Lucinda (Taylor) Bates (1822-1900)

TAYLOR, BATES

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/27/2015 at 22:47:55

From Nevada Representative January 2, 1901

Died at her new home in Harlan, Iowa, Christmas morning, after a brief illness, Mrs. Lucinda Taylor Bates, aged 78 years 7 months and 15 days.

Mrs. Bates was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, May 10, 1822. In 1838 she was married to W. S. Bates and eight years later they moved from Ohio to Illinois. After eighteen years residence in Illinois they came to Iowa and located in Benton county. From 1870 to 1877 the family resided in Nebraska, returning then to Iowa and making this city their home. Here for nearly a quarter of a century Mrs. Bates has gone in and out before our people without reproach--a good wife and mother, a wise homekeeper and kindly neighbor. During these years she had been called to part with husband and only daughter and to pass through other sore trials; yet amid them all she was brave and trustful. Her husband was a Universalist clergyman and the hopeful and inspiring views of God, life and destiny he taught, she fully shared, and adopted as the true solution of human experience. Her death was peaceful, without fear, and among her posterity, with whom she had made her home just two months before. Her remains, accompanied by her grandson, Dr. W. L. Bates, and wife, were brought to Nevada last Wednesday, and with neighborly kindness received at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Allen. The following day her funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church by Rev. W. P. Payne assisted by Rev. A. B. Schrader. The burial was in the Nevada cemetery. Her sons, James M. of Harlan and B. F. of Colorado, were hindered from attending their mother's obsequies, the former by illness, the latter by distance. A worthy christian woman has passed from earth.