MARY HARDING WEBSTER

WEBSTER, HARDING

Posted By: Becke Dawson (email)
Date: 1/3/2008 at 10:32:41

IOWA STATE REGISTER, Tuesday, March 1, 1881

OBITUARY - The death of Mrs. C. P. WEBSTER, whose funeral occurred at the family residence on Pleasant Street yesterday, is one of those sad events that impress all hearts. She was in just the position in life, with a husband and three small children, when it seems like she was most needed, that she is taken. But such is the lot of our humanity. Her maiden name was MARY HARDING, and she was born in Pennsylvania, December 16, 1845. Left an orphan at an early age, she was reared by a sympathizing relative, who carefully watched over her. January 14, 1869, she was married to C. P. Webster, who, with his little ones, to-day sit in the shadow of a great sorrow. She has been for many years a member of the Presbyterian church, and with a full faith in the Master whom she had served, went into the unseen. Her funeral was conducted yesterday by REV. STEWART, of the Presbyterian Church, assisted by Elder LUCAS, of the Christian Church, while the house was thronged with a concourse of sympathizing friends. The pall bearers were the officers and employees of the Iowa Loan and Trust Co., Mr. Webster being the Assistant Treasurer of that institution. Thus at the early age of thirty-five years has passed away a loving wife, a self-sacrificing mother and a confiding Christian, who will be mourned by many hearts in our city. Let us hope that the words of the song so beautifully sung at the funeral by MRS. CHEEK may be true in all their fullness:
"Asleep in Jesus, peaceful rest, Whose waking is supremely blest; No fear, no war shall dim the hour, That manifest the Saviour's powers."