JACKSON, Miss Belle

JACKSON

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Date: 1/26/2017 at 17:56:22

MISS BELLE JACKSON

Miss Belle Jackson died at her home in Keosauqua, Saturday morning, Feb. 25. She was born in Level, Warren county, Ohio, June 7, 1851, and came to Iowa in 1880. For the past five years she had made her home in Keosauqua where she had many friends and acquaintances.

Miss Jackson was converted at the ago of seventeen, and joined the Methodist Episcopal church of which she was ever a consistent member. The deceased, while in health often conversed with the writer in regard to her religious belief which was always clear and positive. She was a loyal Methodist. She loved the church and its ministers.

Her disease was pneumonia, which was of about nine days duration, and during her sickness she spoke of her departure and to being resigned to the Lord's will. And while suffering severe pain she sang the hymns "I need Thee every hour," "Jesus love me this I know," and "I love to tell the old, old story," and we who are left feel a certainty that Miss Jackson has heard the welcome call, "it is enough, come up higher; they faith hath made thee whole."

She was one of the kindest of women, always ready to help and oblige even at personal cost, and were everyone whom her benevolent life has gladdened, to bring a rose to her grave, she would rest today beneath a world of flowers.

She leaves several sisters and brothers and other relatives and many friends to mourn her departure. Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. H.A. Ingham, in the Pittsburg church, and her body laid to rest in the near by cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book H, Page 81, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA