The Franklin Republican
Friday, April 12, 1889
Volume 45, Number 15, page 8, column 3
Stone’s Crossing,– Mrs. Charity Hughs of Iowa, formerly of this county, died last Saturday a week, aged sixty-eight years.
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The Franklin Republican, Friday, June 7, 1889, Volume 45, Number 23, page 1, column 5
Finally at Rest.
The following notice of the death of Mrs. Charity Hughes is taken from the Centerville Republican of Iowa.
Mrs. Hughes was a sister of J. M. St. John, of this city, and is well known in this county. Her friends and acquaintances will be interested in the following testimony:
“OBITUARY. – Charity Hughes was born August 8th, 1820 in Hamilton county, Ohio, and died in Centerville, Iowa, March 23d 1889, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and fifteen days. Her maiden name was St. John. She removed with her father’s family to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1826. Her parents were strict Presbyterians of the Old School, and in this faith, while a girl living in Hamilton county Ohio, at Pleasant Ridge, she was reared under the ministration of the celebrated Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher, who, while serving as President of Lane Theological Seminary, also preached at Pleasant Ridge. When they moved to Indiana, there being no Presbyterian church accessible, and her older sister having married a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, she and her sister united with this church in 1837, nearly fifty-two years ago. On November 19th, 1848, she was married to John Hughes, to whom for nearly forty-six years she has been a faithful, devoted, loving helpmate, and now precedes him to the better world, waiting that blessed reunion of which she confidently spoke in her last hours.
To this union there came six children – four sons and two daughters. One son was slain in battle, and one daughter died in infancy. Three sons and one daughter, whose highest pleasure has been the tender care they have been able to render to their mother in these closing days of her life, survive to know the bitterness of a mother's loss.
In 1855, she came with her husband and children to Appanoose county, Iowa, where she has continued to live these last years in Centerville, until called to her eternal home.
For more than forty-five years her health has been frail, but she had no severe malady until this last sickness, which smote her one week ago last Thursday. From the first it became evident that this sickness was unto death; that it was but the culmination of years of that insidious disease consumption, that had been sapping her life. The loving hands of husband, children and friends did all they could to stay death's approach but all in vain, and just as the clock struck ten on Saturday night her weary body gave up the struggle and her soul winged it's flight to God.
During these last days, she spoke freely, when questioned about her approaching end. When I asked her if she was trusting in Jesus, she said, “Oh yes! And that she had been for years.” On the day of her death I repeated the question and her answer was even more positive as to her confident expectation of a blessed entrance into eternal life. To those about her she spoke with joy of meeting the dear ones in heaven. When death came it was but the laying down the weary load of life to take up the bliss and blessedness of Heaven. E. L. S.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
Friday, April 12, 1889
Volume 45, Number 15, page 8, column 3
Stone’s Crossing,– Mrs. Charity Hughs of Iowa, formerly of this county, died last Saturday a week, aged sixty-eight years.
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The Franklin Republican, Friday, June 7, 1889, Volume 45, Number 23, page 1, column 5
Finally at Rest.
The following notice of the death of Mrs. Charity Hughes is taken from the Centerville Republican of Iowa.
Mrs. Hughes was a sister of J. M. St. John, of this city, and is well known in this county. Her friends and acquaintances will be interested in the following testimony:
“OBITUARY. – Charity Hughes was born August 8th, 1820 in Hamilton county, Ohio, and died in Centerville, Iowa, March 23d 1889, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and fifteen days. Her maiden name was St. John. She removed with her father’s family to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1826. Her parents were strict Presbyterians of the Old School, and in this faith, while a girl living in Hamilton county Ohio, at Pleasant Ridge, she was reared under the ministration of the celebrated Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher, who, while serving as President of Lane Theological Seminary, also preached at Pleasant Ridge. When they moved to Indiana, there being no Presbyterian church accessible, and her older sister having married a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, she and her sister united with this church in 1837, nearly fifty-two years ago. On November 19th, 1848, she was married to John Hughes, to whom for nearly forty-six years she has been a faithful, devoted, loving helpmate, and now precedes him to the better world, waiting that blessed reunion of which she confidently spoke in her last hours.
To this union there came six children – four sons and two daughters. One son was slain in battle, and one daughter died in infancy. Three sons and one daughter, whose highest pleasure has been the tender care they have been able to render to their mother in these closing days of her life, survive to know the bitterness of a mother's loss.
In 1855, she came with her husband and children to Appanoose county, Iowa, where she has continued to live these last years in Centerville, until called to her eternal home.
For more than forty-five years her health has been frail, but she had no severe malady until this last sickness, which smote her one week ago last Thursday. From the first it became evident that this sickness was unto death; that it was but the culmination of years of that insidious disease consumption, that had been sapping her life. The loving hands of husband, children and friends did all they could to stay death's approach but all in vain, and just as the clock struck ten on Saturday night her weary body gave up the struggle and her soul winged it's flight to God.
During these last days, she spoke freely, when questioned about her approaching end. When I asked her if she was trusting in Jesus, she said, “Oh yes! And that she had been for years.” On the day of her death I repeated the question and her answer was even more positive as to her confident expectation of a blessed entrance into eternal life. To those about her she spoke with joy of meeting the dear ones in heaven. When death came it was but the laying down the weary load of life to take up the bliss and blessedness of Heaven. E. L. S.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
The Franklin Republican
Friday, April 12, 1889
Volume 45, Number 15, page 8, column 3
Stone’s Crossing,– Mrs. Charity Hughs of Iowa, formerly of this county, died last Saturday a week, aged sixty-eight years.
__________________________________________________________
The Franklin Republican, Friday, June 7, 1889, Volume 45, Number 23, page 1, column 5
Finally at Rest.
The following notice of the death of Mrs. Charity Hughes is taken from the Centerville Republican of Iowa.
Mrs. Hughes was a sister of J. M. St. John, of this city, and is well known in this county. Her friends and acquaintances will be interested in the following testimony:
“OBITUARY. – Charity Hughes was born August 8th, 1820 in Hamilton county, Ohio, and died in Centerville, Iowa, March 23d 1889, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and fifteen days. Her maiden name was St. John. She removed with her father’s family to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1826. Her parents were strict Presbyterians of the Old School, and in this faith, while a girl living in Hamilton county Ohio, at Pleasant Ridge, she was reared under the ministration of the celebrated Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher, who, while serving as President of Lane Theological Seminary, also preached at Pleasant Ridge. When they moved to Indiana, there being no Presbyterian church accessible, and her older sister having married a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, she and her sister united with this church in 1837, nearly fifty-two years ago. On November 19th, 1848, she was married to John Hughes, to whom for nearly forty-six years she has been a faithful, devoted, loving helpmate, and now precedes him to the better world, waiting that blessed reunion of which she confidently spoke in her last hours.
To this union there came six children – four sons and two daughters. One son was slain in battle, and one daughter died in infancy. Three sons and one daughter, whose highest pleasure has been the tender care they have been able to render to their mother in these closing days of her life, survive to know the bitterness of a mother's loss.
In 1855, she came with her husband and children to Appanoose county, Iowa, where she has continued to live these last years in Centerville, until called to her eternal home.
For more than forty-five years her health has been frail, but she had no severe malady until this last sickness, which smote her one week ago last Thursday. From the first it became evident that this sickness was unto death; that it was but the culmination of years of that insidious disease consumption, that had been sapping her life. The loving hands of husband, children and friends did all they could to stay death's approach but all in vain, and just as the clock struck ten on Saturday night her weary body gave up the struggle and her soul winged it's flight to God.
During these last days, she spoke freely, when questioned about her approaching end. When I asked her if she was trusting in Jesus, she said, “Oh yes! And that she had been for years.” On the day of her death I repeated the question and her answer was even more positive as to her confident expectation of a blessed entrance into eternal life. To those about her she spoke with joy of meeting the dear ones in heaven. When death came it was but the laying down the weary load of life to take up the bliss and blessedness of Heaven. E. L. S.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
Friday, April 12, 1889
Volume 45, Number 15, page 8, column 3
Stone’s Crossing,– Mrs. Charity Hughs of Iowa, formerly of this county, died last Saturday a week, aged sixty-eight years.
__________________________________________________________
The Franklin Republican, Friday, June 7, 1889, Volume 45, Number 23, page 1, column 5
Finally at Rest.
The following notice of the death of Mrs. Charity Hughes is taken from the Centerville Republican of Iowa.
Mrs. Hughes was a sister of J. M. St. John, of this city, and is well known in this county. Her friends and acquaintances will be interested in the following testimony:
“OBITUARY. – Charity Hughes was born August 8th, 1820 in Hamilton county, Ohio, and died in Centerville, Iowa, March 23d 1889, aged sixty-eight years, seven months and fifteen days. Her maiden name was St. John. She removed with her father’s family to Johnson county, Indiana, in 1826. Her parents were strict Presbyterians of the Old School, and in this faith, while a girl living in Hamilton county Ohio, at Pleasant Ridge, she was reared under the ministration of the celebrated Dr. Lyman Beecher, father of Henry Ward Beecher, who, while serving as President of Lane Theological Seminary, also preached at Pleasant Ridge. When they moved to Indiana, there being no Presbyterian church accessible, and her older sister having married a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, she and her sister united with this church in 1837, nearly fifty-two years ago. On November 19th, 1848, she was married to John Hughes, to whom for nearly forty-six years she has been a faithful, devoted, loving helpmate, and now precedes him to the better world, waiting that blessed reunion of which she confidently spoke in her last hours.
To this union there came six children – four sons and two daughters. One son was slain in battle, and one daughter died in infancy. Three sons and one daughter, whose highest pleasure has been the tender care they have been able to render to their mother in these closing days of her life, survive to know the bitterness of a mother's loss.
In 1855, she came with her husband and children to Appanoose county, Iowa, where she has continued to live these last years in Centerville, until called to her eternal home.
For more than forty-five years her health has been frail, but she had no severe malady until this last sickness, which smote her one week ago last Thursday. From the first it became evident that this sickness was unto death; that it was but the culmination of years of that insidious disease consumption, that had been sapping her life. The loving hands of husband, children and friends did all they could to stay death's approach but all in vain, and just as the clock struck ten on Saturday night her weary body gave up the struggle and her soul winged it's flight to God.
During these last days, she spoke freely, when questioned about her approaching end. When I asked her if she was trusting in Jesus, she said, “Oh yes! And that she had been for years.” On the day of her death I repeated the question and her answer was even more positive as to her confident expectation of a blessed entrance into eternal life. To those about her she spoke with joy of meeting the dear ones in heaven. When death came it was but the laying down the weary load of life to take up the bliss and blessedness of Heaven. E. L. S.
[Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry]
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