Indianapolis Journal - Sunday, January 16, 1887:
Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, widow of William Bradshaw, Esq., aged eighty-seven years and twenty-one days, "sweetly fell asleep in Jesus" at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J. R Hussey of North Tennessee Street in Indianapolis on January 8, 1887 at 11:15 p.m.
The years which have given the subject of this notice a crown of glory have been filled with incidents and an experience which have made a character remarkable for its quiet, unobtrusive worth, such as we do not find any to excel, and worthy for all to emulate.
She was born in Long Glade, Augusta County, Virginia. Her father, Martin L. Coyner, was of German descent and was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but removed to the valley of Virginia at an early age. Her mother, Elizabeth Rhea, was of Scottish-Irish descent, was born in North Carolina, and was a niece of Governor Rhea of that state.
The deceased was one of a large family of whom only one survives--the Rev Davis H. Coyer of Delaware County, Ohio. She was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia and was equally noted amongst her early friends and associates for her great personal beauty, her vivacity, and popularity.
She was reared in opulence, but when her husband thought best to emigrate west of the Alleghenies, she cheerfully determined to share with him the hardships of a pioneer life. In June 1836, she left the valley of Virginia with her little family and, after nine weeks of travel, made their home on the east bank of the White River in this city. That was more than fifty years ago, and all the hardships surrounding a life here at that time have been experienced by many others who yet live to testify to their rigid trials. The "puncheon floor", the unglazed windows, and the one-room cabin were, as she often expressed it, in dreadful contrast with the dear old stone mansion of her father. The hard manual labor was equally so. Yet she wrought on and planned on and with her own hands made garments for her sturdy and industrious sons, her husband having been an invalid nearly all of his life who could do but little except to advise and furnish an example of energy and great integrity for which he was so noted.
For the last quarter of a century, she has reaped the reward of those earlier privations and has been in the enjoyment of every comfort that filial affection could devise. The interregnum of hardships incident to pioneer life only served to make more prominent those noble traits of character which otherwise might have partially remained dormant.
The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and had been a member of that sect for sixty years or more. Her religion was unobtrusive in words; there was a refined modesty in all her Christian deportment which "vaunteth not, was not puffed up, or behaveth not unseemly." Her generosity was equally as unostentatious, but to give was her greatest pleasure, and from her the needy never went empty. One of her most attractive characteristics was her childlike candor and frankness; utterly void of any mask which would put to shame much of the ostentation of the present day. Mrs. Bradshaw was the mother ofz'
Captain James M. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
William A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
John A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary B. Hussey of Indianapolis, wife of Dr. J. R. Hussey
"She rests from her labors, and her works do follow her."
Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, widow of William Bradshaw, Esq., aged eighty-seven years and twenty-one days, "sweetly fell asleep in Jesus" at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J. R Hussey of North Tennessee Street in Indianapolis on January 8, 1887 at 11:15 p.m.
The years which have given the subject of this notice a crown of glory have been filled with incidents and an experience which have made a character remarkable for its quiet, unobtrusive worth, such as we do not find any to excel, and worthy for all to emulate.
She was born in Long Glade, Augusta County, Virginia. Her father, Martin L. Coyner, was of German descent and was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but removed to the valley of Virginia at an early age. Her mother, Elizabeth Rhea, was of Scottish-Irish descent, was born in North Carolina, and was a niece of Governor Rhea of that state.
The deceased was one of a large family of whom only one survives--the Rev Davis H. Coyer of Delaware County, Ohio. She was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia and was equally noted amongst her early friends and associates for her great personal beauty, her vivacity, and popularity.
She was reared in opulence, but when her husband thought best to emigrate west of the Alleghenies, she cheerfully determined to share with him the hardships of a pioneer life. In June 1836, she left the valley of Virginia with her little family and, after nine weeks of travel, made their home on the east bank of the White River in this city. That was more than fifty years ago, and all the hardships surrounding a life here at that time have been experienced by many others who yet live to testify to their rigid trials. The "puncheon floor", the unglazed windows, and the one-room cabin were, as she often expressed it, in dreadful contrast with the dear old stone mansion of her father. The hard manual labor was equally so. Yet she wrought on and planned on and with her own hands made garments for her sturdy and industrious sons, her husband having been an invalid nearly all of his life who could do but little except to advise and furnish an example of energy and great integrity for which he was so noted.
For the last quarter of a century, she has reaped the reward of those earlier privations and has been in the enjoyment of every comfort that filial affection could devise. The interregnum of hardships incident to pioneer life only served to make more prominent those noble traits of character which otherwise might have partially remained dormant.
The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and had been a member of that sect for sixty years or more. Her religion was unobtrusive in words; there was a refined modesty in all her Christian deportment which "vaunteth not, was not puffed up, or behaveth not unseemly." Her generosity was equally as unostentatious, but to give was her greatest pleasure, and from her the needy never went empty. One of her most attractive characteristics was her childlike candor and frankness; utterly void of any mask which would put to shame much of the ostentation of the present day. Mrs. Bradshaw was the mother ofz'
Captain James M. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
William A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
John A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary B. Hussey of Indianapolis, wife of Dr. J. R. Hussey
"She rests from her labors, and her works do follow her."
Indianapolis Journal - Sunday, January 16, 1887:
Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, widow of William Bradshaw, Esq., aged eighty-seven years and twenty-one days, "sweetly fell asleep in Jesus" at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J. R Hussey of North Tennessee Street in Indianapolis on January 8, 1887 at 11:15 p.m.
The years which have given the subject of this notice a crown of glory have been filled with incidents and an experience which have made a character remarkable for its quiet, unobtrusive worth, such as we do not find any to excel, and worthy for all to emulate.
She was born in Long Glade, Augusta County, Virginia. Her father, Martin L. Coyner, was of German descent and was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but removed to the valley of Virginia at an early age. Her mother, Elizabeth Rhea, was of Scottish-Irish descent, was born in North Carolina, and was a niece of Governor Rhea of that state.
The deceased was one of a large family of whom only one survives--the Rev Davis H. Coyer of Delaware County, Ohio. She was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia and was equally noted amongst her early friends and associates for her great personal beauty, her vivacity, and popularity.
She was reared in opulence, but when her husband thought best to emigrate west of the Alleghenies, she cheerfully determined to share with him the hardships of a pioneer life. In June 1836, she left the valley of Virginia with her little family and, after nine weeks of travel, made their home on the east bank of the White River in this city. That was more than fifty years ago, and all the hardships surrounding a life here at that time have been experienced by many others who yet live to testify to their rigid trials. The "puncheon floor", the unglazed windows, and the one-room cabin were, as she often expressed it, in dreadful contrast with the dear old stone mansion of her father. The hard manual labor was equally so. Yet she wrought on and planned on and with her own hands made garments for her sturdy and industrious sons, her husband having been an invalid nearly all of his life who could do but little except to advise and furnish an example of energy and great integrity for which he was so noted.
For the last quarter of a century, she has reaped the reward of those earlier privations and has been in the enjoyment of every comfort that filial affection could devise. The interregnum of hardships incident to pioneer life only served to make more prominent those noble traits of character which otherwise might have partially remained dormant.
The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and had been a member of that sect for sixty years or more. Her religion was unobtrusive in words; there was a refined modesty in all her Christian deportment which "vaunteth not, was not puffed up, or behaveth not unseemly." Her generosity was equally as unostentatious, but to give was her greatest pleasure, and from her the needy never went empty. One of her most attractive characteristics was her childlike candor and frankness; utterly void of any mask which would put to shame much of the ostentation of the present day. Mrs. Bradshaw was the mother ofz'
Captain James M. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
William A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
John A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary B. Hussey of Indianapolis, wife of Dr. J. R. Hussey
"She rests from her labors, and her works do follow her."
Mrs. Margaret Bradshaw, widow of William Bradshaw, Esq., aged eighty-seven years and twenty-one days, "sweetly fell asleep in Jesus" at the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. J. R Hussey of North Tennessee Street in Indianapolis on January 8, 1887 at 11:15 p.m.
The years which have given the subject of this notice a crown of glory have been filled with incidents and an experience which have made a character remarkable for its quiet, unobtrusive worth, such as we do not find any to excel, and worthy for all to emulate.
She was born in Long Glade, Augusta County, Virginia. Her father, Martin L. Coyner, was of German descent and was born near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, but removed to the valley of Virginia at an early age. Her mother, Elizabeth Rhea, was of Scottish-Irish descent, was born in North Carolina, and was a niece of Governor Rhea of that state.
The deceased was one of a large family of whom only one survives--the Rev Davis H. Coyer of Delaware County, Ohio. She was educated at the Augusta Female Seminary at Staunton, Virginia and was equally noted amongst her early friends and associates for her great personal beauty, her vivacity, and popularity.
She was reared in opulence, but when her husband thought best to emigrate west of the Alleghenies, she cheerfully determined to share with him the hardships of a pioneer life. In June 1836, she left the valley of Virginia with her little family and, after nine weeks of travel, made their home on the east bank of the White River in this city. That was more than fifty years ago, and all the hardships surrounding a life here at that time have been experienced by many others who yet live to testify to their rigid trials. The "puncheon floor", the unglazed windows, and the one-room cabin were, as she often expressed it, in dreadful contrast with the dear old stone mansion of her father. The hard manual labor was equally so. Yet she wrought on and planned on and with her own hands made garments for her sturdy and industrious sons, her husband having been an invalid nearly all of his life who could do but little except to advise and furnish an example of energy and great integrity for which he was so noted.
For the last quarter of a century, she has reaped the reward of those earlier privations and has been in the enjoyment of every comfort that filial affection could devise. The interregnum of hardships incident to pioneer life only served to make more prominent those noble traits of character which otherwise might have partially remained dormant.
The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis and had been a member of that sect for sixty years or more. Her religion was unobtrusive in words; there was a refined modesty in all her Christian deportment which "vaunteth not, was not puffed up, or behaveth not unseemly." Her generosity was equally as unostentatious, but to give was her greatest pleasure, and from her the needy never went empty. One of her most attractive characteristics was her childlike candor and frankness; utterly void of any mask which would put to shame much of the ostentation of the present day. Mrs. Bradshaw was the mother ofz'
Captain James M. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
William A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
John A. Bradshaw of Indianapolis
Mrs. Mary B. Hussey of Indianapolis, wife of Dr. J. R. Hussey
"She rests from her labors, and her works do follow her."
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burial: MAY 28,1887
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