Laura A. HARTPENCE MARSH (1845 - 1924)

HARTPENCE, MARSH, KEAGLE, WEESE

Posted By: Mickey VandeKamp (email)
Date: 5/23/2002 at 20:06:11

Obituary

Laura A. Hartpence was born September 3, 1845 at Indianapolis, Indiana. Coming to Iowa with the family in early childhood. They settled on a farm in Marshall county.

She was married to Lewis W. Marsh, October 12, 1865. To this union eight children, three sons and five daughters were born, three daughters preceeding her to the Eternal Home. The surviving children are Ralph E. of Charles City, Iowa; J. Walter, Mrs. Laura Keagle and Mrs. Grace Weese of Collins and Scott of Osage, Iowa.

Mr. and Mrs. Marsh came to Story county and settled on the old Marsh farm near Collins about the year 1870. Living near and in Collins until 1896, when lured by the sunny clime of California they moved to Pasadena, where they made their home until the deatn of Mr. Marsh on July the 16th 1923, when she returned to Collins and has since made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Keagle, where she passed away March the 8th, age 78 years 6 months and 5 days.

Mrs. Marsh was converted in her youth and ever lived a life of devotion to her Lord. She was for years a member of the Collins Methodist Episcopal Church, until she moved to California, where she and Mr. Marsh united with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena.

She was a devoted wife, a loving unselfish mother and loyal friend. Her outstanding traits of character being unselfishness, loving kindness and gentleness.

Besides the five children, she is survived by twenty-seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and a host of friends.

COLLINS GAZETTE March 134, 1924