Todd, Harriet (Richards) 1828 - 1909

RICHARDS, TODD, WHEELER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/12/2023 at 12:59:40

Source: Decorah Republican Sept. 9, 1909, P6 C1

The burial of Mrs. Harriet Richards-Todd will take place Tuesday in our cemetery. We are without particulars.

Source: Decorah Republican Sept. 9, 1909, P6 C3

O. Richards came from his home in Ohio to visit his sister Mrs. George Todd who is very poorly.

Source: Decorah Republican Sept. 9, 1909, P6 C4

Mrs. George Todd, who has been feeble so long, passed away at her home north of town Sunday morning.

Source: Decorah Republican Sept. 23, 1909, P6 C3

Died:--Near Kendallville, Iowa, Sept. 5, 1909, Mrs. Harriet Richards-Todd, aged 81 years. Mrs. Todd and her husband were pioneers of Fremont township, Winneshiek county, Iowa, settling on an unbroken farm in the early 50’s. Facing bravely the hardships of that early time they established a home and gained a comfortable competence. Mrs. Todd was known far and wide as a woman of culture and high ideals, a leader of thought in her neighborhood generous in her benefactions, and noted for her hospitality. She was identified with the Disciples of Christ in her girlhood, and her name appears on the first roll of the Western Reserve Eclectric Institute (later Hiram College), when under the principalship of the sainted A. S. Hayden the school first threw open its doors. Her father Wm. Richards was a member of the committee sent out by the churches to choose a site for the school. She was a constant reader of the Christian Standard from its first number and never swerved from her earlier religious principles, though denied the privilege of meeting with brethren of the same faith for many years. The loss by death of her two children and her husband (who died in 1901), and her lonely life, told strongly upon her rugged constitution, and in her last years she was but the wreck of her former self, and death came as a sweet release from sorrow and weakness and pain. To those who knew her in her prime the contrast was so great that all who loved her could only hope that the Lord would soon call her to that place where sorrow and sickness and weakness and pain could not follow her. On Tuesday, Sept. 7th loving hands laid her remains away in the beautiful cemetery at Burr Oak where, at rest beside father, husband and children she awaits the call of her Savior to life and immortality. Of her seven brothers and sisters, five remain two, Sent. Newton Richards of Dennison, Iowa, and Mrs. Mark Richards Wheeler of Pittsburg, Kansas, having preceded her to the better world. Funeral services were held at the home conducted by Rev. Utton of Harmony who also read the impressive burial service at the grave, which was beautifully lined with ferns and flowers, a mass of flowers also covering the entire casket.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows she was born August 21, 1828. It also shows her husband’s name as George.

Burr Oak Cemetery
 

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