Malinda Jane (Payne) Mayo (1858-1907)

PAYNE, MAYO, PADELLFORD, SCOBIE, OSGOOD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/23/2017 at 17:47:08

From Nevada Representative December 27, 1910

DEATH OF MRS. C. F. MAYO

Mrs. Melinda J. Mayo, wife of C. F. Mayo, died at their home in this city Tuesday morning of an illness that had not bee regarded as serious until a very few hours before her death. The trouble was a gathering in her head, symptoms of which were first noticed about ten days before and which occasioned an increasing amount of pain and trouble, but which developed alarming results only during Monday night and the early part of Tuesday morning. She died a little before eight o'clock on Tuesday.

Melinda J. Payne was born at Madison, Wisconsin September 10, 1858, was married to C. F. Mayo at Aurora, Nebraska, September 26, 1883, and died at Nevada, Iowa, December 24, 1907 aged 49 years 2 months and 28 days. She is survived by her husband and six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldest of these, Mrs. Orrin Padellford of this city and the others at home. One son Frank was killed by the cars two years ago, and a little girl died in infancy. Mrs. Mayo was looked upon as a woman of superior character by those who came close enough to her to know her. She was a person of much consecration, and she is and will be most profoundly mourned. She was a member of the Christian church; and from that home of worship her funeral was conducted Thursday afternoon by Evangelist Maxey. There was a large attendance at the funeral; and among the relatives were her brother and sister, George W. Payne and Mrs. Martha Scobie, both of Gilmer, Nebraska, and her cousin, Mrs. Amanda Osgood of Mitchellville in this state. The interment was in the Nevada cemetery.

From Nevada Representative January 8, 1908

Tribute to Departed Worth, by a Friend and Neighbor

Mrs. Mayo was a woman of exceptionally kind and cheerful disposition. She was a kind, patient wife and mother, and always ready and willing to lend a helping hand to those around her. And through all the trials and sorrows that she passed she maintained a steadfast faith in God, and relied on the promise that says, "My Grace is sufficient." She will be sadly missed by us all. But we feel that our loss is her gain; and we only hope that when out time comes to depart this life that the words of the text from which her funeral sermon was preached can be as truthfully said of us as they were of her: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."