OBITUARY:
True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold
When he is sent to summon those we love,
But all God's angels come to us disguised.
Life is the jailer. Death the angel sent
To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free
The bolts were drawn and the spirit of Margaret A. Brown Wickersham was set free in the early morning hours of May 15, 1917. Her illness was not of long duration, but at times her suffering was intense.
Margaret Ann Brown was born August 22, 1845, and was the third child in a family of ten children in the home of Moses and Delphia Brown. This home was in the Flatrock neighborhood of Friends, east of Newcastle.
Seventy years ago the facilities for acquiring an education were limited, but with native ability and an earnest desire for the better things of life, as she grew into womanhood she gained a fund of knowledge that many with the same advantages would have mssed (sic).
Her time was largely given to home interests. When her Brother Joseph's wife died, Margaret went into the bereaved home and took upon herself the work of housekeeper and homemaker until her marriage to Jethro Wickersham, December 27, 1888. For nearly twenty-eight years she proved a devoted wife until death claimed him last September in speaking of his death recently she said "that she had been spared to care for him while he lived, and that now it seemed to her that her mission on earth was about finished." Truly the separation was not long.
One sister, Mrs. Anna Bradbury, and four brothers, Isaac, Henry, Joseph H. and Hadley, preceded her to the eternal home. One sister, Mrs. Elwood Hnshaw (sic) of Lynn and three brothers, Aaron of Mooreland, John of near Winchester and Albert of Rodgers, O., survive her: also two step-daughters, Mrs. Huldah Parker of Newcastle, and Miss Louisa Wickersham of Spiceland and one step-son, Arthur Wickersham of Newcastle.
Mrs. Wickersham was a devoted member of the Friends church and filled the station of elder in three different monthly meetings. First in Springfield monthly meeting to which Flatrock meeting belonged, where she was converted in early womanhood, and in Newcastle, when she lived with her brother Joseph, and again in Hopewell monthly meeting while she lived at Richsquare. Though deeply religious she was not intolerant of the opnions (sic) of others that differed from those held by herself.
We may speak of the personal characteristics most prominent in the lives of our friends, but we cannot know when we have given a true characterization of one's life, because we do not know the hidden springs of that life, or the motives behind the action; but we are comforted with the thought that there is One who knows and understands, and who makes no mistakes in the proper estimate of character.
Courier Times, New Castle, Indiana, 5-29-1917
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001
True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold
When he is sent to summon those we love,
But all God's angels come to us disguised.
Life is the jailer. Death the angel sent
To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free
The bolts were drawn and the spirit of Margaret A. Brown Wickersham was set free in the early morning hours of May 15, 1917. Her illness was not of long duration, but at times her suffering was intense.
Margaret Ann Brown was born August 22, 1845, and was the third child in a family of ten children in the home of Moses and Delphia Brown. This home was in the Flatrock neighborhood of Friends, east of Newcastle.
Seventy years ago the facilities for acquiring an education were limited, but with native ability and an earnest desire for the better things of life, as she grew into womanhood she gained a fund of knowledge that many with the same advantages would have mssed (sic).
Her time was largely given to home interests. When her Brother Joseph's wife died, Margaret went into the bereaved home and took upon herself the work of housekeeper and homemaker until her marriage to Jethro Wickersham, December 27, 1888. For nearly twenty-eight years she proved a devoted wife until death claimed him last September in speaking of his death recently she said "that she had been spared to care for him while he lived, and that now it seemed to her that her mission on earth was about finished." Truly the separation was not long.
One sister, Mrs. Anna Bradbury, and four brothers, Isaac, Henry, Joseph H. and Hadley, preceded her to the eternal home. One sister, Mrs. Elwood Hnshaw (sic) of Lynn and three brothers, Aaron of Mooreland, John of near Winchester and Albert of Rodgers, O., survive her: also two step-daughters, Mrs. Huldah Parker of Newcastle, and Miss Louisa Wickersham of Spiceland and one step-son, Arthur Wickersham of Newcastle.
Mrs. Wickersham was a devoted member of the Friends church and filled the station of elder in three different monthly meetings. First in Springfield monthly meeting to which Flatrock meeting belonged, where she was converted in early womanhood, and in Newcastle, when she lived with her brother Joseph, and again in Hopewell monthly meeting while she lived at Richsquare. Though deeply religious she was not intolerant of the opnions (sic) of others that differed from those held by herself.
We may speak of the personal characteristics most prominent in the lives of our friends, but we cannot know when we have given a true characterization of one's life, because we do not know the hidden springs of that life, or the motives behind the action; but we are comforted with the thought that there is One who knows and understands, and who makes no mistakes in the proper estimate of character.
Courier Times, New Castle, Indiana, 5-29-1917
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001
OBITUARY:
True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold
When he is sent to summon those we love,
But all God's angels come to us disguised.
Life is the jailer. Death the angel sent
To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free
The bolts were drawn and the spirit of Margaret A. Brown Wickersham was set free in the early morning hours of May 15, 1917. Her illness was not of long duration, but at times her suffering was intense.
Margaret Ann Brown was born August 22, 1845, and was the third child in a family of ten children in the home of Moses and Delphia Brown. This home was in the Flatrock neighborhood of Friends, east of Newcastle.
Seventy years ago the facilities for acquiring an education were limited, but with native ability and an earnest desire for the better things of life, as she grew into womanhood she gained a fund of knowledge that many with the same advantages would have mssed (sic).
Her time was largely given to home interests. When her Brother Joseph's wife died, Margaret went into the bereaved home and took upon herself the work of housekeeper and homemaker until her marriage to Jethro Wickersham, December 27, 1888. For nearly twenty-eight years she proved a devoted wife until death claimed him last September in speaking of his death recently she said "that she had been spared to care for him while he lived, and that now it seemed to her that her mission on earth was about finished." Truly the separation was not long.
One sister, Mrs. Anna Bradbury, and four brothers, Isaac, Henry, Joseph H. and Hadley, preceded her to the eternal home. One sister, Mrs. Elwood Hnshaw (sic) of Lynn and three brothers, Aaron of Mooreland, John of near Winchester and Albert of Rodgers, O., survive her: also two step-daughters, Mrs. Huldah Parker of Newcastle, and Miss Louisa Wickersham of Spiceland and one step-son, Arthur Wickersham of Newcastle.
Mrs. Wickersham was a devoted member of the Friends church and filled the station of elder in three different monthly meetings. First in Springfield monthly meeting to which Flatrock meeting belonged, where she was converted in early womanhood, and in Newcastle, when she lived with her brother Joseph, and again in Hopewell monthly meeting while she lived at Richsquare. Though deeply religious she was not intolerant of the opnions (sic) of others that differed from those held by herself.
We may speak of the personal characteristics most prominent in the lives of our friends, but we cannot know when we have given a true characterization of one's life, because we do not know the hidden springs of that life, or the motives behind the action; but we are comforted with the thought that there is One who knows and understands, and who makes no mistakes in the proper estimate of character.
Courier Times, New Castle, Indiana, 5-29-1917
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001
True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold
When he is sent to summon those we love,
But all God's angels come to us disguised.
Life is the jailer. Death the angel sent
To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free
The bolts were drawn and the spirit of Margaret A. Brown Wickersham was set free in the early morning hours of May 15, 1917. Her illness was not of long duration, but at times her suffering was intense.
Margaret Ann Brown was born August 22, 1845, and was the third child in a family of ten children in the home of Moses and Delphia Brown. This home was in the Flatrock neighborhood of Friends, east of Newcastle.
Seventy years ago the facilities for acquiring an education were limited, but with native ability and an earnest desire for the better things of life, as she grew into womanhood she gained a fund of knowledge that many with the same advantages would have mssed (sic).
Her time was largely given to home interests. When her Brother Joseph's wife died, Margaret went into the bereaved home and took upon herself the work of housekeeper and homemaker until her marriage to Jethro Wickersham, December 27, 1888. For nearly twenty-eight years she proved a devoted wife until death claimed him last September in speaking of his death recently she said "that she had been spared to care for him while he lived, and that now it seemed to her that her mission on earth was about finished." Truly the separation was not long.
One sister, Mrs. Anna Bradbury, and four brothers, Isaac, Henry, Joseph H. and Hadley, preceded her to the eternal home. One sister, Mrs. Elwood Hnshaw (sic) of Lynn and three brothers, Aaron of Mooreland, John of near Winchester and Albert of Rodgers, O., survive her: also two step-daughters, Mrs. Huldah Parker of Newcastle, and Miss Louisa Wickersham of Spiceland and one step-son, Arthur Wickersham of Newcastle.
Mrs. Wickersham was a devoted member of the Friends church and filled the station of elder in three different monthly meetings. First in Springfield monthly meeting to which Flatrock meeting belonged, where she was converted in early womanhood, and in Newcastle, when she lived with her brother Joseph, and again in Hopewell monthly meeting while she lived at Richsquare. Though deeply religious she was not intolerant of the opnions (sic) of others that differed from those held by herself.
We may speak of the personal characteristics most prominent in the lives of our friends, but we cannot know when we have given a true characterization of one's life, because we do not know the hidden springs of that life, or the motives behind the action; but we are comforted with the thought that there is One who knows and understands, and who makes no mistakes in the proper estimate of character.
Courier Times, New Castle, Indiana, 5-29-1917
Davis, Sheldon, Escalante, "The Wickersham Family in America," Heritage Books, Inc. 2001
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