Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1900 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

MRS. ELVIRA REEVE. Elvira Webster was born in the state of New York Jan. 29, 1809. Was married to James Reeve, in Ohio, Feb. 14, 1829. There were born to them 11 children, eight sons and three daughters, of whom five sons and one daughter survive her, Gaylord W., of Kenwood, N. Y ; Samuel H-, of South Elliot, Maine; Asaph C., of Holdrege, Neb.; Nathaniel W., and William W., in Rensselaer, and Mrs. Evaline Talbot, Syracuse, Nab. Her husband died in 1884. She furnished three sqns to serve their country in the civil war, the youngest of whom died in the service. About 1838 they moved to LaPorte county; and to Pulaski county, near Medaryville about 1854. Just at the close of the civil war, they came to the vicinity of Rensselaer, living on a farm, just southwest of town, living there quite a long time. Subsequently they passed a number of years in Nebraska and then a number ia Michigan, with their daughters. About the year 1870 she united with the Church of God at Rensselaer, and never wavered in faith or devoted service. She quietlypassed into the sleep of death on the 3rd day of March 1900, after an illness of four days with pneumonia, much -lamented not Alone by family and relatives, but by all acquaintances. She now sleeps awaiting the summons to “a part in the first resurrection, on whom the second death will have no power.”