Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Priscilla Smith, daughter of Daniel and Martha Smith, was born in Ohio Dec. 27, 1839, and with her parents came to Indiana in 1848. She united with the church at the age of 16 years, and lived a faithful and devoted Christian life until death. On Oct. 4, 1866, she was united in to John Humes, in Wabash county, Ind., and came to Jasper county, Indiana, that same winter, settling seven miles north of Rensselaer, in which neighborhood she resided until death. Her husband and three children preceding her to the farther shore. To them were born seven children. Those living are Mary L. Osborne, John W. Humes and Helen M. Lewis, of Rensselaer, Ind., and Pearl Hayes, of Burke, South Dakota. Mra Humes had been in poor health since early last spring and during the latter part of the summer went to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Osborne, in Rensselaer, that she might be near her physician, where she died at 2 a. m., Oct 9, 1908, aged 68 years, 10 months and 12 days. She was conscious to within about an hour of her decease.

Being of a cheerful disposition, her home was a panacea for discouragement Her confidence in God and her sympathetic disposition made her home a real asylum to the anxious and careworn. A true wife, a tender mother and obliging neighbor and a true Christian, all will realize keenly their loss. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. Byrd, of Rossville, 111., assisted by Rev. H. L. Kindig, of Rensselaer, Ind., at the Brushwood U. B. church, of which she had for many years been a member. Interment was made in Prater cemetery by the side of her husband. ♦