Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1886 — Death of Grandmother Willey [ARTICLE]

Death of Grandmother Willey

.. _ T" — Mrs. Morena Willey, the agect mother of Mr, Joseph H. Willy, the merchant of this place, died suddenly at the home of her daughter Mrs. George Sigler, at Mount Ayr, last Thursday evening. She had beeij' taken from- that place to Rensselaer, only the Tuesday before. Her health was as good as usuaFup to the very hour of her death, though she had long been sufi'ering \vith a heart trouble. She went to bed Tiiursday night; feeling wed and. ohoer* ful, but a short time after awoke Mrs. Sigler with a severe fit of coughing and vomiting. Mr. Sigler hastily went after a physician, but before he could return the aged lady expired in a violent paroxysm of coughing. The remains were brought to this place for burial; the funeralbeing held last Saturday forenoon, at the building of the Church of God, of which organization she was a member. The Rev. David Handley, of the M. E. church, preaching the sermon. The follo'wing brief sketch jof Mrs. Willey’s life written by a member of her family; was read during the services: “Mrs. Morena Willey was born in Cayuga county, New York, March 9th, 1811. Her parents moved to Summit county, Ohio, in 1820, when she was 9 years old. In the year 1829, when she was 18 years of age she mar ried Jose ph VVilley, and in the fall of 1834 moved with her husband and family to Elkhart county, Ind, and in the spring following, 1835, settled in Porter county, Ind., then an almost trackless wilderness. Here she lived with her husband until the messenger of death entered the household in 1858, and removed her companion from her side; since : which time she has liyed with her children. Early in their married | life, she and her husband were ' converted and joined the M. E. | church, with which she remained i a member until 1868, when she I united herself with the Church of ; God, at Rensselaer, Ind., in which i her faith was stayed until the hour; of death, which came Oct. 28t1i,: 1886 in her 76th year. Eleven I children were born unto them,! eight of whom, with thei*r children and their children’s children, with ; many other who knew her best, 1 etill live to mourn her death. Few like gray Jia rs, except on -other ; persons. If your hair is turning gray, i restore it to Ihe Line of youth by using i Ay er’s Hair Vigor. Country people will find No. 4 • Copy books cheap at the posf-of-' tic ! Country people who want school • books will find bargains at the post ; office. ; MONEY! money—W. H. H. I Graham loans money in sums of SBOO and upwards, on long time, at low interest. | : ' —*x- •&• «*- "WilWy. A Sigler''.SSMlfctKlliK' lefid with bargains in Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots,Shoes, Carpeting <tc. Willey & Sigler, i Wanted. —Improved and unimproved lands in Jasper and adjoining counties, to trade for lands in western and central Kansas.

E. G. WARREN.