Many hearts will be saddened by the news of the death of Mrs. J. D. Mitchell, thought it was not an unexpected event. Five years since she suffered from a severe paralytic stroke which brought her very near to death's door. She recovered, however, so as to be up and around, but had two light paralytic strokes at intervals and several quite severe seasons of sickness. For some time after her husband's death, she kept house with her son Robert and daughter Anne. Not long after the marriage of the latter, she broke up housekeeping and made her home with her married children, who always had a warm welcome and an easy chair for "Mother." At the time of her death, she was make her home with her daughter, Anne, Mrs. Frank Foster.
Monday evening, Oct. 13th, she was taken with a severe chill resulting from a cold and soon developing into pneumonia. Sunday morning she had another stroke of paralysis and about eleven o'clock passed peacefully away. The funeral was held at the residence of F. H. Foster, Tuesday morning at half past nine o'clock, Elder J. I. Gunn officiating. The remains were taken to the graveyard near the Brick schoolhouse on Walnut prairie and laid beside those of her husband.
Elizabeth H. Welsh was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, Aug. 2, 1826. In 1831 her parents moved to Illinois and settled on Walnut Prairie near Prevo's Landing. Here she grew to womanhood, sharing in all the hardships and trials incident to the days of the early pioneer. Dec. 8, 1849, she became the bride of Dr. J. D. Mitchell, then located at Darwin and engaged in the practice of medicine. They began housekeeping in Darwin, but later moved to the farm a short distance south of that village, where they continued to live till 1874, when they moved to Terre Haute, where they remained till 1887, when failing health compelled the Doctor to discontinue active practice and they returned to the farm. In 1895 the family moved to Marshall, which was the last change to residence made.
Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her. The are J. A. Mitchell of Warren, Ind., W. S. of South Bend, Ind., Dr. O. well known as one of our most successful physicians, John W. and Mrs. Samuel Prevo of Walnut Prairie, Mrs. Chas. Paddock of Terre Haute, Robert, and Mrs. F. H. Foster of Marshall. All were present at the funeral and her five sons and one grandson, John Prevo, acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Mitchell was a woman of superior culture for the times in which her early life was passed, having the advantages of academic training at Bardstown, Ky., and Paris, Ill., which she improved with great diligence. She was in the fullest sense of the word a helpmeet to her noble husband.
Early in life she united with the Presbyterian church and in all her husband's faithful labors for church and Sunday School, she stood nobly by his side and unfalteringly held up his hands.
She possessed a happy faculty of winning and keeping the affection of the young, to whom she was always a faithful and wise counselor.
As wife, mother, friend or neighbor, she was never found wanting in those admirable qualities that go to make up pure and noble womanhood, the crowing excellence of all womanly character.
Source: Clark County Herald (Marshall, IL) 23 November 1899, p. 5
Married John Doak Mitchell on December 7, 1847 in Clark County, Illinois.
Monday evening, Oct. 13th, she was taken with a severe chill resulting from a cold and soon developing into pneumonia. Sunday morning she had another stroke of paralysis and about eleven o'clock passed peacefully away. The funeral was held at the residence of F. H. Foster, Tuesday morning at half past nine o'clock, Elder J. I. Gunn officiating. The remains were taken to the graveyard near the Brick schoolhouse on Walnut prairie and laid beside those of her husband.
Elizabeth H. Welsh was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, Aug. 2, 1826. In 1831 her parents moved to Illinois and settled on Walnut Prairie near Prevo's Landing. Here she grew to womanhood, sharing in all the hardships and trials incident to the days of the early pioneer. Dec. 8, 1849, she became the bride of Dr. J. D. Mitchell, then located at Darwin and engaged in the practice of medicine. They began housekeeping in Darwin, but later moved to the farm a short distance south of that village, where they continued to live till 1874, when they moved to Terre Haute, where they remained till 1887, when failing health compelled the Doctor to discontinue active practice and they returned to the farm. In 1895 the family moved to Marshall, which was the last change to residence made.
Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her. The are J. A. Mitchell of Warren, Ind., W. S. of South Bend, Ind., Dr. O. well known as one of our most successful physicians, John W. and Mrs. Samuel Prevo of Walnut Prairie, Mrs. Chas. Paddock of Terre Haute, Robert, and Mrs. F. H. Foster of Marshall. All were present at the funeral and her five sons and one grandson, John Prevo, acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Mitchell was a woman of superior culture for the times in which her early life was passed, having the advantages of academic training at Bardstown, Ky., and Paris, Ill., which she improved with great diligence. She was in the fullest sense of the word a helpmeet to her noble husband.
Early in life she united with the Presbyterian church and in all her husband's faithful labors for church and Sunday School, she stood nobly by his side and unfalteringly held up his hands.
She possessed a happy faculty of winning and keeping the affection of the young, to whom she was always a faithful and wise counselor.
As wife, mother, friend or neighbor, she was never found wanting in those admirable qualities that go to make up pure and noble womanhood, the crowing excellence of all womanly character.
Source: Clark County Herald (Marshall, IL) 23 November 1899, p. 5
Married John Doak Mitchell on December 7, 1847 in Clark County, Illinois.
Many hearts will be saddened by the news of the death of Mrs. J. D. Mitchell, thought it was not an unexpected event. Five years since she suffered from a severe paralytic stroke which brought her very near to death's door. She recovered, however, so as to be up and around, but had two light paralytic strokes at intervals and several quite severe seasons of sickness. For some time after her husband's death, she kept house with her son Robert and daughter Anne. Not long after the marriage of the latter, she broke up housekeeping and made her home with her married children, who always had a warm welcome and an easy chair for "Mother." At the time of her death, she was make her home with her daughter, Anne, Mrs. Frank Foster.
Monday evening, Oct. 13th, she was taken with a severe chill resulting from a cold and soon developing into pneumonia. Sunday morning she had another stroke of paralysis and about eleven o'clock passed peacefully away. The funeral was held at the residence of F. H. Foster, Tuesday morning at half past nine o'clock, Elder J. I. Gunn officiating. The remains were taken to the graveyard near the Brick schoolhouse on Walnut prairie and laid beside those of her husband.
Elizabeth H. Welsh was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, Aug. 2, 1826. In 1831 her parents moved to Illinois and settled on Walnut Prairie near Prevo's Landing. Here she grew to womanhood, sharing in all the hardships and trials incident to the days of the early pioneer. Dec. 8, 1849, she became the bride of Dr. J. D. Mitchell, then located at Darwin and engaged in the practice of medicine. They began housekeeping in Darwin, but later moved to the farm a short distance south of that village, where they continued to live till 1874, when they moved to Terre Haute, where they remained till 1887, when failing health compelled the Doctor to discontinue active practice and they returned to the farm. In 1895 the family moved to Marshall, which was the last change to residence made.
Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her. The are J. A. Mitchell of Warren, Ind., W. S. of South Bend, Ind., Dr. O. well known as one of our most successful physicians, John W. and Mrs. Samuel Prevo of Walnut Prairie, Mrs. Chas. Paddock of Terre Haute, Robert, and Mrs. F. H. Foster of Marshall. All were present at the funeral and her five sons and one grandson, John Prevo, acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Mitchell was a woman of superior culture for the times in which her early life was passed, having the advantages of academic training at Bardstown, Ky., and Paris, Ill., which she improved with great diligence. She was in the fullest sense of the word a helpmeet to her noble husband.
Early in life she united with the Presbyterian church and in all her husband's faithful labors for church and Sunday School, she stood nobly by his side and unfalteringly held up his hands.
She possessed a happy faculty of winning and keeping the affection of the young, to whom she was always a faithful and wise counselor.
As wife, mother, friend or neighbor, she was never found wanting in those admirable qualities that go to make up pure and noble womanhood, the crowing excellence of all womanly character.
Source: Clark County Herald (Marshall, IL) 23 November 1899, p. 5
Married John Doak Mitchell on December 7, 1847 in Clark County, Illinois.
Monday evening, Oct. 13th, she was taken with a severe chill resulting from a cold and soon developing into pneumonia. Sunday morning she had another stroke of paralysis and about eleven o'clock passed peacefully away. The funeral was held at the residence of F. H. Foster, Tuesday morning at half past nine o'clock, Elder J. I. Gunn officiating. The remains were taken to the graveyard near the Brick schoolhouse on Walnut prairie and laid beside those of her husband.
Elizabeth H. Welsh was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, Aug. 2, 1826. In 1831 her parents moved to Illinois and settled on Walnut Prairie near Prevo's Landing. Here she grew to womanhood, sharing in all the hardships and trials incident to the days of the early pioneer. Dec. 8, 1849, she became the bride of Dr. J. D. Mitchell, then located at Darwin and engaged in the practice of medicine. They began housekeeping in Darwin, but later moved to the farm a short distance south of that village, where they continued to live till 1874, when they moved to Terre Haute, where they remained till 1887, when failing health compelled the Doctor to discontinue active practice and they returned to the farm. In 1895 the family moved to Marshall, which was the last change to residence made.
Mrs. Mitchell was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her. The are J. A. Mitchell of Warren, Ind., W. S. of South Bend, Ind., Dr. O. well known as one of our most successful physicians, John W. and Mrs. Samuel Prevo of Walnut Prairie, Mrs. Chas. Paddock of Terre Haute, Robert, and Mrs. F. H. Foster of Marshall. All were present at the funeral and her five sons and one grandson, John Prevo, acted as pallbearers.
Mrs. Mitchell was a woman of superior culture for the times in which her early life was passed, having the advantages of academic training at Bardstown, Ky., and Paris, Ill., which she improved with great diligence. She was in the fullest sense of the word a helpmeet to her noble husband.
Early in life she united with the Presbyterian church and in all her husband's faithful labors for church and Sunday School, she stood nobly by his side and unfalteringly held up his hands.
She possessed a happy faculty of winning and keeping the affection of the young, to whom she was always a faithful and wise counselor.
As wife, mother, friend or neighbor, she was never found wanting in those admirable qualities that go to make up pure and noble womanhood, the crowing excellence of all womanly character.
Source: Clark County Herald (Marshall, IL) 23 November 1899, p. 5
Married John Doak Mitchell on December 7, 1847 in Clark County, Illinois.
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