MUSCATINE COUNTY IOWA REGISTER OF OLD SETTLERS BOOK ONE

Source: REGISTER OF OLD SETTLERS , BOOK One, page 90 & 93
submitted by Ronna Thuman, November 14, 2007

MRS. REBECCA S. MILLER

MONDAY, March 15, 1880, by pulmonary trouble, after an illness of several months, MRS. REBECCA S. MILLER, wife of William H. Miller. Funeral to-morrow at 10 o’clock from the residence on the slough road, four miles from the city. Obituary notice hereafter.

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Old Settlers’ Meeting.

The meeting of Old Settlers, called for the of taking such action as should seem proper in view of the recent decease of Andrew J. Fimple, and to make arrangements for the funeral tomorrow, was called to order by the President, D. C. Richman, at nine o’clock this morning. The Secretary of the society being absent, Wm. H. Woodward was appointed to take the minutes of the meeting.

Remarks highly eulogistic of the character and intrinsic worth of the deceased were made by D. C. Richman, Joseph Bridgman, Suel Foster, J. Scott Richman, John Mahin and Marx Block. A committee consisting of Joseph Bridgman, Henry Funck and A. M. Winn was appointed to express the sense of the Old Settlers of Muscatine county in view of the death of A. J. Fimple and the same committee was requested to draft fitting resolutions regarding Mrs. Rebecca S. Miller, lately deceased.

It was understood that the members of the society will meet at the house of Mr. Fimple at 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon and go out to the cemetery. The following is a list of the pall bearers: Jos. Bridgman, Jos. Bennett, Suel Foster, Peter Jackson, M. M. Berkshire, D. C. Richman, Alex. Jackson. Adjourned

WM. H. WOODWARD, Sec’y pro tem.

MR. ANDREW J. FIMPLE.

Toll! Toll the bell! The spirit of Andrew J. Fimple has winged its flight, and we are soon to carry to its last resting place its earthly tabernacle. One who has so often trod with us, and so lately, too, the pathway to the “Cit of the dead,” shall walk with us no more. The order to “close ranks” has scarcely died away ere it is repeated, for another of our number has fallen in the arch of life.
p> We need not call to mind the many virtues of our departed friend, and tell them to the world, for his unswerving honesty, his strict integrity his love of truth, all bore daily evidence of that truism, that “An honest man is the noblest work of God.” Therefore
p> Resolved, That while we, as “Old Settlers,” mourn his departure, we will now cherish in our memories that many endearing qualities of his long and not uneventful life among us, and extend to his bereaved family our warmest and heart-felt sympathy in this their great loss and crushing affliction, and would with sweet words of sorrow bind up their bleeding hearts.

MRS. REBECCA S. MILLER.

“A Mother in Israel has fallen.” As the years are told off, by the flight of time, we are called upon to tarry for a brief hour and pay the last tribute of respect, as Abraham did to Sara, the mother of God’s chosen people, and “bury our dead out of sight.” Therefore.

Resolved, That in the death of Mrs. W. H. Miller, her neighbors have lost a considerate friend, her relatives a kind, loving sister, her husband and children a most devoted wife and mother, and that we, as old settlers, extend to them all our heart-felt sympathy in this their irreparable loss—a loss to them, but to her a heavenly gain.

J. BRIDGMAN,

H. FUNCK

A. M. WINN.

Committee.

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