Eddy, Rebecca (Young) 1833 – 1915

EDDY, YOUNG, CUPERNELL, PIKE, BENTZ

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:46

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Apr. 23, 1915 P-4 C-2

EDDY.
Rebecca Young was born in Alburgh, Grand Isle County, Vermont, on November 20, 1833. She was married to Augustus Eddy of the same place in 1855.
They came to Iowa in the year in 1856.
She lived near or in Cresco until the spring of 1911. Her husband passed away on November 14, 1904.
Six children were born to the union: Austin of Erhard, Minn.; Alice Cupernell, of Pasadena, Cal.; Jennie Pike, of Alburgh, Vermont; Florence Bentz, of Springfield, Mo.; William, of Cresco, Iowa, and Melvin, of Monona, Iowa. She made her home with the latter son during her last days surrounded with every comfort and in great happiness.
Mrs. Eddy was a good Christian, a good mother and wife. She was always reaching out her hands to the poor and needy and always doing unto others as she wished to be done by. She united with the Congregational church in early life and always lived in the true faith which sustained her in life and accompanied her through the valley of death to the land of reality. She leaves beside her children and grandchildren, two brother, George Young of St. Paul, Minn., and Sumner Young of Canada, to mourn her going.
A dear sister and mother has gone to that better realm where happiness never ends. On April first she fell, causing a fracture of the hip from which she was not able to recover. She was a patient sufferer, always smiling, lovingly, upon those who tenderly cared for her. On the morning of April 15, 1915 at 9 o’clock she fell asleep.
The body was brought to Cresco and the funeral services were conducted in the Congregational church by Dr. D. T. Robertson, the pastor, and the body was laid away in the old Eddy burying ground, by the side of her husband. The burying ground is on land which she and her husband prempted{sic} when they came to this county in 1856.

Kendallville - Eddy Cemetery
 

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