Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1907 — OBITARY OF MRS. DAVID NOWELS [ARTICLE]

OBITARY OF MRS. DAVID NOWELS

—• i m Phoebe Ann Benjamin Now el® was born Feb. 22,1819, in Fayette County, Ohio, died Dec. 8, 1907 in Rensselaer, Ind., aged 88 years, & months and 16 days. She was next to the youngest of a family of four children. Her mother was a widow the husband dying when the subject of thin s sketch was only a child. The hardships of a frontier life was the lot of this family yet all were spared to a good old age but one. The father served his country in the war of 1812; the grandfather in the war of the Revolution. When bat a girl, Jan. 4, 1837, she confessed a hope in Christ and wae baptised into the fellowship of the Primitive Baptist church called Paint Creek in Fayette county,. Ohio, by Elder J. A Moore. With her family she removed toJasper County, Ind., in 1838, settling near“ Blue Grass”now in Newton tp. Here the pioneer life wa® continued with all the hardships of the frontier. Here also the \rsfc Primitive Baptist church in Jasper countyjwas constituted in 1839, shn with 7 others composing the aameu Her longlife fell of good'deedbv self-sacrifices and charity is a testimonial of the depth, and strength* of her religious convictions.

In the spring of 1842 March IG*. she was united in marriage te» David Nowels who survives her. For more than 65 years these two stout hearted pioneers have done their full share in subdueing the wilderness. To this union was born 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls, three of whom died in childhood. One, EzraC. Nowels dying in Lamar, Colo., aged 56 years; W. R, Nowels, of Rensselaer, Ind., C. D. Nowels of Parsons, Kansas, Mary H. Grow, Rensselaer, Ind., D. B. Nowels, Lamar, Colo., and Ida A. Randle of Mexico, Mo., who survive. Deceased also leaves 26 - grand children and 24 great grande children. This mother in Israel has gone to her reward and tho her dear old companion and her children mourn tor her yet it consoles them to know that it can be trathfnlly said of her that she has fought a good fight, finished her course and kept the faith, that there is laid up for her * cr >wn of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give her on that day.