HUBEL, Mary (1819-1902)

HUBEL

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 11/17/2018 at 00:46:38

Mary Hubel
ROLFE POCAHONTAS COUNTY, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1902
OBITUARY:
ROLFE POCAHONTAS COUNTY, IOWA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1902
-- Grandma Hubel Called to Rest --
Died -- At the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. S. Smith, at Plover, Iowa, on
Monday, February 10, 1902, Mrs. Mary Hubel, in her 83rd year.

Many old settlers will recall Grandma Hubel, long a resident of Plover and whose
husband, Wenzel Hubel, was the first postmaster of Pocahontas, Iowa. Mary
Kershka was born at Piseck, Bohemia, Austria, 1819. She was married to Wenzel
Hubel at the age of 21. They emigrated to America and lived in Canada in 1850,
coming to Iowa City in 1851, where Mr. Hubel worked at his trade as a stone
cutter, and the pillars on the east side of the old capital building are
specimens of his work, which remain as a monument to his memory. At the removal
of the capitol to Des Moines they removed to Tama county and purchased the tract
of land on which the town of Vining is now built. From this place they moved to
Fort Dodge in 1869 and remained three years, moving to Pocahontas in 1871, where
Mr. Hubel served as the first postmaster of the town. In the eighties they
returned first to Fort Dodge, then to Tama and thence back to Vining, where Mr.
Hubel died in 1885. Since then she has made her home with her children. To
them were born eight children, one of whom was buried in the ocean and two on
Canadian soil. Two boys and three girls are yet living. The boys are William A.,
who lives on a farm just west of Rolfe, and Fred, who lives at the old home at
Vining. The daughters are Mary E., wife of J.S. Smith of Plover; Anna Drahos,
who lives at Cedar Rapids, and Sadie, wife of A.J. Eggspuehler of Plover. Thus
one by one they go into the newer and the larger life of the serener sphere.
Grandma was a loyal, devoted Catholic in belief; but she was better than a mere
Catholic or Protestant, for she had learned that grand truth.
Creeds are not Christ, the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man's mind. And the heart of the Greater Eternal is wonderfully kind.
Her only mission in life was to help others. Her children and her children's children arise to call her blessed.

The many friends who gathered at the Presbyterian church on Tuesday, February
11, spoke of the esteem in which she was held here, while those who gathered in
the Catholic cemetery at Vining the next day told that all along life's journey
she had sown friendship by her kindly deed.
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