Johanna (Miksch) MIDDLETON

MIDDLETON, MIKSCH, MORNIN, WEBB

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/6/2015 at 21:29:11

January 2, 1835 --- July 1, 1912

Johanna Elizabeth (Miksch) Middleton, oldest daughter of William and Anna Miksch, was born in Warwick Township on January 2, 1835. During her early childhood, her parents moved to New Philadelphia, and after a few years' residence there, came to Clay township, where she resided until her marriage to William R. Middleton, September 2, 1858. She, together with her husband, started at once for their home in Goldfield, Iowa, having to make an overland drive of one hundred miles from Des Moines. Here she spent the three years of her married life, and her two children, Ida B. and Ira H., were born, the latter surviving his father by but three months. The husband's death occurred September 14, 1861 and was a severe shock to the young wife and mother, as he had left home in his visual health, and the rupturing of a blood vessel caused his death within one-half hour of the time he had kissed wife and babies farewell. Although they had their farm home in the West, a longing for the old home and home faces, drew the widowed mother and babies back to Onadenhutten, where she made her home until her death, July 1, 1912. During infancy she was baptized and later confirmed in the Moravian Church, transferring her membership to the Methodist Episcopal denomination at the time of her marriage. Her death occurred after 17 days of sickness caused by strangulated hernia. Her sufferings were at times intense. One of the most touching incidents of her death was that while her soul was winging its flight the voice of a child came floating through the window, lifted in that sweet, comforting song, "Jesus is tenderly calling today."

The family of William G. Webb, the sister, Mrs. Ellen Mornin of Cedar Falls, Iowa and the brothers, Charles A. of Vale, S. D. and Edward F. of Simms, Montana, with hosts of relatives and friends are left to mourn her loss.

Source unknown - Tuscarawas County, Ohio
July 1912