People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

MRS. ELIZA McCOY.

Eliza Mellinger was born November 29. 1810, in Columbiana county, Qhio. When sixteen years of age, in 1826, she was married to Thomas McCoy, a young man of her own neighborhood. The union thus formed was blessed with tive children, George. Alfred, Melissa, Absolorn, Thomas. Three of the five have gone; only George and Alfred remain. The unwelcome truth is thus forced upon our thoughts that no family circle is secure against, the shafts of death. The young wife and husband established their home in the county of her nativity, where •hey shared each other’s joys and sorrows for nearly fifty years, clinging to the old home until 1*73. The fall of that year 10 longer a youthful couple, the; came to Indiana, and lived with their son. Alfred, the ensuing winter, purposing, whe hey came, to build them cottage near him the next spring.

eie to spend the remainder oi their days. Their plans failed. Ere the spring months had fairly op mod, the husband and father, released from earthly care, .•ntered upon his reward ii heaven. The devoted wife and mother so sadlv bereaved, remaitioh with the family of her son, r» - ceiving every attention that filial kindness and affect ion could suggest, to cheer . and brighten the last years of her life. On Wednesday night, Sept. 26, 104. the summons came for whi :h she had long bv n waiting, calling her away. •!’ar away btyoini th? shadow. . •' • • this weary vale of ti-ars. ■r■ tl c tide of bli is s.\» rping . :.i tae bright ar.d yiarH." S - -j was an exemplary, useful, •nil honored member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Even from her girlhood day*she has been a follower of Christ, for at least sixty or seventy years. She leaves to her children, te her grand-children, to the church, and to her many frienc - the legacy of a precious rnemon She kept the faith, she finisl - ed her course in peace; she In received her crown, the beaut ful, fadeless crown of life. The funeral services, conduc ed by her paster, Rev. R. 1•. Utter, were held at the home ( her son, Alfred McCoy, at : o’clock, Friday afternoon. Sep 28th, in the presence of a lam concourse of neighbors an friends. Her body was the laid to rest beside that of he husband in Welton cemeterv. A Friend.