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Subject: OBITUARY - MRS. MARTHA A. MCCROSKEY

Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:01 AM

Decatur County Journal

December 30, l887

DIED--December l5, l887, near Decatur City, Iowa, MRS. MARTHA A.

MCCROSKEY, and was buried at the Decatur City Cemetery on the l6th.

MRS. MCCROSKEY's maiden name was WEAVER. She was born in Indiana,

December 7, l842, and came to Decatur City with her father, MR. GEORGE

WEAVER, in l859, and was united in marriage with MR. SAMUEL MCCROSKEY,

June 26, l862. She was the mother of six children, the first one died

when but two years old. Five are still living.

Her sickness that resulted in death was of nine weeks continuance which

she was enabled to bear with patience and resignation, believing from

the first that she would not recover. She therefore set herself to

prepare for the future by prayerful reading of the Bible, the eighth

chapter of Romans being very precious to her. It proved a revelation to

her heart of the rich provision of the Gospel, even the forgiveness of

sin and the witness of the Holy Spirit, not the spirit of bondage again

to fear, but the spirit of adoption whereby she was able to cry, Abba,

Father, and to believe that all things work together for good to them

that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose,

which purpose is that the child of God should be conformed to the judge

of the Son of God, so that as God spared not his own Son but delievered

him up for us all, how shall he not with him so freely give us all

things, so that we may with confidence ask who or what shall seperate us

from the love of Christ either as to our love to him or his love to us.

This was the blessed experience of SISTER MCCROSKEY, she realized that

her end was near but she had no fear but abounded in a joyful hope and

trust having often read that wonderful chapter, and when not able to

read it, had her daughter to read it to her and requested that it should

be read at her funeral, which was done by the writer in the church in

Decatur.

SISTER MCCROSKEY was a good neighbor, a kind and affectionate wife and

mother. A very large number of friends and neighbors followed her to

her resting place; and MR. MCCROSKEY and family desire to express their

thanks to the kind neighbors and friends for their assistance and

sympathy during the long sickness and the burial of MRS. MCCROSKEY.

THOMAS WALLER

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