Evaline Mirilla (Gransbury) Heath (1852-1924)

GRANSBURY, HEATH, MARTIN, ANDERSON, DORSEY, FOLLY, CHORD, HIGGINS, POWERS, GRANSBERRY

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 10/30/2007 at 22:10:07

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Apr. 5, 1923, pg. 5
LOCAL and PERSONAL

Mrs. Hi Heath is able to be up
and around again after a slight
paralytic stroke.

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Jan. 8, 1925, pg. 1
PIONEER RESIDENT
PASSED AWAY MONDAY

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MRS. HIRAM HEATH SUCCUMBS
TO STROKE. FUNERAL HELD
TUESDAY AFTERNOON

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Exira lost one of its oldest residents
Monday morning about two o'clock,
when Mrs. Hiram Heath answered the
final summons following a stroke of
paralysis last Wednesday afternoon,
the second she had suffered.

Evaline Mirilla Gransbury was born
at Poughkeepsie, New York, May 20,
1852. When she was a child her par-
ents moved west settling in Guthrie
county, later moving to Oakfield, Au-
dubon county. On March 26, 1871,
she was united in marriage to Hiram
Heath of Oakfield. To this union
seven children were born, two dying
in infancy and one daughter, Mrs.
Elizabeth Martin, died in 1908.

About forty years ago the Heath
family settled in their present home
in Exira, where they have lived con-
tinuously since. Mrs. Heath was a
great lover of flowers and many will
cherish her memory for the beautiful
flowers sent to them in time of sick-
ness. She never forgot the old sol-
diers' graves on Decoration Day.

Mrs. Heath had been a great suf-
ferer, as she had a stroke of paralysis
some years ago, and following the
second stroke on December 31 she
gradually sank away. She was 72
years, seven months and sixteen days
of age at the time of her death.

The deceased leaves to mourn her
loss the aged husband, Hiram Heath,
and four children, Henry of Exira;
Mrs. J. B. Anderson of Indiana Har-
bor, Ind.; Mrs. L. L. Dorsey of Anita,
and Mrs. Earl Folly of Atlantic. There
are also twenty-one grandchildren,
eight great grandchildren and a host
of friends.

She was a loving and faithful wife
and mother. All the children were
with her when she passed away.

Funeral services were conducted
from the home by Rev. Robert N.
Chord, Tuesday afternoon, January 6,
at 1:30 o'clock. Interment was in the
Exira cemetery.

The pall bearers were the grand-
children: Garner Heath, Clair Heath,
Frank Higgins, George Higgins, Roy
and Paul Powers.

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"The Rose in My Mother's Hair"
The twilight falls o'er the plains and rills,
The birds have ceased to sing,
And o'er the shadowed earth I hear
The distant church bells ring.
I sit and muse on the distant past,
And a vision of beauty rare
Arises before my enraptured eyes
The rose in my mother's hair.
How oft in that far away happy time,
I gathered the roses red
And lovingly twined them amid the waves,
That adorned her beautiful head.
Those dark, glossy ringlets, my childhood pride,
And her face so tender and fair--
As I think of them now I can see again
The rose in my mother's hair.
And tho' she has gone to the "Land of the blest."
Her memory will ever be dear;
And the lessons she taught me in childhood's hour,
Have guided my pathway here,
And when the last roll-call shall summon me hence
To my home in those mansions fair,
I trust she will meet me with welcoming smile
And a rose in her beautiful hair.
---Elsie Cole Wilcox.

Note: I have seen the last name spelled as Gransberry also.