Mrs. Alex. C. Logan 1877-

LOGAN, MORTI

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 4/6/2015 at 09:51:05

Maggie Morti Logan.

Mrs. Alex. C. Logan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morti, was born December 28, 1877, in Memphis, Tenn. Her mother died when she was but a child. In 1894 Mr. Morti and his daughter came from Memphis and settled on a farm near Sharon. January 27, 1898, she married Mr. Alex. C. Logan.

About a year ago her health began to fail and she left the farm, spending a few months at the home of her father in Bonaparte. Hoping to be benefited by the change she went to Kearney, Nebraska where she died Monday morning, June 17, aged 29 years, 5 months, and twenty days. The remains were brought here and funeral services were held Thursday, June 20, at Sharon church, Rev. Jas. Clark officiating, assisted by Rev. C. H. Witteman.

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Maggie Morti grew up in the South, but her father being raised in this locality and returning to our midst in her young womanhood she at once became one of us, and adapting herself to her environments was appreciated for her kindly qualities of head and heart by all who knew her.

She at once had passport to the friendship of all her fathers former acquaintances because of the esteem in which he was held and for the fact of her willingness to spend her young life in assisting him to retrieve lost fortunes, thus proving an affectionate and beautiful daughter in the home.

She married Mr. A. C. Logan, a young man of sterling worth and in every way fitted by natural and acquired attainments to become a worthy protector of one possessed of Maggie's inherent graces.

This union gave promise of the consummation of their friends highest hopes as to a successful and influential life until within recent years the hand of the affliction was laid upon Mrs. Logan. All that loving hands and hearts could do to avert the seeming inevitable was done, and a brave, confiding and trustful battle was fought till finally the end came - that which is common to us all - when, with an abiding faith in the Savior of men as professed by her and evidenced in her life she surrendered all of the ties of love and kinship, earthly, for at home in the great Beyond where sickness, sorrow, pain and parting shall be no more.

Yes, Maggie is gone and while the bereaved husband and father suffer, primarily, in this sad affliction are many friends experience a personal grief and enter into full sympathy for the loss of one whose life, so full of promise, was so early taken from us.

Note: Death year not stated but position in scrapbook suggests 1907.

Source: Entler Scrapbook, vol 3, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA