WILSON, Della

WILSON, UMPHREY

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Date: 1/22/2017 at 19:26:33

OBITUARIES.
MRS. WILLIS D. WILSON.

Deep gloom was cast over the little congregation assembled at the Pittsburg church Sunday morning, when the news came that Mrs. Della Wilson had suddenly passed away. Friends were expecting to see her in church again when spring unfolded, but lo - a message that she was gone forever. The birthplace of Della D. Wilson was Canton, Missouri, February 24th, 1883. She died at her home in Keosauqua, Iowa, March 24th, 1912, aged 29 years and 1 month. Mrs. Wilson's childhood days were spent in her native state. At the age of nine she moved with her parents to Pittsburg, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood and completed her education in the Keosauqua high school. While attending a camp meeting in Birmingham, Iowa, she met Mr. Willis D. Wilson to whom she was married July 1st, 1903. To this union were born three children, Harry, Mary and Florence. Besides her husband and children, Mrs. Wilson is survived by her father, Mr. William Umphrey, who lives in Texas, and a sister, Mrs. Pearl Reed of Pittsburg, Iowa, her mother having died in 1906. At the age of fifteen Mrs. Wilson united with the Methodist church at Pittsburg where she held her membership at death. Mrs. Wilson was a sweet spirit. No one doubter her religion. She not only lived a beautiful life but all the tenderness peculiar to woman seemed to be especially hers. As the lifeless form of the young wife and mother was brought into the church of her girlhood days, all eyes became a fountain of tears, not only because of sympathy for bereaved ones, but because every one felt keenly the breaking of heart ties. If there is such a thing as a community heart it throbbed (missing) Wilson. The funeral sermon was preached by the pastor C.G. Ellis, who confessed it the saddest funeral he ever conducted. Yet mingled with the sorrow was the relief that a patient sufferer had ceased from her sufferings. Such partings would be unbearable but for the joyous hope of a resurrection, and so we "sorrow even not as others which have no hope," but sing with the poet.

"Thank God for the dear ones safe (journey)
Safe at home on the happy shore,
Where the smile of Father beahrs for aye,
And the shadow of pain shall beam no more.

Thank God for the hearts that have done with sin,
For the eyes shall never be blind with tears,
Thank God for the beautiful, entered in
To the perfect rest of the deathless years.

Thank God today for the hope sublime
Which fills our souls in the darkest hours
Thank God that the transient cares of time
Are wreathed in the glory of fadeless flowers."
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The husband, Mr. Wilson, desires to express his thanks to neighbors and friends forward and sympathy extended him in his bereavement.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book H, Page 79, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA