Virginia LaRue Cresap d. 1910

LARUE, CRESAP, THOMAS, HAYS, AMENT, GREER, HELM

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 6/25/2014 at 16:48:47

Mrs. Geo. M. Cresap.

Mrs. Virginia LaRue Cresap, wife of Mr. Geo. M. Cresap, died at her home in this city Sunday morning of the infirmities of old age in her seventy-seventh year. She had been ill for sometime and was improving until the day previous to her death, when she suffered a relapse. She was born and reared in the house where she resided and was one of the best and most favorably known women in the city and the county. She possessed a very congenial disposition and consequently made friends with everybody who was so fortunate as to form her acquaintance. She was one of the oldest members of the Lucinda B. Helm Methodist church of this city and was quite prominent in church affairs before her advanced age barred her from active service. Her kind and charitable acts endeared her to the hearts of all and few women were more highly cherished for their kindly acts than Mrs. Cresap. She was an ideal mother and wife and few homes were ever presided over with less discord than that of the deceased.

Her maiden name was Miss Virginia LaRue and she was the daughter of the late Warren RaRue [sic] and Eliza LaRue, the latter being a sister of the late Gov. John L. Helm. She was the last surviving member of her family, one sister, Mrs. Joseph Thomas and four brothers, Edwin, John, Warren and James Brook RaRue [sic] all having preceded her to the grave. She could well be called the mother of Elizabethtown as she was probably the oldest native born female resident of the city.

The deceased married Mr. Geo. M. Cresap in the early “60s?” who was then an employe of the L. & N. and afterwards engaged in the merchandise business in this city for about 35 years. To this union five children survive, two sons, Messrs. W. LaRue Cresap and Joseph T. Cresap and three daughters, Mesdames Horace Hays and Brooks Ament, all of this city, and Mrs. Robt. B. Greer of Louisville.

The funeral services were conducted Tuesday evening at the home by Rev. S. M. Miller and the interment took place in the city cemetery. — The Mirro. (Elizabethtwon, Ky.)

[Note: handwritten on article “2-13-10”]

Source: Entler Scrapbook Collection, vol 5, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA