Obituaries

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[Harbour, Dorothy Margaret Motley]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday January 17, 1974 p. 5

Last Rites Held January 10 For Mrs. Wayne Harbour

Funeral services for Mrs. Wayne (Dorothy Margaret) Harbour, 71, of Bedford, held January 10 at the First Presbyterian Church in Bedford, were conducted by Rev. Ray McCain. Mrs. Harbour died January 8, 1974 at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, Mo. Interment was at Greenfield Cemetery, Greenfield, Ia.

Dorothy Motley Harbour was the daughter of Katherine Lincoln Motley and Robert Lee Motley. She was born October 1, 1902 in Bowling Green, Missouri.

She graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. and attended Iowa State University at Ames, Iowa. She taught school in Montana for one year and was a Director of Plays for Frederick Ingram Productions of Rock Island, Ill.

In 1926 she was married to Francis Wayne Harbour of Greenfield, Iowa on March 27. The Harbours lived in Greenfield for a number of years before coming to Bedford to live in 1928.

Mrs. Harbour was active in civic, educational and church organizations and devoted many hours as a volunteer for the American Red Cross. She will be remembered for her many community activities, including plays and pageants frequently produced for her church and the public schools.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Katherine Lou Harbour, in 1935.

She is survived by her husband, Wayne Harbour, of Bedford; her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wayne Harbour, of Ashland, Mo.; two granddaughters, Linda Lou and Cynthia; two grandsons, Robert Joseph Harbour and William Roy Harbour; one sister, Mrs. Joseph Burcham, of St. Louis.

[Fitch, Mary Helen Richardson]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday April 25, 1940 p. 5

Mrs. J. Ashley Fitch, Former Resident Dies

Mrs. John Ashley Fitch, a former resident of the Bedford community, died at the home of her son in Leonia, New Jersey, March 26, 1940. Burial was at Leonia.

Mary Helen Richardson was born Oct. 18, 1863 at Harvard, Ill., and received her higher education at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Ill.

She was married Sept. 24, 1889 at Hopkins, Mo., to the Rev. J. Ashley Fitch and they sailed the following month for China for missionary service under the Presbyterian Board. Except for the first year, spent in language study in Tengchow, Mrs. Fitch’s entire service of forty-one years was given to the Wei Hsien Station of the Shantung Mission.

While her children were young Mrs. Fitch taught them and other foreign children in her home, and, in addition, gave time to the schools of the Station and the women’s meetings.

In 1907 she took charge of the Women’s Bible Institute, to which school she devoted most of her time until her retirement. She was its principal for many years and, even after relinquishing this leadership, she continued to teach there.

She was able to reach the hearts of many through her Sunday school classes for women, and her presence at evangelistic meetings held by her husband was the signal for more earnest attendance by the women. Where there was illness in the home, foreign or Chinese, there you would find Mrs. Fitch. She interested herself in all the problems of Chinese women, and in a quiet, unobtrusive way, did much to encourage many of the women in this conservative city to unbind their feet.

In 1930, Dr. and Mrs. J. Ashley Fitch, after forty-one years of active and devoted service, were honorably released by the Board. Returning to America, they made their home with their son Hugh. During these years they continued their deep interest in the cause to which they had given their lives. She is survived by her husband and one son.

Mr. and Mrs. Fitch both suffered a stroke about three years ago and Mr. Fitch continues in very poor health. He is a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. [abez] H.[untingdon] Fitch [Sarah Elizabeth Hawley] of Bedford and is a brother of Mrs. L. [ester] L. [oren] O’Dell [Emma May] of northwest of Bedford. There is also another brother, Arthur [May] Fitch, of Pomona, Calif.

[Fitch, John Ashley]

Taylor County Herald

Thursday October 2, 1941 [p. 1]

Rev. Ashley Fitch Dies In New Jersey

The Rev. [John] Ashley Fitch, about 80, a member of the first class to be graduated from Bedford High School, died Tuesday at the home of his son, Hugh, in Leonia, N. J.

A missionary to China for over 40 years, the Rev. Mr. Ashley was a member of the Presbyterian Church. He returned to the United States about 1932 and for the past four years has been living with his son. He last visited in Bedford about four years ago.

Survivors are a son, Hugh; his brother, Arthur, of Pomona, Calif., and his sister, Mrs. Lester O’Dell [Emma May] of Bedford. He was preceded in death in 1940 by his wife, the former [Mary] Helen Richardson, whom he married in 1889.

Rites will be in Leonia with interment in the Leonia cemetery.

[Fitch, John Ashley]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday November 20, 1941 p. 3

Commit Ashes of Late J. A. Fitch

The ashes of the late Rev. J. [ohn] Ashley Fitch and those of his wife were placed in the Graceland cemetery Tuesday afternoon, the committal service being read by Rev. Stanley Schlick of the Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Fitch, who was honorably retired from active service in the Shantung Mission on November 15, 1930, died Sept. 26, 1941 at the home of his son, Hugh R. [ichardson] Fitch in Leonia, New Jersey. He had been in failing health for several years and had passed his eightieth birthday anniversary on July 29, 1941.

John Ashley Fitch was born July 29, 1861, at Sheldon, Vermont. In his early youth, the family left the East for the Middle West. John Ashley was educated in the schools of Iowa, Parsons College and McCormick Theological Seminary, having been graduated from the former in 1886 and the latter in 1889. On one of his later furloughs, he was honored with the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Appointed a missionary of the Presbyterian Board, Feb. 18, 1889, Mr. Fitch was married to Mary Helen Richardson on Sept. 24 of that year and they sailed for China on Oct. 17, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Fitch spent their first year in China in language study at Tengchow, Shantung; following that, their assignment for their entire period of missionary service was to the Wei Hsien Station of the Shantung Mission.

During his period of service, Dr. Fitch passed through the many conflicts and upheavals in China’s national life and according to his letters and reports to the Board of Missions, he always showed a keen insight and missionary faith, and that whatever the circumstances he should carry on. He was rugged of character and his Christian faith was unfaltering, which helped him to carry on, where others might have faltered.

[Fitch, John Ashley] [Fitch, Mary Helen Richardson]

Taylor County Herald

Thursday November 20, 1941 p. 5

Commitment Rites For Missionaries

A double commitment service for the ashes of the late J. [ohn] Ashley Fitch and his wife [Mary Helen Richardson], formerly of Bedford, was held Tuesday in the Graceland cemetery.

Mr. Fitch, who had served approximately a half-century as a missionary to China, died in September. His wife preceded him in death by some time.

Urns were sent to Bedford where the Rev. Stanley Schlick was in charge of the commitment.

[Meredith, Rose Cordelia Landis]

Bedford Free Press

Thursday August 4, 1910 p. 4

Obituary

Mrs. Wm. [Harvey] Meredith died at the home of her father, S. [amuel] S. Landis, in Blockton, Monday evening, and funeral services were held in Gravity yesterday afternoon, after which the remains were interred in the Gravity cemetery, where the mother and brother of deceased are buried.

Mrs. Meredith [Rose Cordelia Landis] has for some time been a sufferer from tuberculosis, and in the early spring was taken by her husband to Colorado, hoping the climate might aid in the treatment of the disease. No benefit was shown from the change and they returned to Blockton about a month ago, where she remained until death came to her relief.

[Meredith, William Harvey “Billy”]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday March 5, 1942 p. 4

Obituary

William Harvey Meredith

William Harvey Meredith was born in Taylor County, Iowa, August 31, 1881, and died in St. Luke’s Hospital at Denver, Colorado, February 16, 1942, at the age of 60 years, 5 months and 18 days.

He went to Scottsbluff, Nebraska in 1906 and in that same year was married to Rosa Landes, who died August 1, 1910, leaving her husband and two sons, Kenneth Marvin Meredith, now First Lieutenant in the United States Signal Corps, stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, and Harold Samuel Meredith, who died October 8, 1913. In 1912, he married Florence [Phoebe Chatfield] Kensinger, and to this union were born two children, Delbert [Charles] of Salmon, Idaho; and Mrs. Lula [Rose] Pettey of Omak, Washington. He came to Washington County, Colorado about 1910 and for a period of three decades, as a business man, rancher, farmer and public official, he contributed unstintingly, of his time, energy and ability to the up building of this county.

As a rancher and farmer he knew and underwent the experiences and hardships of those who seek to wrest a living from the soil, and his sympathy and kindly understanding went to them. Because of this, in 1931, he was honored by them, in being elected sheriff of his county and reelected for three consecutive terms. As sheriff he conceived it, not only his primary duty to preserve and protect the peace and well being of the people of the county, but where ever consistent with his duty, to aid those less fortunate, who had erred in their ways. During the eight years he served in this capacity, there was less crime in the county than at any other like period of its history. Although small of stature physically, his courage was unbounded. During the days of happiness as well as despondency, when in good health or sick in bed, he maintained a calm, sincere outlook on the facts of life. The years will roll along, the snows of winter will be succeeded by the heat of summer; old acquaintances and old friends will depart or take the long journey on which he has set forth. New faces will come to Washington County, and others will seek to wrest a living from the soil. Gradually memories will dim but when the history of this county is written, when the tale of struggles and privation of those who helped make this community and this county is told, there will loom large in these annals, the name of him whom we all affectionately esteem as, "Billy Meredith". To the thousands that knew him, he was a kindly counselor and advisor, a loyal and true friend, a loving father and a good and faithful public servant. He lived justly; he walked humbly in the sight of God and did good for his fellowmen. Less, he would not do; more, no man could do. Funeral services were held Saturday in the Gravity Christian Church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Ben W. Sinderson and burial was in the Gravity cemetery.

[Landes, Effie Jane]

Bedford Free Press

Thursday February 15, 1900 [p. 1]

In Memory of Effie Landes

Died, at the home of her parents six miles north of Gravity, Miss Effie Jane Landes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. [amuel] S. Landes [Hannah Stonestreet]. Effie was 32 years, 1 month and 14 days old. She was born in Miami County, Indiana, December 19, 1868, where she lived until six years ago, when she moved with her parents to Conway, Iowa, where they resided until October, 1899, when they moved north of Gravity, where they resided at the time of her death. Effie was converted at the age of seventeen and has lived a devoted Christian---her last words being “sweet rest.” Funeral services were held in the Christian church, at Gravity, conducted by Rev. Murphy. His words were sincere and sympathizing. He spoke of the eternal life. Effie was loved by all who knew her. She leaves father, mother, three brothers and four sisters, besides a host of friends, to mourn her loss. But what is our loss is heaven’s gain.

Is Effie dead? No, she’s gone before;

Her sweet life left this sinful shore;

She heard above the roaring sea

The loving words “come unto me.”

Yes, suffer them to come;

Oh! Hear the Savior’s words;

And still He gladly welcomes in,

Each Christian now so free from sin.

Thank God the Christian boon

Is lasting joy beyond the tomb;

Your precious jewel---lent, not given,

You’ll find some day on the shores of

heaven.

Our parents, bowed so low in grief,

How vain seem words to bring relief;

But His can calm life’s troubled sea,

Who hushed the storm on Galilee.

Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Landes

[Bonsteel, Almira “Mira” Watson]

Iowa South-West

Saturday February 3, 1877 p. 3

Died

Bonsteel----At her residence in Jackson Township, January 22d, 1877, of lung disease, Mrs. Almira [Watson] Bonsteel, wife of Laurence Bonsteel, deceased aged 25 years, 8 months and 23 days.

Mrs. B. was born in Montour Co., Pennsylvania, and removed from there to Illinois in her youth, thence to Bedford, Iowa, where she made her home with Mr. R. Rogers, until five years before her death, when she was united to Mr. B. in marriage. Her life has been such as to win a large circle of friends, who most deeply sympathize with her bereaved husband. That fatal monster, consumption, has been growing little by little for some time, but did not bring its victim under medical care until within the last year. During this time, she, with her friends, have been hoping and fearing; yet she has borne all with meekness, being willing to give up the world with its enticements with a hope beyond the grave. And as that lifeless form was being hidden in the cold earth, and the mellowed voice of friends echoed the words: “She is going down the valley, the death dark valley, we’ll see her face never more, till we pass down the valley, the deep dark valley and meet her on the other shore,” our heart was made sad for the two motherless children, and the bereaved husband who could scarcely realize that the loved one now Sleepeth under the cypress tree. May we all feel that we, too, are nearing the tomb, not with discomfort, but with joy and gladness. Thanks are extended to neighbors for their unbounded kindness toward the family. J. M. M.

[Bonsteel, Sarah Ann “Sally” Downing]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday April 25, 1946 [p. 1]

Mrs. Sally Bonsteel Dies In Kansas

Mrs. Sally [Sarah Ann Downing] Bonsteel, 91, died at her home in Green Leaf, Kansas Monday, April 15. Funeral services were held there and the body was brought to the Forest Grove cemetery Sunday, where short graveside services were held, conducted by Rev. W. A. Purdy. Mrs. Bonsteel was an aunt of Mrs. Mary McMillin, who came from Clarinda for the last rites.

[Coon, Helen Cobb Coon]

Bedford Free Press

Thursday December 14, 1911 p. 7

Obituary

Died at her home in West Bedford Monday, December 11^th, 1911, Helen [May] Coon, whose maiden name was Cobb, aged 67 years, 6 months and 21 days. Deceased was born in Parke County, Indiana. Her parents removed to the territory of Iowa when deceased was less than 2 years of age and in 1855 again removed to Taylor County where she grew to womanhood. She was married in 1868 to Isaac N. [ewton] Coon, and to this union were born three children, two sons and a daughter; one son and the daughter died in infancy. Isaac B. [enton] Coon, the other son, surviving her.

Her first husband died in 1875. She was remarried in 1877 to John W. [alker] Coon, her surviving companion. To this union three children were born, one son and two daughters, Oscar, who died at the age of four years, Clara B. and Cassie E. Clara died last February, which leaves her husband, two sons and one daughter, three brothers and two sisters to mourn her loss.

Deceased made a public profession of her faith in Christ and obeyed the Gospel, uniting with the Church of Christ in 1859 and at the time of her death she, with her companion, two sons and daughter, were members of the Berea congregation of the Church of Christ.

Funeral services were conducted at the family home today at 10 o’clock a. m., conducted by R. C. Yaden, of Stanberry, Mo., after which the remains were laid to rest in the Bedford cemetery.

[Cobb, Thomas Benton]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday July 3, 1941 [p. 1]

Benton Cobb, 85, Dies On June 30

Benton Cobb, 85, a resident of Bedford for many years, died at the home of his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Houck of West Plains, Mo., Monday, June 30.

The body was brought to Bedford and the funeral services were held at the Walker & Shum Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Ben W. Sinderson. Burial was in the Bedford cemetery.

Mr. Cobb had been in declining health for several years and was taken to the home of his daughter last July, where he had since resided.

Thomas Benton Cobb, son of Thomas and Elizabeth [Ann Lambert] Cobb, was born near Bedford, Taylor County, Iowa, April 25, 1856.

On August 14, 1879, he was married to Deida Ann Starks. To this union were born four children: Dora, who is now Mrs. Arthur Houck of West Plains, Mo.; Lawrence A. [lvin] Cobb, who passed away in 1932; Hattie, who is Mrs. Clay Trumbo of Bedford; and Orval [Edgar] Cobb of Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Cobb died in March 1940.

Surviving with the three children are nine grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.

In early life he united with the Church of Christ and for many years held membership with the Berea congregation.

[Cobb, Aden D.]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday December 27, 1951 [p. 1]

Aden Cobb Dies In Montana

Aden [D.] Cobb, 69, former resident of Bedford, died in a hospital at Polson, Mont., Dec. 19. He had been ill with heart trouble for some time and had been a patient in the hospital 24 days prior to his death.

He is survived by his wife and a son Tommie; also by two sons by a former marriage, James Cobb of Seattle, Wash., and Richard Cobb of Philadelphia, Penn. There are two sisters, Mrs. C. [harles] A. [lexander] Dorr [Nellie Frances] and Mrs. L. [ouis] W. [esley] Spencer [Alice], both of Bedford.

Mr. Cobb was serving as county clerk and recorder, a combined office in Montana, at the time of his death.

[Cobb, Orval Edgar]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday April 23, 1970 [p. 1]

Orville Cobb Rites Held Here Today

Funeral services for Orville [Orval] Cobb of Creston, formerly of Bedford, will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here. Mr. Cobb died in a Creston hospital. Interment will be at New Hope Cemetery.

[Cobb, Orval Edgar]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday April 30, 1970 p. 7

Orval E. Cobb, 81, Rites April 23

Funeral services for Orval E. Cobb, 81, of Creston, held April 23 at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here, were conducted by Carl Cummings. Mr. Cobb died April 19 in Creston. Interment was at New Hope Cemetery, Hopkins, Mo.

Orval Edgar Cobb, son of [Thomas] Benton and Anna [Deida Ann] Stark Cobb, was born at Bedford, Iowa, October 9, 1889.

In 1913 he was united in marriage to Marguerite Murphy and to them was born one son, Dale.

As a young man he was employed by the C. B. & Q Railroad Co. at Creston, Ia. Later, he moved to Lady Smith, Wisc., where he farmed for several years. He returned to Bedford later, where he established a car painting business.

Forty years ago he and his family moved to Greenwich, Conn. He was associated with his brother-in-law, Roy Murphy, in [a] radio installation and repair business. In later years he was an estate gardener until his retirement.

His wife, Marguerite, died in May 1968 at Greenwich, Conn., and a few months later he moved to Viola, Arkansas where he remained until illness caused him to return to Creston, Iowa, where he entered the Crest Haven Nursing Home and remained there until he died.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and one sister.

He is survived by his son, Dale Cobb of San Mateo, Calif., granddaughter, Celia Cobb of the same address; one sister, Mrs. Clay (Hattie) Trumbo of Huntington Park, Calif.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Roy Murphy of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Mrs. H. Orlen Shearer of Creston, Iowa; several nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Orval was very fond of the out-doors. His favorite recreation was hunting and fishing. While a resident of Wisconsin he enjoyed hunting bear and deer. His one desire was to move to Arkansas in his later years where he could spend his retirement close to nature. He enjoyed raising vegetables and beautiful flowers, and during his year in Arkansas he set out many bulbs, bushes and trees.

[Rankin, Lewis Linn]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday July 3, 1941 [p. 1]

Mrs. Skinner’s Brother Dies

[Lewis] Linn Rankin, a brother of Mrs. Herbert G. [rey] Skinner [Grace Rankin] of Bedford, died at his home in Los Angeles, Calif., Sunday [June 29th]. Burial was made there. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons.

[Delles, Phillip John “Phil”]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday April 30, 1970 p. 4

Phil Delles, 74, Rites Held In Bedford Monday

Funeral services for Phillip John Delles, 74, of Bedford, were held Mon. April 27, at Shum-Novinger Funeral Home here with Father Reginald Maslinski officiating. Mr. Delles died April 25 at Veterans Hospital in Des Moines following years of ill health and suffering. Interment was at Rose Hill, Blockton.

Phillip J. [ohn] Delles, son of Michael and Sarah [Bannon] Delles, was born near Conway, Ia., on November 27, 1895, and resided in Taylor County most of his life. He served 18 months in the army in World War I.

In his earlier years he farmed near Conway and moved to Bedford in 1942. He will be well remembered in the community through his service with the Post Office Department and the year spent as local police officer.

On August 24, 1935 he was married to Inez L. [eona Johnson] Wheeler of Blockton, Iowa. He was a generous and loving husband and stepfather to four children and always was willing to help where needed.

He is survived by his wife, Inez; stepchildren, Orvis Wheeler, Bedford; Mrs. Darold (Gwelda) Cooper, Loveland, Colo.; Mrs. Dean (Iva) Hunter, Chariton, Ia.; and Mrs. Gordon (Irma) Hill, Bedford; a daughter-in-law; three sons-in-law; nine grandchildren; four great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Joe (Helen) King, Cumming, Ia.; a brother, Paul Delles, of Norwalk, Iowa, and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father and a younger brother, Carl [Michael].

[Delles, Phillip John “Phil”]

Bedford Times-Press

May 7, 1970 p. 2

Attend Rites Here For Phillip Delles

Included among those here for the funeral services of Phillip J. [ohn] Delles, April 27, were Mr. and Mrs. Darold Cooper and Nancy, Loveland, Colo.; Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hunter, Chris and Tim, Chariton, Ia.; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Johnson, Daleville, Ind.; and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hill and Kristi, Boulder, Colo.

[Lucas, Mollie Patience Hine]

Bedford Free Press

Thursday May 28, 1896 [p. 1]

Laid To Rest

The funeral of Mrs. Mollie Lucas (colored) took place from the family residence at two o’clock Friday afternoon conducted by Rev. J. C. Lewis, assisted by two colored clergymen whose names we did not learn.

Miss Mollie Patience Hine was born in Kentucky, Aug. 7, 1856; was married to Chas. Lucas, and in 1874 the family moved to Bedford, Iowa. She was 39 years, 10 months and 29 days old. A husband and 6 children mourn her loss. She was a member of the Baptist church.

[Flick, Amanda King]

Taylor County Republican

Thursday April 13, 1882 p. 4

Called Hence.

“She Is Not Dead, But Sleepeth.”

Died, on Monday evening, the 10^th inst., at her residence in this city, Mrs. Amanda Flick, wife of Hon. James P. [atton] Flick, aged 35 years, 11 months and 7 days, of congestion of the brain.

Mrs. Flick was born on the 3d day of May 1846, in Lee County, Iowa, and was the daughter of John and Sarah [Hankins] King. Her parents removed to Taylor County twenty-seven years ago, where they lived until their death, the mother having been dead about ten years and Mr. King dying about two years ago. The family consisted of the subject of this brief memoir and five brothers and two sisters, namely M. [artin] V. King, John A. [llen] King, G. [eorge] W. King, James W. King, N. [athan] D. King, Mrs. S. [imon] B. Hickenlooper [Ann Eliza] and Mrs. [Lucian] H. Page [Elizabeth]. Of the brothers and sisters, all survive except N. [athan] D. King, who was killed at the battle of Missionary Ridge and of the survivors, all reside in Taylor County except James W. King, who lives in Kansas.

On the 31^st of October, 1865, the deceased was married to Hon. James P. [atton] Flick, now District Attorney of the Third Judicial District, then a young soldier boy just returned from the war and having barely emerged from his ‘teens. Their marriage was an exceptionally happy one and has been blessed with an interesting family of six children, four girls and two boys, the oldest being fifteen years of age and the youngest three.

“Death,” it is said, “loves a shining mark,” and the truth of the poet’s reflection is exemplified in the death of Mrs. Flick, by whose loss the community has been bereaved of one of its brightest jewels----“A perfect woman, nobly planned.” Although graceful and self-possessed in society, it was not the brilliant but often illusive graces of society, which shed their effulgence over her character and rendered it so truly admirable. It was in the domestic circle that her life was brightest and here it was that she revealed all those purer, truer womanly gifts and graces by which wives and mothers who rule their homes by love, transform even the homeliest hearth stone and the simplest surroundings into earth’s fairest kingdom. It was as the affectionate and devoted wife, as a mother, gentle, tender and true, and as a kind and unaffected friend that the life of the deceased shed light and warmth and happiness upon those within the circle of its influence. Loving her home life and its loved ones with absorbing devotion, all her energies were directed to the task of rendering it the dearest spot on earth. She had married very young and most happily, and about the event there lingers the memory of a tale of love and fidelity which must render her loss now, all the keener and more bitter, and which causes the sympathies of all who are familiar with it to go out in fullest measure to the bereaved ones. May the Comforter who alone can heal such sorrow be with them now, and may they learn to say

“Oh, Father! with thy peace my spirit fill;

Help me to say, submissive to Thy will,

‘Thou doest all things well.’”

Very early in life the thoughts of the deceased were turned Heavenward, and she united with the Methodist Episcopal church. In this spiritual connection she lived and in it she died, her hope growing brighter and her faith clearer as death approached, until as the end grew nigh the pearly gates seemed almost to stand ajar and permit to her fading vision a glimpse of the glories within. Of her last moments it may be said,

“Blessed are the dead who, dying in the Lord,

Rest from their labors.” That sweet rest be thine!

Rest in the promise of His gracious word;

Rise in the likeness of the life divine.

The funeral service took place yesterday at one o’clock p. m., at the M. E. church in this city, the sacred edifice being crowded to its utmost capacity. The interior of the church was beautifully decorated with flowers and the services were of a most solemn and impressive character, beginning with the lesson, “I am the resurrection and the life,” by the pastor. The Rev. Mr. Taylor then read the hymn, “Forever With the Lord,” which was beautifully and touchingly rendered by the choir, and after prayer by Rev. R. A. McKinley, Rev. W. D. Bennett, the pastor, delivered the funeral sermon, a brief but most impressive discourse worthy of the sad and solemn occasion. The remains were then borne to their last resting place in the Bedford Cemetery, followed by a very large number of sorrowing friends.