MOSHER, Alma Miss 1872-1893

MOSHER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/4/2010 at 15:52:27

OBITUARY: Miss Alma Mosher, died 1893

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Miss Alma Mosher a bright and gifted girl, who died Jan. 24, is mourned by many friends in this part of town. In her last two moments she sang the last two lines of "Meet me There" and her last words were "O, I am so happy!"

Rev. Stabler preached from " Her sun is gone down while it was yet day." Much sympathy is with the bereft one.

(Mitchell County Press and Osage News Feb. 2, 1893)

Transcribed 2005 - Marilyn O'Connor

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OBITUARY: Alma L. Mosher, 1872-1893

Alma L., daughter of Edgar and Ursula Mosher, died in Douglas, township, Jan. 24, 1893, age 20 years and 28 days.

For over two years, Alma has been a sufferer of that dread disease, consumption; yet her decline was so gradual that only those who were constantly with her, realized how slowly but surely life was ebbing away.

On Saturday previous to her death, she was seized with a violent hemorrhage of the lungs, and although Dr. Lee was hastily summoned and did all in his power to relieve her, yet she grew worse until Tuesday at 4 a.m., when her weary spirit took its flight to that land where sorrow never enters. To enumerate her virtues would be the work of one who had known her long and well. Yet we can safely say none knew her but to love her.

She was a good musician, spending much of her time when able, in practice. Later as she grew weaker, she busied herself forming some token of remembrance for those she realized she must so soon leave; her last work being a wreath of flowers in which was inserted the family group and nicely framed, designed as a Christmas present for her parents.

But those busy hands are forever stilled, and her death has left a vacancy in the home which never can be filled; yet her friends mourn not as those who have no hope; for she left positive evidence of having gone to be with Christ, which is far better.

The funeral services were held on Thursday in the M. E. Church at Riceville, conducted by the pastor, Rev. D. S. Stabler, assisted by Mrs. Hinkley, pastor of the Congregational church. The words chosen for the text were found in Jeremiah, 15-9. "Her sun has gone down while it was yet day".

[Source: Mitchell County Press-News or Mason City Globe Gazette]

Transcribed 2002 by Marilyn O'Connor