Updated 7-18-2016 from member 47030676
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. John Garrison, after one week's illness from pneumonia died at her home in Nachusa, Saturday night, Jan. 25, aged 47 years.
Miranda, daughter of Jonathan DePuy of Nachusa, was born June 3, 1842 in Luzerne Co., Pa; came to Lee Co., IL. with her father's family in the spring of 1846; was married March 26, 1861, at her home in Nachusa, by Rev. Tremper, pastor of the Lutheran church of Dixon, to John Garrison, son of one of her father's nearest neighbors. The first five years of their married life was spent on her husbands farm near Paw Paw, where their two oldest children were born. They then moved to the farm which her husband still owns near her father's home. Here they lived until after the death, in 1883 of her husband's father, William Garrison, when they moved to the house built by him 34 years ago.
There, in sight of the home of her girl-hood, unexpectedly, when her friends thought her coming back to health, the subtle enemy stole her away, and before her attending physician, Dr. Hunt, could reach her bedside, she was dead. Her husband mourns the loss of a true wife, her eight children's tender mother, her aged father a kind daughter, and the community a bright cheerful member.
When we look at her youngest child, eight year old Frank, we can but think o' the poets words:
'My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son-
Wretch even then, life's journey just I begun'
Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss';
Perhaps a tear, if souls can week in bliss.
We remember in her bright young womanhood, as a youthful, happy bride going to her new hoe as a proud young mother, displaying the graces of her first born to our admiring eyes; as a mature woman bearing life's burdens patiently, and as a sister we have loved her. One county, and one township nearly has witnessed the whole of her life work; and yet could it have been done better, or more sincere tears of grief been shed over her casket had her name been known in many lands?
We expected she would yet remain with us many years, but her life work is finished. In the maturity of womanhood she has left us. Her memory as fragrant incense, will linger among those who knew and loved her as long as life.
Harriet E. Garrison
Dixon, ILL., Jan. 30th, 1890.
(Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon, IL., Tues., Feb. 4, 1890, pg. 4.)
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. John Garrison, after one week's illness from pneumonia died at her home in Nachusa, Saturday night, Jan. 25, aged 47 years.
Miranda, daughter of Jonathan DePuy of Nachusa, was born June 3, 1842 in Luzerne Co., Pa; came to Lee Co., IL. with her father's family in the spring of 1846; was married March 26, 1861, at her home in Nachusa, by Rev. Tremper, pastor of the Lutheran church of Dixon, to John Garrison, son of one of her father's nearest neighbors. The first five years of their married life was spent on her husbands farm near Paw Paw, where their two oldest children were born. They then moved to the farm which her husband still owns near her father's home. Here they lived until after the death, in 1883 of her husband's father, William Garrison, when they moved to the house built by him 34 years ago.
There, in sight of the home of her girl-hood, unexpectedly, when her friends thought her coming back to health, the subtle enemy stole her away, and before her attending physician, Dr. Hunt, could reach her bedside, she was dead. Her husband mourns the loss of a true wife, her eight children's tender mother, her aged father a kind daughter, and the community a bright cheerful member.
When we look at her youngest child, eight year old Frank, we can but think o' the poets words:
'My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son-
Wretch even then, life's journey just I begun'
Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss';
Perhaps a tear, if souls can week in bliss.
We remember in her bright young womanhood, as a youthful, happy bride going to her new hoe as a proud young mother, displaying the graces of her first born to our admiring eyes; as a mature woman bearing life's burdens patiently, and as a sister we have loved her. One county, and one township nearly has witnessed the whole of her life work; and yet could it have been done better, or more sincere tears of grief been shed over her casket had her name been known in many lands?
We expected she would yet remain with us many years, but her life work is finished. In the maturity of womanhood she has left us. Her memory as fragrant incense, will linger among those who knew and loved her as long as life.
Harriet E. Garrison
Dixon, ILL., Jan. 30th, 1890.
(Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon, IL., Tues., Feb. 4, 1890, pg. 4.)
Updated 7-18-2016 from member 47030676
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. John Garrison, after one week's illness from pneumonia died at her home in Nachusa, Saturday night, Jan. 25, aged 47 years.
Miranda, daughter of Jonathan DePuy of Nachusa, was born June 3, 1842 in Luzerne Co., Pa; came to Lee Co., IL. with her father's family in the spring of 1846; was married March 26, 1861, at her home in Nachusa, by Rev. Tremper, pastor of the Lutheran church of Dixon, to John Garrison, son of one of her father's nearest neighbors. The first five years of their married life was spent on her husbands farm near Paw Paw, where their two oldest children were born. They then moved to the farm which her husband still owns near her father's home. Here they lived until after the death, in 1883 of her husband's father, William Garrison, when they moved to the house built by him 34 years ago.
There, in sight of the home of her girl-hood, unexpectedly, when her friends thought her coming back to health, the subtle enemy stole her away, and before her attending physician, Dr. Hunt, could reach her bedside, she was dead. Her husband mourns the loss of a true wife, her eight children's tender mother, her aged father a kind daughter, and the community a bright cheerful member.
When we look at her youngest child, eight year old Frank, we can but think o' the poets words:
'My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son-
Wretch even then, life's journey just I begun'
Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss';
Perhaps a tear, if souls can week in bliss.
We remember in her bright young womanhood, as a youthful, happy bride going to her new hoe as a proud young mother, displaying the graces of her first born to our admiring eyes; as a mature woman bearing life's burdens patiently, and as a sister we have loved her. One county, and one township nearly has witnessed the whole of her life work; and yet could it have been done better, or more sincere tears of grief been shed over her casket had her name been known in many lands?
We expected she would yet remain with us many years, but her life work is finished. In the maturity of womanhood she has left us. Her memory as fragrant incense, will linger among those who knew and loved her as long as life.
Harriet E. Garrison
Dixon, ILL., Jan. 30th, 1890.
(Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon, IL., Tues., Feb. 4, 1890, pg. 4.)
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. John Garrison, after one week's illness from pneumonia died at her home in Nachusa, Saturday night, Jan. 25, aged 47 years.
Miranda, daughter of Jonathan DePuy of Nachusa, was born June 3, 1842 in Luzerne Co., Pa; came to Lee Co., IL. with her father's family in the spring of 1846; was married March 26, 1861, at her home in Nachusa, by Rev. Tremper, pastor of the Lutheran church of Dixon, to John Garrison, son of one of her father's nearest neighbors. The first five years of their married life was spent on her husbands farm near Paw Paw, where their two oldest children were born. They then moved to the farm which her husband still owns near her father's home. Here they lived until after the death, in 1883 of her husband's father, William Garrison, when they moved to the house built by him 34 years ago.
There, in sight of the home of her girl-hood, unexpectedly, when her friends thought her coming back to health, the subtle enemy stole her away, and before her attending physician, Dr. Hunt, could reach her bedside, she was dead. Her husband mourns the loss of a true wife, her eight children's tender mother, her aged father a kind daughter, and the community a bright cheerful member.
When we look at her youngest child, eight year old Frank, we can but think o' the poets words:
'My mother! when I learned that thou wast dead
Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed'
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son-
Wretch even then, life's journey just I begun'
Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss';
Perhaps a tear, if souls can week in bliss.
We remember in her bright young womanhood, as a youthful, happy bride going to her new hoe as a proud young mother, displaying the graces of her first born to our admiring eyes; as a mature woman bearing life's burdens patiently, and as a sister we have loved her. One county, and one township nearly has witnessed the whole of her life work; and yet could it have been done better, or more sincere tears of grief been shed over her casket had her name been known in many lands?
We expected she would yet remain with us many years, but her life work is finished. In the maturity of womanhood she has left us. Her memory as fragrant incense, will linger among those who knew and loved her as long as life.
Harriet E. Garrison
Dixon, ILL., Jan. 30th, 1890.
(Dixon Evening Telegraph, Dixon, IL., Tues., Feb. 4, 1890, pg. 4.)
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