Lydia A. (Highley) Potter (1854-1904)

HIGHLEY, POTTER

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Date: 9/27/2016 at 14:49:17

DEATH CLAIMS A PIONEER
Mrs. W. H. Potter Passes Away Suddenly on the 2Oth.

A few hours of pain, a short time of suffering, then Death crept into the home of AV. H. Potter, of this township, on Saturday and took away wife and mother. The news reached the friends in town and country within a few minutes and to all it seemed scarcely possible that within the space of a day or two one who had mingled with friends about the community in good health and spirits a short time before had gone to the other shore.

The funeral service was held at the home on Tuesday at 10:30 o'clock, and the gathering of friends was very large. The funeral sermon by her pastor, Rev. Beier, was a tribute that is seldom heard. The choir of the Christian church at Cleghorn sang several songs which were well rendered. Interment was made at Prairie View.

Besides the father, four children, Orpha, Elsie, Alvin and Mamie, deceased leaves five brothers, one sister and an aged mother in Indiana to mourn her death.

Deceased was a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeoman lodge at this place.

Those from abroad to attend the funeral were, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Covert of Cherokee, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Potter and son Charles and daughter Pearl and W. T. Warner and daughter of Primghar, Andrew E. Knutson of Linn Grove and R. J. Locke of Sutherland.

Lydia A. Highley was born at Mier, Grant county, Indiana, June 10, 1854; died March 20, 1904. On January 12, 1879, she was united in marriage to W. H. Potter, who is left with the four children born to them, to mourn her departure.

The family moved to Benton county, Iowa, the same year of their marriage, arriving at Vinton in February. In September, 1881, the family came to O'Brien county and remained here since that time.

Deceased was a member of the Christian church, having joined the church at Prairie Creek, Benton county, Iowa, in 1879. She not only professed Christianity but there are many who are able to testify to the fact that she practiced what she professed. She was a charter member of the church which was organized in what is known as the Prunty school house, south of Paullina, and which afterwards was reorganized and moved to Cleghorn.

Paullina (Iowa) Times, Mar 31, 1904, p5