BUTTON, Eveline (died 1887)

BUTTON

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 1/20/2006 at 10:01:31

Obituary.

On Sunday last, at the family residence in Burr Oak township, occurred the funeral of Mrs. Eveline Button. She had ended her earthly life on Friday evening previous, Sept. 16, 1887.

Appropriate religious services were conducted at the house by Rev. R. D. Parsons assisted by Rev. A. M. Duboc, pastors respectively of the Methodist and Baptist churches of this city.

The remains were accompanied by her relatives and a long procession of neighbors and friends, and laid to rest in the Osage cemetery.

Mrs. Button was born in New York and her youth was spent in Chataugua, in that state, and there she was married. Her burial day would have been her sixty-third birthday.

Shortly after her marriage she came with her husband to Ripon, Wisconsin thence after two years, to Mitchell county, Iowa in 1866. By industry and skill they changed a portion of bare prairie to a fruitful farm.

She became a member of the M.E. church in early youth and has since maintained a quiet but consistent christian life. She was the mother of five children, four of whom are living and were all present at the funeral. One son, Rev. Albert Button coming from Des Moines, and another from Dakota.

The disease of which she died was cancer of the breast. It first made itself manifest in Febuary last. In the progress of the disease she has endured three surgical operations. After the last the disease attacked her lungs and so finished its fatal work.

Her end was in victory and peace. She called her family one by one to her bed, and expressed to them her assurance and gave them counsel as long as her strength would admit. She was a faithful wife, and a mother whose memory will be fragrant forever, and a neighbor whose quiet ways and uniform kindness will recur to mind as often as her name is mentioned or the place of her abode see. R.D.P.

[Osage News Sept. 22, 1887]