Warburton, Mary A. (Gibson) 1815 – 1896

WARBURTON, GIBSON, GREENHALGH

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Date: 6/16/2016 at 16:33:43

Iowa Plain Dealer February 21, 1896, FP, C5

Mrs. Warburton, mother of Will and J. H. Warburton of this place, died at Osage, Monday, and was brought here for interment, arriving on the afternoon train Wednesday. The funeral was held at the Morgan M. E. church immediately, and the remains laid to rest beside her husband at the Kendallville cemetery.

Iowa Plain Dealer February 25, 1896, FP C4,6

Obituary of Mrs. John Warburton.

Mary A. Gibson was born in Manchester, England, December 25, 1815, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Greenhalgh, in Osage February 17, 1895{sic}

In 1842, she was married to Rev. John Warburton, a local preacher of the Methodist church. In 1855, they came to the United States and located in Winneshiek County, Iowa. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom yet live.

The eighty years of her life had brought many and varied experiences; the leaving of her native land for the unfamiliar scenes of a new country; the quiet farm life then the shock of war that called her husband to the front, a member of the 6th Iowa Cavalry, and left her, with a heart full of anxiety, to care for the home and its interests, were some of these varied experiences. Then in May, 1867, her companion was called home. But amid all she did her work with a brave, cheerful heart, trusting in her Heavenly Father’s guidance.

She was one of the most devout, patient, cheerful, trustful Christians it has ever been the writers privilege to meet. For years she had frequent attacks of illness, often very severe, but amid them she never lost that cheerful, patient, happy nature. Death had no terrors for her. She would talk about it with the utmost freedom. The ruler of death was her Father whom she loved and trusted unfalteringly, and whom she thought about much more than than{sic} she did about death. Her old age was one of the brightest and happiest of earth. She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Ridgeway, Iowa, for over forty years. The remains were taken to Cresco, Iowa, yesterday for interment.—Mitchell County Press.

Transcriber’s Note: The year of death was 1896 according to her gravestone and the date of the paper was 1896. Also the Kendallville cemetery shows she is buried there.

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