Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Mrs. Joe Jackson Died Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Joe Jackson Died Saturday.

Nora Marlatt was born Jan. 23, 1874; departed this life July 27, 1912, at 2 p. m. She was born on her father’s. farm in Barkley tp., where her brother John now resides. She united with the Barkley M. E. church when about 18 years of age and remained a true Christian up till her Her bible was her best friend, and when she was able to do so she was always reading His blessed promises. She was united in marriage to Joseph Jackson April 17, 1898. To this union w>s born one daughter, Glidys, age 13. In the fall of 1908 her health began to fail and she was taken to Las Vegas, New Mex., nd later to Longmont, Cblo., where she derived some benefit, but in June, 1911, she began to fail again and! was brought back to her old home in Rensselaer, where she has been confined to her home all the time and most of the time to her bed. > Ske has suffered night and day for over a year without complaining, and always met her friends with a smile. Even up to within thirty minutes ~of her death she smiled at those around her bed,

and talked /up to within five minutes of the end. In her death we lose a true Christian, a faithful wife and a loving ,mother. She leaves a husband, one daughter, father, step-mother, two brothers, J. W. and Isaac 8., . and three sisters, Mrs. Milton Roth, Mrs. W. H. Mackey of Rensselaer, and Mrs. C. O. Swift of Evanston, 111., also two half-sisters, Mrs. Mary Barber of Bondbill, 111., and Mrs. Isaac Hooker of Las Vegas, N. M., and a host of friends to mourn her departure.