Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1911 — Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Wenrick Brown. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Wenrick Brown.

Elizabeth Nf, Wenrlck was born in Mifflin county, Penn., in 1849, and died rot cancer of the stomach at the. home of x ber father, John Weprick, of n ear Wheatfield, . Ipd,,. Nqv, X 4, 191 L aged sixty-two years, four months and 'six 'dsysJgH emigrated with her parents to Ohio In early childhood and in 18C8, to Jasper county, where she resided until the end came. She was converted and united with the M. E. church In 18^5, and"remained a faithful member for a number of years, when she transferred her membership to the U. B. church, She lived a devoted Christian life. She loVed her Bible above everything else and after she was stricken down with illness her Bible was her companion as, long as she was able to read. She has been a great sufferer flic4>ast uuee* mtriths but she bore her suffering with much patience and many times said she was read?' to go home, and. anxiously awaited the call of her Savior. She was oftlmes heard to praise God during her illness and spent much time in prayer. She was joined in marriage to James Brown in 1890, who proceeded her to the great beyond. She was an affectionate companion, a kind mother and a loving daughter and sister. As the river flows by the force of gravity on its course to the sea, so has she ever kept her face turned faithfully to the duties of life, stopping here and there to -irrigate the heart of her friend or fellow pilgrim by her life of unselfishness and love She leaves to mourn their loss, a father, two sisters and four brothers, namely:..Miss Katie Wenrlck, of near Wheatfield; Mrs. Ellen Cooper, of Virgie; Noah and William J. of Jasper county; J. F., of Halliday, N. D.; and James W. of Ree Hights, S. D. Also three stepchildren, Mrs Violet Dennis, of Chicago, Mrs. Viola Malchow, of Chalmers, and Walter Brown, of Cedar Rapids, lowa, and a host of friends and other relatives. The funeral was conducted Nov. 16, 1911, from the M. E. church of Wheatfield. by Rev. Mcßrayer, of Wheatfield. Interment in Wheatfield cemetery.