Susan Catherine (Disher) McPherson (1896)

DISHER, MCPHERSON

Posted By: Cay Merryman (email)
Date: 8/2/2004 at 16:16:55

Newspaper Unknown
February 1896

Susan Catherine Disher McPherson was born in Germany, Nov. 8, 1832. She came with parents to America when she was six months old.

April 25, 1850, in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, she married Valentine McPherson and to them were born eleven children of whom one son and four daughters and her husband survive her. In 1855 they came to Lee county, Iowa and in 1857 to Ohio township, Madison county, where she died Feb. 27, 1896.

For fifteen months before her death she had been a great sufferer, most of the time being compelled to sit in her chair day and night, but all the time without a word of complaint, she patiently waited until she should be called up higher. She never gave up her birth-right in the Lutheran church but remained steadfast in the faith of her parents. She said to her daughter a short time before her death, "I am prepared to go." The funeral, conducted by Rev. S. W. Lee, at the Ohio Baptist church, was attended by more than could be seated, thus testifying of their sympathy and love.

Note: Burial was made in the Hartman cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian
March 3, 1896
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Mrs. Susanna McPherson, aged sixty-three years, wife of Valentine McPherson, died of dropsy at her home, 4 miles south of St. Charles, on Thursday morning. Funeral at the Ohio Baptist church and interment at the Hartman cemetery, near Truro, on Friday. Mother McPherson has been in very poor health and a great but patient sufferer for almost two years, but is at last at rest. Her husband, also a great sufferer from disease, survives her, and one son and four daughters, all married, mourn the loss of a noble mother.
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Winterset Madisonian – March 6, 1896
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Mrs. Vol. McPherson died Thursday morning, February 27th, at her home three and one-half miles northeast of Truro. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church on Friday and were conducted by Rev. Lee. The remains were interred in the Hartman cemetery.
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Winterset Reporter March 5, 1896
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Mrs. V. McPherson passed away last Thursday morning, at 2 o’clock a.m., after an illness of about one year. Mrs. McPherson has been a great sufferer during her sickness. The funeral was held at the Baptist church Friday morning, at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. S. W. Lee.