Her obituary from the February 5, 1902 Martinsville Republican:
Mrs. Nancy McNeff Rooker died at her home on West Harrison Street last Saturday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. She had been in poor health for many years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M.E. Church, Revs H.S. Headen and I.N. Thompson officiating. Dr. and Mrs. A.F. Tulley of Brazil, Mrs. J.V. Mitchell of Martinsville, Thomas McNeff of Greencastle and William McNeff of Brooklyn were those from a distance who were present to attend the funeral.
From an unidentified newspaper in Plainfield or Indianapolis:
In Memoriam Nancy McNeff Rooker
We are brought to face again "the law and condition of nature, the unalterable event of Providence, and the decree of heaven. The chains that confine us to this condition are strong as destiny and immutable as the eternal laws of God." But "death is the chilliness that precedes the dawn; we shudder for the moment, the awake in the broad sunshine of the other life."
Nancy McNeff Rooker was born near Lanesville, Harrison County, Indiana, June 30, 1825. The seventy-seventh anniversary of her birth she will spend in heaven. Her parents, William and Polly McNeff, had emigrated to this place from Kentucky, but in 1829 removed to Morgan County, settling in the neighborhood of White Lick. Here they made themselves a cabin home in the woods, and went to work to open up a farm, accompanied by the usual hardships of an early pioneer life. She was the eldest of ten children, surviving all but two brothers. Her entire life from her fourth year has been spent in Mooresville and southeast vicinity.
When eighteen years of age, she was married to Samuel Moore Rooker on the 29th day of February 1844, Thomas J. Rucker, officiating clergyman. To them were given six children, three are here, three are yonder. While her husband served his country in 1862, she heroically looked after the interests of the farm and cared for the four little ones who were there.
For fifty-six years she walked the pathway of life with her husband. November 10, 1900 death visited the home and the husband and father was not, for God had taken him. From the bereaved presence of her fond family, the mother passed from her earthly to her heavenly home on February 1, 1902 shortly after 5:00 p.m. in the the presence of the King, her mission here having been fulfilled. Having wrought the will of her God, He spoke and she heard. What a joyful welcome she must have received when she reached the golden city on Saturday evening. May the children follow on to the glad meeting with father and mother. She was often not able to attend the public services of the church and it was a deprivation she sorely felt. As a Christian, she was quiet, retiring, unassuming, yet true as steel both to God and the church. Her religion found expression in deeds of kindness and upright living, rather than in profession. Quiet and never demonstrative by nature, her love for the matter was deep. What nobler tribute can we offer than that she was a loving mother, a faithful wife, a true Christian. The testimony of her children is that she never forgot her prayers, loved her Bible and neglected no duty she could perform. She has left the heritage of an example and character which her family may now cherish with fondest affection.
For many years a sufferer of the flesh, she was patient and uncomplaining, always more solicitous for the comfort and happiness of her family than for herself. She was always ready to extend a helping hand to her neighbors when sick or in need, until she was too feeble from sickness and age, which disabled her from manifesting that kind and neighborly spirit that characterized her earlier life. Her home then was the stopping place for the itinerant preacher and the presiding elder, a refuge for rest and refreshment. She was gentle, affable, holding her friends in kind and constant remembrance, loving her own household and being loved by them, a self-sacrificing mother, unostentatious, patient in tribulation, serving the Lord. The three children rise up and call her blessed. Her place in the home will be vacant, but her tender words, her kindly deeds and her righteous influence will remain, and "as love can never lose its own" her ransomed spirit will still cheer them on their way. She will be missed in the home circle, but no doubt, they promise themselves, by the grace of God, to meet her in that city that hath foundations whose maker and builder is God.
In her declining years having nearly lived out her four score, she patiently waited for the summons. Now the dear hands are folded. For the half of a century they toiled for dear ones. They have lost the shapeliness of youth but never dearer than now. It is dark on the earthward side, but there is no darkness for her.
Mrs. Nancy McNeff Rooker died at her home on West Harrison Street last Saturday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. She had been in poor health for many years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M.E. Church, Revs H.S. Headen and I.N. Thompson officiating. Dr. and Mrs. A.F. Tulley of Brazil, Mrs. J.V. Mitchell of Martinsville, Thomas McNeff of Greencastle and William McNeff of Brooklyn were those from a distance who were present to attend the funeral.
From an unidentified newspaper in Plainfield or Indianapolis:
In Memoriam Nancy McNeff Rooker
We are brought to face again "the law and condition of nature, the unalterable event of Providence, and the decree of heaven. The chains that confine us to this condition are strong as destiny and immutable as the eternal laws of God." But "death is the chilliness that precedes the dawn; we shudder for the moment, the awake in the broad sunshine of the other life."
Nancy McNeff Rooker was born near Lanesville, Harrison County, Indiana, June 30, 1825. The seventy-seventh anniversary of her birth she will spend in heaven. Her parents, William and Polly McNeff, had emigrated to this place from Kentucky, but in 1829 removed to Morgan County, settling in the neighborhood of White Lick. Here they made themselves a cabin home in the woods, and went to work to open up a farm, accompanied by the usual hardships of an early pioneer life. She was the eldest of ten children, surviving all but two brothers. Her entire life from her fourth year has been spent in Mooresville and southeast vicinity.
When eighteen years of age, she was married to Samuel Moore Rooker on the 29th day of February 1844, Thomas J. Rucker, officiating clergyman. To them were given six children, three are here, three are yonder. While her husband served his country in 1862, she heroically looked after the interests of the farm and cared for the four little ones who were there.
For fifty-six years she walked the pathway of life with her husband. November 10, 1900 death visited the home and the husband and father was not, for God had taken him. From the bereaved presence of her fond family, the mother passed from her earthly to her heavenly home on February 1, 1902 shortly after 5:00 p.m. in the the presence of the King, her mission here having been fulfilled. Having wrought the will of her God, He spoke and she heard. What a joyful welcome she must have received when she reached the golden city on Saturday evening. May the children follow on to the glad meeting with father and mother. She was often not able to attend the public services of the church and it was a deprivation she sorely felt. As a Christian, she was quiet, retiring, unassuming, yet true as steel both to God and the church. Her religion found expression in deeds of kindness and upright living, rather than in profession. Quiet and never demonstrative by nature, her love for the matter was deep. What nobler tribute can we offer than that she was a loving mother, a faithful wife, a true Christian. The testimony of her children is that she never forgot her prayers, loved her Bible and neglected no duty she could perform. She has left the heritage of an example and character which her family may now cherish with fondest affection.
For many years a sufferer of the flesh, she was patient and uncomplaining, always more solicitous for the comfort and happiness of her family than for herself. She was always ready to extend a helping hand to her neighbors when sick or in need, until she was too feeble from sickness and age, which disabled her from manifesting that kind and neighborly spirit that characterized her earlier life. Her home then was the stopping place for the itinerant preacher and the presiding elder, a refuge for rest and refreshment. She was gentle, affable, holding her friends in kind and constant remembrance, loving her own household and being loved by them, a self-sacrificing mother, unostentatious, patient in tribulation, serving the Lord. The three children rise up and call her blessed. Her place in the home will be vacant, but her tender words, her kindly deeds and her righteous influence will remain, and "as love can never lose its own" her ransomed spirit will still cheer them on their way. She will be missed in the home circle, but no doubt, they promise themselves, by the grace of God, to meet her in that city that hath foundations whose maker and builder is God.
In her declining years having nearly lived out her four score, she patiently waited for the summons. Now the dear hands are folded. For the half of a century they toiled for dear ones. They have lost the shapeliness of youth but never dearer than now. It is dark on the earthward side, but there is no darkness for her.
Her obituary from the February 5, 1902 Martinsville Republican:
Mrs. Nancy McNeff Rooker died at her home on West Harrison Street last Saturday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. She had been in poor health for many years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M.E. Church, Revs H.S. Headen and I.N. Thompson officiating. Dr. and Mrs. A.F. Tulley of Brazil, Mrs. J.V. Mitchell of Martinsville, Thomas McNeff of Greencastle and William McNeff of Brooklyn were those from a distance who were present to attend the funeral.
From an unidentified newspaper in Plainfield or Indianapolis:
In Memoriam Nancy McNeff Rooker
We are brought to face again "the law and condition of nature, the unalterable event of Providence, and the decree of heaven. The chains that confine us to this condition are strong as destiny and immutable as the eternal laws of God." But "death is the chilliness that precedes the dawn; we shudder for the moment, the awake in the broad sunshine of the other life."
Nancy McNeff Rooker was born near Lanesville, Harrison County, Indiana, June 30, 1825. The seventy-seventh anniversary of her birth she will spend in heaven. Her parents, William and Polly McNeff, had emigrated to this place from Kentucky, but in 1829 removed to Morgan County, settling in the neighborhood of White Lick. Here they made themselves a cabin home in the woods, and went to work to open up a farm, accompanied by the usual hardships of an early pioneer life. She was the eldest of ten children, surviving all but two brothers. Her entire life from her fourth year has been spent in Mooresville and southeast vicinity.
When eighteen years of age, she was married to Samuel Moore Rooker on the 29th day of February 1844, Thomas J. Rucker, officiating clergyman. To them were given six children, three are here, three are yonder. While her husband served his country in 1862, she heroically looked after the interests of the farm and cared for the four little ones who were there.
For fifty-six years she walked the pathway of life with her husband. November 10, 1900 death visited the home and the husband and father was not, for God had taken him. From the bereaved presence of her fond family, the mother passed from her earthly to her heavenly home on February 1, 1902 shortly after 5:00 p.m. in the the presence of the King, her mission here having been fulfilled. Having wrought the will of her God, He spoke and she heard. What a joyful welcome she must have received when she reached the golden city on Saturday evening. May the children follow on to the glad meeting with father and mother. She was often not able to attend the public services of the church and it was a deprivation she sorely felt. As a Christian, she was quiet, retiring, unassuming, yet true as steel both to God and the church. Her religion found expression in deeds of kindness and upright living, rather than in profession. Quiet and never demonstrative by nature, her love for the matter was deep. What nobler tribute can we offer than that she was a loving mother, a faithful wife, a true Christian. The testimony of her children is that she never forgot her prayers, loved her Bible and neglected no duty she could perform. She has left the heritage of an example and character which her family may now cherish with fondest affection.
For many years a sufferer of the flesh, she was patient and uncomplaining, always more solicitous for the comfort and happiness of her family than for herself. She was always ready to extend a helping hand to her neighbors when sick or in need, until she was too feeble from sickness and age, which disabled her from manifesting that kind and neighborly spirit that characterized her earlier life. Her home then was the stopping place for the itinerant preacher and the presiding elder, a refuge for rest and refreshment. She was gentle, affable, holding her friends in kind and constant remembrance, loving her own household and being loved by them, a self-sacrificing mother, unostentatious, patient in tribulation, serving the Lord. The three children rise up and call her blessed. Her place in the home will be vacant, but her tender words, her kindly deeds and her righteous influence will remain, and "as love can never lose its own" her ransomed spirit will still cheer them on their way. She will be missed in the home circle, but no doubt, they promise themselves, by the grace of God, to meet her in that city that hath foundations whose maker and builder is God.
In her declining years having nearly lived out her four score, she patiently waited for the summons. Now the dear hands are folded. For the half of a century they toiled for dear ones. They have lost the shapeliness of youth but never dearer than now. It is dark on the earthward side, but there is no darkness for her.
Mrs. Nancy McNeff Rooker died at her home on West Harrison Street last Saturday afternoon at about 5 o'clock. She had been in poor health for many years. The cause of death was pneumonia. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the M.E. Church, Revs H.S. Headen and I.N. Thompson officiating. Dr. and Mrs. A.F. Tulley of Brazil, Mrs. J.V. Mitchell of Martinsville, Thomas McNeff of Greencastle and William McNeff of Brooklyn were those from a distance who were present to attend the funeral.
From an unidentified newspaper in Plainfield or Indianapolis:
In Memoriam Nancy McNeff Rooker
We are brought to face again "the law and condition of nature, the unalterable event of Providence, and the decree of heaven. The chains that confine us to this condition are strong as destiny and immutable as the eternal laws of God." But "death is the chilliness that precedes the dawn; we shudder for the moment, the awake in the broad sunshine of the other life."
Nancy McNeff Rooker was born near Lanesville, Harrison County, Indiana, June 30, 1825. The seventy-seventh anniversary of her birth she will spend in heaven. Her parents, William and Polly McNeff, had emigrated to this place from Kentucky, but in 1829 removed to Morgan County, settling in the neighborhood of White Lick. Here they made themselves a cabin home in the woods, and went to work to open up a farm, accompanied by the usual hardships of an early pioneer life. She was the eldest of ten children, surviving all but two brothers. Her entire life from her fourth year has been spent in Mooresville and southeast vicinity.
When eighteen years of age, she was married to Samuel Moore Rooker on the 29th day of February 1844, Thomas J. Rucker, officiating clergyman. To them were given six children, three are here, three are yonder. While her husband served his country in 1862, she heroically looked after the interests of the farm and cared for the four little ones who were there.
For fifty-six years she walked the pathway of life with her husband. November 10, 1900 death visited the home and the husband and father was not, for God had taken him. From the bereaved presence of her fond family, the mother passed from her earthly to her heavenly home on February 1, 1902 shortly after 5:00 p.m. in the the presence of the King, her mission here having been fulfilled. Having wrought the will of her God, He spoke and she heard. What a joyful welcome she must have received when she reached the golden city on Saturday evening. May the children follow on to the glad meeting with father and mother. She was often not able to attend the public services of the church and it was a deprivation she sorely felt. As a Christian, she was quiet, retiring, unassuming, yet true as steel both to God and the church. Her religion found expression in deeds of kindness and upright living, rather than in profession. Quiet and never demonstrative by nature, her love for the matter was deep. What nobler tribute can we offer than that she was a loving mother, a faithful wife, a true Christian. The testimony of her children is that she never forgot her prayers, loved her Bible and neglected no duty she could perform. She has left the heritage of an example and character which her family may now cherish with fondest affection.
For many years a sufferer of the flesh, she was patient and uncomplaining, always more solicitous for the comfort and happiness of her family than for herself. She was always ready to extend a helping hand to her neighbors when sick or in need, until she was too feeble from sickness and age, which disabled her from manifesting that kind and neighborly spirit that characterized her earlier life. Her home then was the stopping place for the itinerant preacher and the presiding elder, a refuge for rest and refreshment. She was gentle, affable, holding her friends in kind and constant remembrance, loving her own household and being loved by them, a self-sacrificing mother, unostentatious, patient in tribulation, serving the Lord. The three children rise up and call her blessed. Her place in the home will be vacant, but her tender words, her kindly deeds and her righteous influence will remain, and "as love can never lose its own" her ransomed spirit will still cheer them on their way. She will be missed in the home circle, but no doubt, they promise themselves, by the grace of God, to meet her in that city that hath foundations whose maker and builder is God.
In her declining years having nearly lived out her four score, she patiently waited for the summons. Now the dear hands are folded. For the half of a century they toiled for dear ones. They have lost the shapeliness of youth but never dearer than now. It is dark on the earthward side, but there is no darkness for her.
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