Mary Eva (Marston) Payne (1925)

HARTFORD, MARSTON, MURPHY, PAYNE, STEVENSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 12/14/2010 at 14:06:07

Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, February 26, 1925
Page 8

Earlham

The remains of Mrs. Howard Payne arrived Sunday morning from Kansas, where she died at the home of her daughter. Funeral services and burial were held at Penn Center Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Bigelow of Adel, conducting.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, February 26, 1925

Mrs. E. Howard Payne, of Linden, passed away Friday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Inez Halford near Kansas City after a brief illness with pneumonia. The body was brought here by Mr. and Mrs. Halford Sunday and laid to rest in Penn Center Cemetery Tuesday after a service at Penn Center conducted by the former pastor of the family Rev. Bigelow, of Adel. All of the nine children were present: Byron and his family from Mason City, Paul from Mason City, Roc from California, Ed. Payne and his family from Minnesota, Omer and Truman from Linden, Mrs. Stella Stevenson from Missouri and Mrs. Inez Halford from Kansas City. The six sons acted as pallbearers. Mrs. Payne resided for many years in Penn Township and was well known and beloved by a wide circle of neighbors. Mr. Payne and his children are the objects of much sympathy on account of this sad bereavement.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, March 5, 1925

Mary Eva Marston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Marston, entered this life on Feb. 9, 1865, in Henderson county, Illinois, and at the age of 5 years, with her parents moved to Dexter, Iowa, locating on a farm in Madison county. Here she received her education and training for life and its usefulness, here she taught successfully in our schools for several years.

January 19, 1886, she was united in marriage to E. H. Payne at her home. To this union were born ten children, the youngest, Hope, dying in infancy. The remaining children Mrs. Stella Stevenson, of Skidmore, Missouri, Ed F., of St. Cloud, Minn., Mrs. Inez Hartford, of Merriam, Kansas, Paul N. and Bryan F. of Mason City, Iowa, Truman H., of Linden, Iowa, R— L. of Holtville, Cal., Omer K. and Dorothy at home were present to pay loving reverence to a precious and devoted mother.

Besides the husband and children left in grief and loneliness, she leaves one sister, Mrs. Cilvia Murphy, of Dexter, Iowa, George W. Marston, of Indianola, Iowa, and W. Hollis Marston, of Pamona, California; fifteen grandchildren are left, some of whom will remember their grandmother as a loving friend of their childhood; also a host of relatives and friends, for she was loyal, patient and charitably disposed toward all with thom she was associated and her friends are numbered by those who knew her.

In early womanhood, Eva confessed her faith in Christ and united with the Penn Center M. E. church, where she served as organist, Sunday School teacher and in every capacity that offered to be of service. In 1892, she transferred her church affiliation to the Church of Christ, to which she led each of her children as they reached the years of understanding.

Following a period of declining health an attack of pneumonia proved beyond her physical endurance and on Feb. 20th, at the home of her daughter Inez in Merriam, Kansas, she passed into the ---- that knows no earthly awakening, at the age of 60 years and 11 days.

She kept the faith. Her life ended with no broken promises. She was faithful to her friends and family, and to her God; and she has entered into the rest that remaineth for the children of God.

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