MRS. HARVEY H. MASDEN
Anna S. Mosher, daughter of Alonzo and Martha Mosher was born Dec. 12, 1863 near Salem, la., and departed this life Jan. 10, 1929 at her home in Big Wells, Texas. She was the eldest daughter in a family if ten children. She had a birthright membership in the Friends church. After leaving Salem she united with the M. E. church in which she was a faithful worker as long as her health would permit. She was a successful teacher for a number of years and a graduate from the Teachers Institute at Mt. Pleasant, Ia.

She was united in marriage to Harvey H. Masden April 17, 1890. They lived near Salem, Ia. until 1905 when they moved to Ft. Madison, la. where they lived for 15 years; then they moved to Big Wells where they have resided for the last five years.

She had been in delicate health for some time and contracted a cold which developed rapidly into pneumonia, from which her frail body could not resist, and although everything was done that loving hands could do, she passed peacefully away to the great beyond.

She leaves to mourn their loss her, husband and two children, Anna Lucile Masden, a teacher in the Mission schools for colored at Memphis, Tenn., and Harold L. Masden of Big Wells, Texas, two grandchildren, Harold La Mar and Billee Ruth Masden; three brothers and six sisters, Ephraim R.Mosher, Amos Mosher. and Ruth Mosher of La Garita, Colo.; Mrs. Elizabeth Forsyth of Beatrice, Neb.; Mrs. Maria Watts of Yates Center, Kansas; James J. Mosher, Mrs. Eva Barton, Mrs. Clara Barton of Salem, Ia.; Mrs. Mary Didavou of Yarmouth, Iowa., besides ocher relatives and a host of friends.

A short but impressive service was held Friday morning in the Methodist church at Big Wells. The schools and business houses were closed and the church was filled to overflowing by those who came to pay their last respects to the departed one.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, sayeth the spirit, that they may rest from their labor; and their works do follow them.