Lois Miranda (Slauson) Morgan (1917)

AGG, MORGAN, SLAUSON, WILKINS, WOODMAN

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:53

The Stuart News
Stuart, Iowa
Thursday, May 31, 1917
Page 1, Column 5

Lois Miranda Slauson, daughter of Jesse and Eliza Ann Slauson, was born in Albany county, New York, December 12, 1838, and died at her home in Stuart, Iowa, May 26, 1917, aged 78 years, five months and fourteen days. When about 7 years old she removed with her parents from her childhood home in New York to the State of Illinois, near Galesburg. Her education was such as was afforded in the common schools of the country at that early day. She was happily married to Nathan Morgan December 29, 1853 at Galesburg, Illinois. This last December they passed their sixty-third wedding anniversary, an unusual record of married life.

She with her husband moved to Montgomery county, Iowa, in 1882, then to the farm in Madison county, just east of the Mount Vernon church, where they lived a few years. In 1893 they came to Stuart, Iowa to make their home. She had lived in the house where she died for seventeen years. She was the mother of four children, two daughters and two sons, Eveline D, now Mrs. Woodman of Ames, Iowa, Ida M., Jesse S. and Oscar W. Two of the children, Ida M. and Jesse S. died in infancy. She is survived by her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Woodman and one son, Oscar W.; six grandchildren and four great grandchildren, and by three brothers, Lewis E. and Henry E. Slauson of Bedford, Iowa, and Charles a of Stuart, Iowa. One sister and two brothers have passed on before.

She professed faith in Christ and united with the Methodist Protestant Church in 1870 in Knox county, Illinois. After coming to Stuart, Iowa she united with the Methodist Episcopal church. In her church activities she was abundant as long as she was able. She taught in the Sunday school while in Montgomery county, Iowa, and she was especially active in the Ladies’ Aid Society in Stuart.

A faithful wife, devoted mother, good neighbor and earnest Christian has gone. One word characterizing her is that she was of a sweet disposition. She had been shut in for a long time and had not been up town for three years. Near the end while suffering great pain, she was asked if the Savior was precious to her, “Oh, yes,” she answered. Mrs. Morgan was a very lovely woman and greatly beloved by those enjoying her friendship.

The funeral was held at her late home on Monday afternoon, her pastor, Rev. Wm. E. Hardaway officiating. Messrs O. W. Baker and Harold Pote and Mesdames Woof and Harold Pote sang “Rock of Ages,” “Jesus Savior Pilot Me,” and “Never Nearer to the Cross.”

The burial was in South Oak Grove cemetery where the following old friends and neighbors bore her to her last rest: Messrs A, S. Raber, W. H. Parker, O. W. Baker, Ray Peters, A. C. Curtis and Wm. Wright.

The following relatives and friends were here from a distance, the daughter Mrs. Woodman, a granddaughter Mrs. Agg and two children of Ames, Iowa; a brother Henry E. Slauson of Bedford, Iowa a nephew Walter Wilkins of Redfield, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Alex Wilkins, Frank Wilkins, Menlo, Iowa; Mrs. Susie Tippet and Miss Nettie Wilkins of Glendon, Iowa.

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