Elizabeth (Longabaugh) Shreves (1907)
LONGABAUGH, SHREVES
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 3/3/2010 at 08:12:22
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 27, 1907,
Page 2Clanton Valley
ELIZABETH SHREVES
Elizabeth Longabaugh was born August 18, 1835, in Ohio, came to Madison county in 1853. She was married to Jonah Shreves in 1854. To this union was born 12 children, 9 girls and 3 boys.
She deparated this life June 21st, 1907, aged 71 years, 10 months and 15 days. She leaves her husband and 9 children to mourn her death. She was for years a great sufferer with cancer.
She united with the Christian Church when a young girl and remained a faithful member until her death. The funeral sermon was delivered by her friend and neighbor, S. W. Lee, and the remains laid to rest in the St. Charles cemetery.
________________________The Indianola Herald
Indianola, Iowa
June 27, 1907
Page 7, Column 4Elizabeth Longabaugh was born August 6, 1935, in Wyandotte County, Ohio, and came to Madison county, Iowa, in 1853, her father dying on the road here.
July 9, 1854 she was married to Jonah Shreves, this being the first marriage license recorded in Madison county. They lived in Madison county till 1883, and since then have lived in Jackson township, Warren county, Iowa, where she died June 21, 1907, aged 71 years, 10 months and 15 days.
To them have been born three sons and nine daughters, one son and two daughters dying before her. Two sons and seven daughters with the husband were present at her death and mourn today, not as those who have no hope, but as those who know that mother has entered into her rest.
Soon after her marriage she united with the Christian Church and died with a perfect faith that He who had redeemed her, would receive her into his eternal home.
Two days before her death after a prayer and while we were singing “Happy Day,” and other of her favorite hymns, her face brightened and she said, “What a dreary world would be without the Christian’s faith and the Christian’s hope of Heaven.”
Thus passed away one of the early pioneers, who by her toil and love helped to build the foundations of this beautiful West, one who was a great lover of her home, and in a spirit of patience and love, bore the burdens of the early settler and the privations of a pioneer life.
In an unusual degree she held her family with the strong cords of maternal love and in very few homes would you see more of the love to mother and the spirit that crowns her as the queen of their love nor a home to which the children going out to homes of their own delighted to come back to see mother and get her loving counsel and cheer.
A great congregation gathered for her funeral at St. Charles, preached by S. W. Lee, a friend of the family for over 25 years, assisted by Rev. Mercer, pastor of the M. E. Church.
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