Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

pioni tlic Lacrosse iKan.) Chieftain. (Republished by request.) Departed this life, on the 15th ult., at her ho«e 4 in Fair View township, Hannah Pew fell, wife of Jasper Powell, age 30 years, 2 months and .20 days. The deceased was horn in Jasper county, Indiana, and was ynarried to Jasper Powell, September 12th, 1872, to whom she proved a faithful companion .until death. For many years the deceased had been a zealous and worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Not only in daily walk, but also in her advocacy of the truth, did this Godly woman evince an intelligent zeal and a high regard for the doctrine of Christ. Tier two weeks of painful illness was borne with much patience and resignation. She often expressed her confidence in the Divine promises, and the hope of immortality. As she neared the “river* she grew happy and said she was prepared and ready to •cross over, to meet her blessed Jesus, and many loved ones gone before. She leaves a husband and two ebildren to . mourn her loss. The writer was called to speak words In memory of the departed, to her many rela. tivee and friends, who had come to pay their last tribute of respect, to her whom, they had learned to love. After the funeral services, the body was laid away in the beautiful Nichols Cemetery, there to rest till God calls it homo. Sweetly rest, thy labor’s o’er. Thy lovely form we’ll see no more; Till Jesus comes, with arms of love, And takes thee to thy home above.

D. W. NAY.