Nellie Violetta (Sheehey) Heyermann (1878-1904)

HEYERMANN, SHEEHEY

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 5/26/2023 at 19:13:54

From Ames Times, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, June 16th, 1904.

Nellie Sheehey Heyermann

Died, at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. Roger Sheeley, on Sunday, June 12, 1904, Mrs. Nellie V. Heyermann.

Nellie Violetta Sheehey was born June 7, 1878. She was married to August W. Heyermann on February 12, 1903.

At the age of sixteen she was converted and united with the Baptist church at Kelley. She was a loving and dutiful daughter, a devoted and affectionate wife. Her many friends knew her by her beautiful life and sweet, unselfish nature. Her death was a triumphant proof of her Christian faith, as she called her dear friends around her and told them of the beautiful vision beyond and friends gone before, and exclaimed with triumphant joy "Now I now what eternity means." She was full of expressions of gratitude that she was permitted to spend the last hours at the cherished old home, the place of her birth and her childhood and youthful association.

Funeral services were held at the home on Tuesday afternoon, June 14, at two o'clock, conducted by Rev. S. H. Mitchell, the old time pastor of her parents. To him, who is the writer of this note, the occasion was of unusual and peculiar interest and pathos. It had been his privilege to unite these parents in marriage over thirty years ago. He had buried their first child, an infant of a few days, and now only on year and five months ago, he had united the deceased in matrimony to her now so deeply sorrow stricken husband, August W. Heyermann, and her beautiful testimony in the hour of her departure in one of the brightest that a ministry of over forty years has been witness of.

The universal esteem in which Nellie was held was evinced by the many beautiful floral offerings, the great assembly of friends and neighbors to pay tribute to her memory and by the tearful faces and suppressed sobs with which they viewed for the last time her beautiful remains. It was, throughout, a most chaste and beautiful testimonial to a charming life, and one ever to be cherished as a precious memory.