Amy (Wilson) Mitchell (1922)

MITCHELL, WILSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/30/2013 at 07:12:12

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, May 31, 1922
Page 2

Earlham

The funeral of Mrs. Mitchell was held at the Friends church Thursday morning at 11 o’clock, with Rev. Lescault in charge. Mrs. Mitchell died very suddenly at her home on Sunday morning. She had been almost helpless for three years. She was a good woman, always loving and giving of herself for others. She leaves four children, a husband, four grandchildren, two brothers and one sister to mourn her loss.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, May 25, 1922
Page 1

Amy Wilson Mitchell was born January 26th, 1855 in Dallas County, Iowa, and with the exception of three years spent in Illinois, she has lived her sixty-seven years of life in one neighborhood.

She was one of eight children born to Samuel and Mary Wilson, pioneers of this country. Four of the sisters preceded their parents into the better country.

She was married to Charles Mitchell June 1st, 1884, and into this home came seven children, three daughters and four sons but three of these died in infancy. She is also survived by four grandchildren.

For almost three years she has been a helpless invalid, waiting for others to run her errands and move her from place to place but through all these days of helplessness she has shown a beautiful spirit of patience and resignation.

She was a birthright Friend and for a number of years has been a member of Bear Creek Meeting, and no one can look back upon her memory without feeling that she was a Christian.

Her wide circle of friends and loved ones and especially the home where she gave so many years of tender love and can and where for the past three years she in turn has received such tender and loving service lose heavily in the passing of such a life, but there are however some compensations. Her friends know that she is happier, and we are all made better in heart and richer in soul when we reflect upon her life. She has been released from all suffering and from the chair and bed to which she was tied for so many long weary hours. She is now free to run on errands of love for her Lord and Master.

She was a Christian hope which is worth all the wealth of the world at that moment when the life forces the fingers. Death through her loving Lord had been robbed of all its terrors. To her death was not a door which shut out life but one which opened into larger life. Not like the evening star lost to our view by the brightness of day. It was a home going.

The messenger who called her from this life came so quietly and unexpectedly that she was gone before her children and husband thought of her going. It came early in the day May 21, 1922.

She leaves the husband, four children, Ethel, Bert, and Earl Mitchell and Lorena Randall all of this place, also one sister and two brothers.

Funeral services were held from the Earlham Friends church May 25th, at 11 a.m., Chas. Lescault in charge. Burial was in Earlham cemetery.

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