near Cambridge. That vicinity was the family home till the fall of 1881, when the family, consisting of the father and mother, Margaret and two sons, John and James, came to Iowa and located in Union township, this county. Margaret’s home was there till about twelve years ago when she moved to Winterset, which has been her place of residence since, with the exception of two years spent on the farm just east of this city. She passed quietly to her eternal home Monday morning, June 26, 1905, resting in the blessed hope in Christ.
A humble, true and helpful Christian has gone. Her life was a credit to the name and the Church of her Savior. She has followed Him since she was about twenty years of age, having united at that time with the United Presbyterian church of Cambridge, Ohio, under the ministry of the highly esteemed Dr. W. H. McFarland, well known throughout a large section of the East. Margaret A. Witherow’s life was conspicuous for its steady, quiet devotion to the Lord, to the Church and to the home. What Jesus said of one who ministered to Him in His earthly life can be said of her, “She hath done what she could.” Her hope was in Jesus and in Him she rests.
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 29, 1905
Page 5, Column 2Additional Locals
Miss Margaret Witherow, of this city, died Monday at Stanbury, Mo., where she went some five weeks ago to take special treatment for tuberculosis of the spine.
The remains were brought here Monday evening by way of East Peru and the funeral held from the late home on Wednesday afternoon, conducted by her pastor Rev. J. H. White, of the U. P. church.
Note: Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.
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