Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1902 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Lucinda M. Hammerton, wife of Elias Hammerton, was born J uly 28, 1812, and died Feb. 22nd, 1902. aged 59 years, 6 months and 24 days. She.became a member of the Christian church at the age of sixteen years, and remained a member of the same until 1860, at which time she became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church with her busband, and lived a consistent member of the same up to her death, although she hns been unable to attend church regularly fAr a number of years and especially for the past four or five years on account of failing health. But in her home she lived the life of a Christian wife and mother. She leaves to mourn her lose, a husband, nine children, four girls and-five boys, four brothers and one sister.