Catherine Bowlsby (1894)

BOWLSBY, HYSKELL

Posted By: Cay Merryman (email)
Date: 7/23/2004 at 20:25:17

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday February 23, 1894, page 2

Catharine Hyskell Bowlsby was born in Mahoning township, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, July 4th, 1841, and died at her home in Scott township, Madison county, Iowa at 10 o'clock p.m. January 27th 1894, aged 52 years 6 months and 23 days.

Her parents moved to Walnut township, Madison county, in the spring of 1856. She was united in marriage with B. F. Bowlsby, June 28th, 1860, and to them were born eleven children, six boys and five girls, all now living except one who died in infancy.

Sister Bowlsby was converted when a small girl, and united with the Methodist Episcopal church in which communion she lived for over forty years.

Her last sickness was of short duration only about three weeks, but as the end approached she manifested an implicit interest in the Saviour and exalted in the goodness of God to the last. A short time before she died, her husband said to her, "Ma, it is good to trust in the Saviour, is it not?" She said, "O yes! Bless the Lord O my Soul. Bless his Holy Name." Her end was peaceful......Sister Bowlsby was a true and faithful wife, a kind and solicitous mother, a good neighbor, and an exemplary Christian woman, while she was of a.......catholic spirit, loving God's people of every name, yet she had a peculiar attachment to and love for the church in which she had been brought up, (her parents and their relatives for many generations past being identified with the Methodist Episcopal church) with which she cast in her lot so early in life.

Her funeral services were conducted by Rev. Fred Harris, pastor of the Winterset Methodist Episcopal church, in the Bethel M. E. church, of which she had been a member ever since its organization. Her funeral sermon was preached from the text: Isaiah 35:10. A large congregation of her friends and neighbors attended the services and followed the remains to the cemetery at Winterset, Iowa, thus testifying by their presence their respect and love for one who had moved among them for so many years, and was known only to be loved.

The following lines were written as a tribute of affection by one of her daughters.

Farewell mother! Farewell mother! - Thou hast loved us long and well, - How we miss thee none can tell, - Jesus called thee, all is well.

Farewell mother! Farewell mother! - Once again we say, farewell, - Till we meet beyond the river, - Happy there with Him to dwell.

Note: burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.