ATTIX, Adaline Clarissa: Died 1912

ATTIX, TAYLOR, PARKER

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MRS. A.C. ATTIX.

On the 8th day of August, 1836, Adaline Clarissa Taylor came to gladden the home of John and Mary Taylor, which was located near the town of Jackson, Missouri. That same fall the parents of the little girl moved to a farm six miles west of Springfield, Ill., where the subject of this sketch grew to womanhood. Although her mother was married twice and bore eight children, only one survives. She is Miss Emma Taylor of Springfield, who lives on and is proprietress of the farm purchased by her father in 1836. The girlhood days of Mrs. Attix were spent in that locality that figures so largely in settling the destiny of our country just before the days o f the Civil War. But neither political nor financial strife could quench the ardent lover's fire and so Clarissa's heart was won by John P. Attix, and she gave him her hand in holy matrimony, March 8th, 1854. Four children graced their home, all of whom, except Mrs. Kate Park, of Keosauqua, have passed to the silent country from whence no traveler returns. Charles Edmond died in infancy, Fannie Bell in 1886 and Edward C. in 1901. Mr. and Mrs. Attix lived in Illinois until 1863, moving that year to Iowa and locating in South Keosauqua. Two or three moves were made in this vicinity before the fall of 1868 and then Mr. Attix took his family to Edwin Manning's farm south of Keosauqua where they lived until the father's death in 1882. In the fall of that year the widow purchased what had been known as the Capt. Baker property in Keosauqua. Here, together with her son and daughter, she made her home. From this place she never moved. In gratitude of soul and energy of body Mrs. Attix lived for thirty years an object of Christian fortitude and gentle grace. It was here she passed away in the evening of Aug. 29, 1912, aged 76 years and 21 days. Mrs. Attix gave her heart to God in her sixteenth year and joined the Baptist church in Springfield, Illinois, but coming to Keosauqua and finding no Baptist church she joined the church of her husband, who was one of the honored class leaders in the Methodist Episcopal church. To this affiliation she was most true, although feebleness of body had kept her from church attendance for the last few years. The last months of her life were attended by much weakness and several weeks of lingering suffering during July and August made her long for deliverance that she might go to be at rest with Him in whom she had long trusted. The end came from a complication of diseases and the disability that always accompanies old age and hard work. Besides the loved ones mentioned there are, left mourning, six grand-childred and one great-grand child, besides other relatives and a host of friends.

"Soldier of Christ, well done,
The battle's o'er, the victory won
And thou has gained the crown."

The funeral services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. C.A. Field, in the Methodist Episcopal church at Keosauqua, Aug. 31, 1912, at 2:00 o'clock p.m., and the remains were placed at rest in the Purdom cemetery.
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We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their sympathy, assistance and kindness during the last days of our mother and grand-mother.
MRS. KATE PARK,
MISS LENA PARK.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book F, Page 259, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA