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Elwood P. Diggs (1900)

DIGGS, GRIFFIN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 3/23/2014 at 07:32:33

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, February 15, 1900

Word was received here on Wednesday of last week that Elwood Diggs had died in Salem, Oregon, on the day before and that he would be returned here for burial. His remains, accompanied by his faithful wife arrived here on last Saturday evening and on Sunday afternoon all that was mortal of the loving husband and kind neighbor was laid to rest in the Earlham cemetery. The services were conducted by Rev. H. E. McGrew in the Friends church. A large number of friends and neighbors followed the remains to its last resting place. To the sorrowing family we extend our tenderest sympathy.

Elwood P. Diggs was born in Randolph county, Indiana, May 23, 1852. In 1871 with his parents, Joseph C. and Abigail Diggs, who have both preceded him to that sweet rest, he moved to Iowa where most of the time since he has resided. On the 25th of November 1878, he was united in marriage with Ella J. Griffin who, with his three brothers, one sister and many other relatives and friends, remains to bear the deep sorrow of his loss. Early in December 1891, he was converted and gave his heart and life to the Lord Jesus. From this step he never turned. He was received into the Friends church December 12, 1891. He departed this life in the early morning of February 6, 1900, in Salem, Oregon.

On the 9th day of January 1897, he was stricken with the malady which relinquished not its hold until life was extinct. He spent the following summer in Oregon, and the summer of ’98 in Arkansas in the hope that change of scene, air and water would bring back the health which he had learned to value.

In December he was called home where he remained with his father in his last sickness; but not gaining in strength he resolved after almost a year spent in his Iowa home to winter in a milder climate. With this purpose in view he went to Oregon where he lived the last days of his life with much suffering, but with a firm faith in his Savior and his God. About three days before his death the disease seemed to have accomplished its work and when asked as to his condition he would reply, “I am just resting,” and from those quiet resting hours he passed peacefully, as a weary child falleth asleep into the eternal rest of heaven.

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