Eliza (McMichael) Hindman (1909)

HINDMAN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 4/6/2010 at 10:19:13

Winterset Reporter
Thursday, March 25, 1909
Page 5

Pitzer Points

Mrs. R. M. Hindman passed away Thursday night at her home west of Pitzer. The funeral was held from the church the following day and the remains were laid to rest in the Jackson township cemetery. Mrs. Hindman was well known and leaves a host of friends who sympathize deeply with the bereaved husband and children.
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Dexter Sentinel
Dexter, Iowa
Thursday, April 1, 1909

Eliza McMichael, the youngest of a family of eight children, was born in County Antrim, Ireland, November 15, 1854, and passed away quietly at her home near Pitzer, March 19, 1909, aged 54 years, 4 months and 24 days. In the year 1863 she came to America with her father settling in Pennsylvania and later moving near Bevington, Ia. Where she was married to Robert M. Hindman April 24, 1873. They moved to their farm in Jackson Township, which remained her home till the time of her death.

Of this union were born three children, two sons and one daughter, who together with a grief stricken husband are left to mourn the loss of a kind wife and mother.

The children are: Charles Ellsworth, Etta, the wife of Lem Schoff, and Robert Alexander, all of whom were present at the time of her death. She also leaves two grandsons. She is survived by two brothers, John McMichael of Winterset, and Thomas McMichael of Bevington, her father, mother, three sisters and two brothers having preceded her to the better land.

She was converted about twenty years ago and united with the United Presbyterian Church at Pitzer and remained a faithful worker until death.

About twenty-four years ago she was taken suddenly ill with neuralgia of the stomach and suffered many attacks afterward. About December 1, 1908, she was again stricken and the last eighteen weeks were ones of great but patient suffering. All that medical skill could do was of no avail and on March 19 she fell into the peaceful sleep from which there is no awakening. She has passed to that Great Beyond where there is no suffering—no more death.

She was an exemplary wife and mother and a good friend and neighbor, always ready to help the needy. Her gentle Christian manner made her endeared to all.

The funeral services were held from the U. P. Church at Pitzer Saturday at one o’clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Barr. A large concourse of neighbors friends accompanied the remains to their last resting place in the Pitzer cemetery, there to await the glad resurrection here.

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