Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Elvira Webster was bom in the state of New York, Jan. 29, 1809; was married to James Reeve, Feb. 14,1829.-- There were born to them eleven children of whom six survive her. One son, Gaylord Wallace, now living in Kenwood, N. Y.; one in South Elliot,* Maine, Samuel Hawkins: one, Asaph C., in Holdfege, Nob., and two, Nathaniel Willis and William Webster, in Rensselaer; also one daughter, Mrs Evaline Talbot, living in Syracuse, Neb. She furnished three sons to serve their country in the civil war, the youngest of whom died in the service. About the year 1870 she became obedient to the gospel call to the inheritance of God’s kingdom and the life eternal, uniting with the Church of God at Rensselaer. She never wavered in faith or devoted service, and always manifested that kindness of spirit and patience in trial to a degree seldom attained by the most earnest followers of the meek and lowly One. She quietly, peacefully, andin the most gentle manner passed into the sleep of death on the 3d day of March, 1900, after an illness rs four days, much lamented, not alone by family and relatives, but by all aeqaintnnees. She now sleeps awaiting the summons to a part in the first resurrection, on whom the second death will have no power. Funeral services were held at the church of God by the pastor. *