Matilda (Kindle) McClure (1823-1879)

KINDLE, MCCLURE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/10/2012 at 23:43:49

From Nevada Representative May 7, 1879

Death of Mrs. McClure.

Another has gone. Death has another victim. Surely man is mortal. Death lays hold of the human form, life ceases, and we are launched into an eternal existance. Death comes with such a force that no earthly power is able to resist. It frees us from all sorrows and sufferings, ends all life's troubles, and gives us an admittance to that home where death is unknown. It visits the most secret places and takes the fairest from them. The rich, the poor, the gay, the sad, the learned and the illiterate, must all alike fall victims of death. How solemn the expiring hour. It brings a gloom over our feelings, turns gaety into solemnity, pleasure into sorrow, and gives us an awe which no other event can produce. Death visits the palace as well as the hut, summons the eloquent and honored as well as the ignorant and despised. His victims lie in the valley, on the hill and in the solitary depths of the ocean. When men aspire to wealth and honor, how often is it then that death freezes the life current in its channels, the soul departs to other worlds, the body is consigned to the tomb, and nother remains upon the earth but the remembrance of the once familiar form and their last words singing in our ears. To-day we ma be in the vigor of life and to-morrow prostrate in death. Death makes a final settlement of all human strife, removes all enemies, and disappointed the prospects of manhood, and darkens the prospects of youth. REXFORD.

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OBITUARY.

Died--on Friday morning, April 25th 1879, Mrs. Matilda McClure, wife of Samuel McClure. Having been acquainted with the deceased for the last 20 years, I thought perhaps you would allow space for few lines announcing her death.

The deceased came to Illinois with her husband, from Ohio, in 1857, and lived there until 1868, when they removed to Story county, iowa, near where they now live. She was a devoted christian, being a member of the Church of God, (Winebremarian) at Colo. She leaves a husband and six children, all of whom have the sympathy of the entire community. She never had an enemy in the world. The neighborhood broils never reached her. Her exhortations, her prayers and her kind words will never be forgotten. Though her voice is silent in death, her encouraging words and admonitions will still live. Funeral sermon by Rev. A. Wilson.

A FRIEND.
April 28th, 1879.