Mercy Ellen Ripley was the daughter of Nahum Ripley and Polly (Carter) Ripley. Polly Carter was born February 28, 1803, in Penobscot, Maine; married Nahum Ripley on March 20, 1821; and died in Montville, Maine, on July 15, 1838. Nahum and Polly’s son John C. Ripley was born on July 15, 1838, so it is likely Polly died in childbirth. Polly was the daughter of Thomas Carter and Joanna Perkins.Mercy Ellen Ripley was born in Center Montville, Maine, December 8th, 1831, and died at her home near Glendale January 10th [1902]. When twenty years of age Miss Ripley came to this county [Jefferson] as a teacher. She is remembered as a most conscientious and successful worker, and had she not married would have been employed by Rev. Launcelot G. Bell in the young ladies’ seminary in Fairfield.
She was married to Reuben Toothaker April 23rd, 1854, and from the day of her marriage until her death lived on the farm that her young husband had prepared for her home.
Mrs. Toothaker was converted in Maine. With others she organized the Lockridge Free Baptist Church, and was the last of the charter members. A day or two before her death she was asked with regard to her hope for a future life, and replied when a girl she had received the pardon of sin in believing in Jesus, had lived in His faith and had no fear for the future.
Two sons, Rev. A. R. Toothaker, pastor of the Lockridge Church, and Mark E. Toothaker, railroad agent at Middletown, and one daughter Miss Victoria Toothaker, remain to mourn the great loss they have sustained. Joseph Ripley, Stillwell, Illinois, a brother and the last remaining of a large family, attended the funeral. Mrs. Toothaker had been almost an invalid for more than twenty years, and for many months before her death had been shut in the house.
The funeral services were held at Lockridge, conducted by Rev. E. Tibbets of Ft. Madison, assisted by Rev. C. Cochran, and, cold as the day was, the large church was so full that many had to stand. Interment was made in the Lockridge Cemetery. Perhaps a score of orphan and homeless children found, at different times, a mother in Mrs. Toothaker and a home with her and her family, so that it was becoming that the community, as one person, joined in mourning her death.
-- Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger, January 15, 1902, page 3.
She was married to Reuben Toothaker April 23rd, 1854, and from the day of her marriage until her death lived on the farm that her young husband had prepared for her home.
Mrs. Toothaker was converted in Maine. With others she organized the Lockridge Free Baptist Church, and was the last of the charter members. A day or two before her death she was asked with regard to her hope for a future life, and replied when a girl she had received the pardon of sin in believing in Jesus, had lived in His faith and had no fear for the future.
Two sons, Rev. A. R. Toothaker, pastor of the Lockridge Church, and Mark E. Toothaker, railroad agent at Middletown, and one daughter Miss Victoria Toothaker, remain to mourn the great loss they have sustained. Joseph Ripley, Stillwell, Illinois, a brother and the last remaining of a large family, attended the funeral. Mrs. Toothaker had been almost an invalid for more than twenty years, and for many months before her death had been shut in the house.
The funeral services were held at Lockridge, conducted by Rev. E. Tibbets of Ft. Madison, assisted by Rev. C. Cochran, and, cold as the day was, the large church was so full that many had to stand. Interment was made in the Lockridge Cemetery. Perhaps a score of orphan and homeless children found, at different times, a mother in Mrs. Toothaker and a home with her and her family, so that it was becoming that the community, as one person, joined in mourning her death.
-- Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger, January 15, 1902, page 3.
Mercy Ellen Ripley was the daughter of Nahum Ripley and Polly (Carter) Ripley. Polly Carter was born February 28, 1803, in Penobscot, Maine; married Nahum Ripley on March 20, 1821; and died in Montville, Maine, on July 15, 1838. Nahum and Polly’s son John C. Ripley was born on July 15, 1838, so it is likely Polly died in childbirth. Polly was the daughter of Thomas Carter and Joanna Perkins.Mercy Ellen Ripley was born in Center Montville, Maine, December 8th, 1831, and died at her home near Glendale January 10th [1902]. When twenty years of age Miss Ripley came to this county [Jefferson] as a teacher. She is remembered as a most conscientious and successful worker, and had she not married would have been employed by Rev. Launcelot G. Bell in the young ladies’ seminary in Fairfield.
She was married to Reuben Toothaker April 23rd, 1854, and from the day of her marriage until her death lived on the farm that her young husband had prepared for her home.
Mrs. Toothaker was converted in Maine. With others she organized the Lockridge Free Baptist Church, and was the last of the charter members. A day or two before her death she was asked with regard to her hope for a future life, and replied when a girl she had received the pardon of sin in believing in Jesus, had lived in His faith and had no fear for the future.
Two sons, Rev. A. R. Toothaker, pastor of the Lockridge Church, and Mark E. Toothaker, railroad agent at Middletown, and one daughter Miss Victoria Toothaker, remain to mourn the great loss they have sustained. Joseph Ripley, Stillwell, Illinois, a brother and the last remaining of a large family, attended the funeral. Mrs. Toothaker had been almost an invalid for more than twenty years, and for many months before her death had been shut in the house.
The funeral services were held at Lockridge, conducted by Rev. E. Tibbets of Ft. Madison, assisted by Rev. C. Cochran, and, cold as the day was, the large church was so full that many had to stand. Interment was made in the Lockridge Cemetery. Perhaps a score of orphan and homeless children found, at different times, a mother in Mrs. Toothaker and a home with her and her family, so that it was becoming that the community, as one person, joined in mourning her death.
-- Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger, January 15, 1902, page 3.
She was married to Reuben Toothaker April 23rd, 1854, and from the day of her marriage until her death lived on the farm that her young husband had prepared for her home.
Mrs. Toothaker was converted in Maine. With others she organized the Lockridge Free Baptist Church, and was the last of the charter members. A day or two before her death she was asked with regard to her hope for a future life, and replied when a girl she had received the pardon of sin in believing in Jesus, had lived in His faith and had no fear for the future.
Two sons, Rev. A. R. Toothaker, pastor of the Lockridge Church, and Mark E. Toothaker, railroad agent at Middletown, and one daughter Miss Victoria Toothaker, remain to mourn the great loss they have sustained. Joseph Ripley, Stillwell, Illinois, a brother and the last remaining of a large family, attended the funeral. Mrs. Toothaker had been almost an invalid for more than twenty years, and for many months before her death had been shut in the house.
The funeral services were held at Lockridge, conducted by Rev. E. Tibbets of Ft. Madison, assisted by Rev. C. Cochran, and, cold as the day was, the large church was so full that many had to stand. Interment was made in the Lockridge Cemetery. Perhaps a score of orphan and homeless children found, at different times, a mother in Mrs. Toothaker and a home with her and her family, so that it was becoming that the community, as one person, joined in mourning her death.
-- Fairfield (Iowa) Ledger, January 15, 1902, page 3.
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