ASKEW, Miss Etta:Died 1913

ASKEW

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Date: 4/15/2016 at 16:55:29

**Handwritten: d. 1 JAN 1913

STOCKPORT, VAN BUREN CO., IOWA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1913
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ETTA ASKEW EXPIRES

Hand Been Sick Less Than Week - Dreaded Pnuemonia Supposed to Cause Death

AN ARDENT CHURCH WORKER
**Handwritten: STOCKPORT NEWS 3 JAN 1913

Hand Spurned all Medical Assistance Except that of Chiropractics Until too Late.

Word came to us Monday of the illness of Miss Etta Askew who had then been confined to her bed since Saturday, but a great gloom cast of the entire city and community when the word was given out of the sudden death on Wednesday evening last, at six o'clock, of Miss Etta Askew, a maiden lady, who with her aged, widowed mother - Mrs. Wm. Askew - made their home in the first house west of the Chapter House.

Miss Askew had, on the day before Christmas, worked strenuously to assist in the prepnring(err) of the tree and exercises of the childred at the Methodist church, and it is presumed that in all probability here is where the severe cold was contracted that terminated in her untimely demise. Miss Askew was a lady who ardently done all within her power for the uplifting of Christianity, and, no matter what was on the program of this nature, she was always at the head, and more than done her part. She was a lady who had and retained numerous friends. Always of a pleasing and pleasant nature it was the least trouble in the world for her to hold her friendships.

It was not thot she was seriously ill, for, on the afternoon of her death, she was up, around the home and had just finished combing her hair, while her mother was preparing the evening meal and upon taking it to her daughter, who was then reclining on the bed in another part of the house, she discovered there was something radically wrong and went to the telephone telling the operator to have some of the neighbors come immediately. One (unreadable) Mrs. J.C. Silver, who, on her way over, had Dr. Nellie Morris, the only M.D., called in the case, to go with her, but before either lady could reach the bedside, Miss Askew had gone to her reward - so sudden was her demise.

The strangeness of the whole affair seems to be that she steadfastly refused the aid of competent physicians, but clung to the belief that a chiropractic could alleviate and cure her case, when all the time she was gradually reaching the end.

We have lost our darling sister,
She has bid us all adieu;
She has gone to live in heaven,
And her form is lost to view.
Oh, that dear one, how we loved her!
Oh, how hard to give her up!
But an angel came down for her
And removed her from our flock.

She had no fears of death. Her great desire to live was that she might be of use to her mother in her declining days and to her friends in making their lives more pure and happy by her kindly deeds and good example. Truly, the world is better by her having lived in it. That she had many friends was abundantly proven by the large concourse who called at the home immediately they knew of her death. Sympathetic tears were seen on many faces and there will always be a light in the windows of our memories for the loved one that has gone.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book F, Page 273, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA