Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1914 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Margaret Catherine Fletcher was born at Blue Grass Grove, 111., June 12, 1856, and died at Rensselaer, Indiana, Sept. 1, 1914, aged 58 years, 2 months and 20 days. She was one of ten children born to John and Sarah Fletcher; of this number six have died, tour sisters and two brothers; tour are living, Lewis M. Fletcher, Chicago; HJKrs. Emma Townsley, Horse Butte,Yf"D., Mrs. T. F. Clark, Battle Ground, Ind., and Mrs. Anna Heath, Oxford, Ind. The deceased moved to Oxford, Ind., and was married there to George B. Colvert, Dee. 24, 1874. From Oxford she moved to Fowler, Ind., and then to Frankfort, Ind. In the year 1894 she came to Rensselaer, where shl has lived ever since. There were born to her two sons, Clinton 0., born Nov. 15, 1875, and Leo G, bom July 15, 1893. The husband and father departed this life Nov. 18, 1910, leaving the mother to the tender care of the rt>ns. For years the deceased was an active member of the Relief Corps and the Ladies’ Industrial Society of the MethodiSt church. For several years she had been in poor health and the last year began to fail, being for the last three months kept In bed most of the time. (Mrs. Catherine Fletcher Colvert was a loving mother, true friend and kind neighbor. She was ever ready to help the needy and relieve the sick. Her faith was firm in all the doctrines of the Christian religion. She believed in God as her Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ as her personal saviovs, and looked to the Holy Bible as the revealed word of God. The spirit of the departed one has taken Its flight home to heaven, there to meet the loved ones that have gone before.— Friend.

Tell me, my secret soul, O, tell me, Hope of Faith, Is there no resting place From sorrow, sun and death. Is there no happy spot Where mortals may be blessed, Where grief may And a balm And weariness a rest. Faith, Hope and Love, Best boons to mortals given, Waved their bright wings and t shouted: “Yes, Eternal Rest, in Heaven.”