Gosting, Ellen (Mrs. Edward A.) 1846-1910

GOSTING, MEADER

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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
December 6, 1910

DEATH of Mrs. E. A. GOSTING
M. A. Moore received word yesterday of the death of Mrs. Edward A. Gosting, which occurred at her home in Manchester, Iowa, on Saturday. The remains will be brought here for burial and laid beside those of her father and daughter in the city cemetery, a brief service being held at the graveside early this morning, subsequent to the arrival of the train from the east.

Mrs. Gosting was an old resident of Plymouth county. She and her husband were among the early settlers in Stanton township. In the early eighties they took charge of Moore & Loring’s big ranch near Kingsley and subsequently moved to that town where Mr. Gosting worked for more than twenty years. A few years ago they went o Manchester to take up their residence.

Mrs. Gosting has many friends and relatives in this vicinity who will be pained to learn of her death.

The funeral will be held at half past ten this morning from the Grand Rapids Undertaking parlors.
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LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Friday, December 9, 1910

PIONEER WOMAN DEAD
WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SETTLERS IN STANTON
AN INVALID FOR FOUR YEARS
Mrs. E. Gosting, Who Lived in Plymouth County for Nearly Thirty Years, Dies After Long Illness, the Result of an Accident.

The funeral of the late Mrs. E. A. Gosting, brief mention of whose death was made in the last issue of this paper, was held on Tuesday morning at the Grand Rapids Undertaking Parlors and was attended by relatives and old friends. Rev. G. F. Whitfield, pastor of the First Methodist church, conducted the services and paid a fitting tribute to the virtues of the deceased woman, making a suitable and comforting address, reading the Twenty-third Psalm and offering prayer. The interment was in the city cemetery, were a brief prayer was offered and the remains laid to rest beside those of her father and two daughters who have preceded her in death. The pallbearers, old friends of the family, were: W. H. Perry, L. M. Bixby, J. Eberle, Adam Clarke, C. F. Werth and R. M. Latham.

Ellen Meader was born at Osborne, Isle of Wight, England, in 1846. When she was an infant her mother died. When a little girl she came with her father to Canada and in 1865 they came to Iowa, settling in Delaware county. Here she met the man who became her husband, Edward A. Gosting, who had then but lately returned from the front where he had served faithfully and bravely during four years of the Civil War.

They were united in marriage in Delaware county in 1866, where they lived until 1869, when they came to Plymouth county, homesteading in Stanton township, eight miles south of town. Here they toiled hard and underwent the privations and hardships concomitant with pioneer life, but were happy withal in their surroundings, their avocations, in their unselfish love and the rearing of their little family of daughters. In 1881 they moved to the Moore-Loring ranch in Elkhorn township, which they successfully superintended for nearly eight years. In 1888 they moved to Kingsley, where Mr. Gosting conducted a lumber yard for M. A. Moore for eighteen years.

About four years ago, Mrs. Gosting went from Kingsley to Mancester to visit a sister. While on this visit, one day while out driving, a horse ran away with the vehicle and Mrs. Gosting suffered a nervous shock, which was followed by a stroke of Paralysis. She was carefully nursed by her devoted husband and came back to Kingsley when sufficiently recovered to be moved, but gradually grew weaker. In her illness she longed for her girlhood home and old time associations, and with her husband returned to Manchester. During the four years she was a patient sufferer. In her affliction she displayed the Christian graces of fortitude and love. She longer to go and be at peace where the weary are at rest and awaited in hope the summons of the Lord. She passed away in the early morning of December 3, 1910. She sleeps in peace. From early life she was earnest Christian, born in a family where the worship of God was no mere form. Her earliest thoughts were directed to the higher things by a father who was himself a man of God, a preacher and worker in the vineyard. She united with the Congregational church in Kingsley when she went to that town and was a member of that church. Her belief in Christ sustained her in her last years, and the devotion of a loving husband whose solicitude for her welfare was as earnest, gentle and courteous as on the day on which he took her for his bride.

She is survived by her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Etta Redding, of Fayetteville, Ark. One daughter died in infancy and three daughters, Mrs. Byron Blackburn, Mrs. Bert Mills, and Annie Gosting grew to the beauty of womanhood and departed this life in youth, their early deaths being a lasting sorrow to the bereaved parents, whose mutual grief knit tighter the heart strings of affection. There are also two grandchildren.

Mrs. Gosting was a loving wife and mother, a friend in deed as well as in word, a neighbor in the truest sense, as can be testified to by scores of old residents. Her Christianity was not of the sour, puritanical kind, but was an uplift and help, a thing to be admired by those with whom she was acquainted, and who were admitted to the circle of her home. She was a woman who during her sojourn on earth did her best to make her home happy, surroundings pleasant for others, looking and hoping for the best, and finding a silver lining in every cloud.

Among those who attended the funeral from a distance were, Byron and Hazel Blackburn, of Pierson, the latter a granddaughter of the deceased and G. F. Krapfl, Kingsley.
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