STOUFFER, Dicy (1876-1897)

STOUFFER

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Date: 7/24/2009 at 22:34:19

Winterset Madisonian – October 6, 1897
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Dicie Montgomery Stauffer, wife of Wm. Stauffer, of Jackson township, Warren county, died on Friday night of quick consumption. Her four weeks’ old babe still lives but is very feeble. She was twenty-one years of age and had been a wife but one year, and was a most estimable young woman.

Winterset Reporter – October 7, 1897

Mrs. Will Sterouff, nee Dicy Montgomery, died at her home near St. Charles Friday night of consumption. We have no further data.

Winterset Reporter – October 7, 1897
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St. Charles

Another happy home was broken last Friday evening by the death of Mrs. Dicy Stouffer, nee Montgomery, wife of W. H. Stouffer, living some eight miles southeast of town. The funeral was held at New Virginia Sunday and was conducted by Rev. Farley. The cause of her death was consumption, she having been taken down with that disease early in the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Stouffer had been married but a year and one day at the time of her death, and were just getting well launched on the voyage of weeded life when death entered the home and with icy fingers made his imprint upon her brow—the luster faded from her cheek; the voice lost its resonance, grew basky and low; the step no more was elastic, but faltering and infirm; the monitor of life ceased to pulsate; the soul took its flight to the skies; another happy home was broken; a husband was plunged into an abyss of sorrow; a shadow of sadness and sympathy spread itself over the community; a long train of mourners followed the bier on its solemn journey to the grave; the clods rattled harshly above the form of a devoted wife and Christian woman, gone to join the innumerable tribes that slumber in the bosom of earth, there to rest until at the sound of the resurrection trumpet the grave shall be opened, the soul reunited with the body, and the faithful husband shall join the faithful wife in singing the songs of Moses and the Lamb throughout the never ending centuries of eternity. May the Divine healer who bindeth up the broken heart, assuage the grief, console and comfort the lamenting husband, sorrowing parents, and mourning friends.

Note: Burial is at the New Virginia Cemetery, Warren County, Iowa.