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Subject: OBITUARY - EMELINE (BLAIR) MARSHALL.

Date: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:46 PM

Decatur County Journal

April l2, l900

EMELINE BLAIR was born in Cumberland County, Penn., April 9, l844 and

died of heart disease at her late home near Weldon, Iowa, April l, l900,

aged 55 years, ll months and 22 days. She was married to HENRY

MARSHALL, an IA soldier, July 4, l869, who with two children, GEORGE B.

and JESSIE A. MARSHALL are left to mourn the loss of a helpmate and a

mother. One child, PAULINE, died while yet quite young. MRS. MARSHALL

was the oldest of several children, some of which were quite young when

their mother died, consequently the care of them and their home fell

upon the young shoulders of EMMA who performed her duties as only so

young could. Although her loss was great, she never gave up the hope of

getting an education. Fortune favored her in that respect and after a

time she again took up her thread of life where she had laid it down at

her mother's death. She went to school in Leon and in Osceola. She

also taught in Leon besides many terms in the country round about. Even

after marriage, she taught many terms in her home district. She had

been the instructor of many who were in attendance at her funeral that

they might with the kindliest feeling and fondest memory, look upon her

face for the last time.

MRS. MARSHALL united with the M.E. Church about five years ago and was

faithful till the end. She was consistent in all things and never

preached what she did not practice. When the end came, she was resigned

and in this instance said: "Thy will, Oh Lord, not mine, be done." She

will be greatly missed not only in the home but in the community where

she kindly ministered to those about her. Her body was laid away in the

old family burying ground on the Blair farm not far from Smyrna.

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