William & Emma were married in Bureau County, IL on 22 Feb 1893.
From Bradford Republican, Bradford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 6, 1918, p. 1, col. 1]
Emma Ardell Griswold, daughter of John and Olive Griswold, was born in Milo township, Bureau County, Ill., on December 14th, 1872, and died October 31, 1918, aged forty-five years, ten months and seventeen days.
Mrs. Austin was converted and united with the Boyd’s Grove M. E. church September 3, 1905, and ever after remained a living example of Christian faith and life.
No words can be used that can overestimate her goodness of heart. To her family she was all a loving wife and mother could be. By her neighbors and friends generally was she respected and loved, for her large, warm heart and unselfish nature, ever ready to cheerfully assist and lend a helping hand to all.
October 22, 1893, she was united in marriage to William B. Austin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Austin and to this happy union four children were born: Hazel, now Mrs. Hazel Bare, Lena, Ralph and Doris, all of whom were at her bedside when she passed beyond. These, with the heart-grief of husband, are left to mourn a mother’s love and a wife’s devotion.
Her future was full of promise and she had much to live for, but we mustn’t ask why she was taken from us, from her loved ones, who needed her so much, unless, as flowers are placed before the frost finds them that we may not witness their decay. It is sad, indeed, to see one so well equipped in life taken so unexpectedly, yet for her there was no standing at the border-land, gazing into the unknown, she was ready when her Maker gave the call. A life that imparts such lessons is well worth living.
She was a gallant and uncomplaining sufferer, and when all that medical skill and loving hands could do proved of no avail, she quietly passed into that sleep of Death, which knows no awakening in this world.
Besides her heart-broken husband and children, she leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Olive Griswold of Tiskilwa, two sisters, Mrs. John McClane of Bradford and Mrs. Hiram Allen of Tiskilwa, and one brother, Melvin Griswold of Princeton, and a host of relatives and friends.
“But now she sleeps where the daisies nod,
And the clover hangs its head,
Where the wild birds come and the wild bees hum,
Above her lonely bed.
And she fought the fights, she kept the faith,
Her fame shines bright and clear,
And her memory lives in all our hearts
Which will hold it ever dear.”
Contributor: Don Saxon
From Bradford Republican, Bradford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 6, 1918, p. 1, col. 1]
Emma Ardell Griswold, daughter of John and Olive Griswold, was born in Milo township, Bureau County, Ill., on December 14th, 1872, and died October 31, 1918, aged forty-five years, ten months and seventeen days.
Mrs. Austin was converted and united with the Boyd’s Grove M. E. church September 3, 1905, and ever after remained a living example of Christian faith and life.
No words can be used that can overestimate her goodness of heart. To her family she was all a loving wife and mother could be. By her neighbors and friends generally was she respected and loved, for her large, warm heart and unselfish nature, ever ready to cheerfully assist and lend a helping hand to all.
October 22, 1893, she was united in marriage to William B. Austin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Austin and to this happy union four children were born: Hazel, now Mrs. Hazel Bare, Lena, Ralph and Doris, all of whom were at her bedside when she passed beyond. These, with the heart-grief of husband, are left to mourn a mother’s love and a wife’s devotion.
Her future was full of promise and she had much to live for, but we mustn’t ask why she was taken from us, from her loved ones, who needed her so much, unless, as flowers are placed before the frost finds them that we may not witness their decay. It is sad, indeed, to see one so well equipped in life taken so unexpectedly, yet for her there was no standing at the border-land, gazing into the unknown, she was ready when her Maker gave the call. A life that imparts such lessons is well worth living.
She was a gallant and uncomplaining sufferer, and when all that medical skill and loving hands could do proved of no avail, she quietly passed into that sleep of Death, which knows no awakening in this world.
Besides her heart-broken husband and children, she leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Olive Griswold of Tiskilwa, two sisters, Mrs. John McClane of Bradford and Mrs. Hiram Allen of Tiskilwa, and one brother, Melvin Griswold of Princeton, and a host of relatives and friends.
“But now she sleeps where the daisies nod,
And the clover hangs its head,
Where the wild birds come and the wild bees hum,
Above her lonely bed.
And she fought the fights, she kept the faith,
Her fame shines bright and clear,
And her memory lives in all our hearts
Which will hold it ever dear.”
Contributor: Don Saxon
William & Emma were married in Bureau County, IL on 22 Feb 1893.
From Bradford Republican, Bradford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 6, 1918, p. 1, col. 1]
Emma Ardell Griswold, daughter of John and Olive Griswold, was born in Milo township, Bureau County, Ill., on December 14th, 1872, and died October 31, 1918, aged forty-five years, ten months and seventeen days.
Mrs. Austin was converted and united with the Boyd’s Grove M. E. church September 3, 1905, and ever after remained a living example of Christian faith and life.
No words can be used that can overestimate her goodness of heart. To her family she was all a loving wife and mother could be. By her neighbors and friends generally was she respected and loved, for her large, warm heart and unselfish nature, ever ready to cheerfully assist and lend a helping hand to all.
October 22, 1893, she was united in marriage to William B. Austin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Austin and to this happy union four children were born: Hazel, now Mrs. Hazel Bare, Lena, Ralph and Doris, all of whom were at her bedside when she passed beyond. These, with the heart-grief of husband, are left to mourn a mother’s love and a wife’s devotion.
Her future was full of promise and she had much to live for, but we mustn’t ask why she was taken from us, from her loved ones, who needed her so much, unless, as flowers are placed before the frost finds them that we may not witness their decay. It is sad, indeed, to see one so well equipped in life taken so unexpectedly, yet for her there was no standing at the border-land, gazing into the unknown, she was ready when her Maker gave the call. A life that imparts such lessons is well worth living.
She was a gallant and uncomplaining sufferer, and when all that medical skill and loving hands could do proved of no avail, she quietly passed into that sleep of Death, which knows no awakening in this world.
Besides her heart-broken husband and children, she leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Olive Griswold of Tiskilwa, two sisters, Mrs. John McClane of Bradford and Mrs. Hiram Allen of Tiskilwa, and one brother, Melvin Griswold of Princeton, and a host of relatives and friends.
“But now she sleeps where the daisies nod,
And the clover hangs its head,
Where the wild birds come and the wild bees hum,
Above her lonely bed.
And she fought the fights, she kept the faith,
Her fame shines bright and clear,
And her memory lives in all our hearts
Which will hold it ever dear.”
Contributor: Don Saxon
From Bradford Republican, Bradford, Illinois, Wednesday, November 6, 1918, p. 1, col. 1]
Emma Ardell Griswold, daughter of John and Olive Griswold, was born in Milo township, Bureau County, Ill., on December 14th, 1872, and died October 31, 1918, aged forty-five years, ten months and seventeen days.
Mrs. Austin was converted and united with the Boyd’s Grove M. E. church September 3, 1905, and ever after remained a living example of Christian faith and life.
No words can be used that can overestimate her goodness of heart. To her family she was all a loving wife and mother could be. By her neighbors and friends generally was she respected and loved, for her large, warm heart and unselfish nature, ever ready to cheerfully assist and lend a helping hand to all.
October 22, 1893, she was united in marriage to William B. Austin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Austin and to this happy union four children were born: Hazel, now Mrs. Hazel Bare, Lena, Ralph and Doris, all of whom were at her bedside when she passed beyond. These, with the heart-grief of husband, are left to mourn a mother’s love and a wife’s devotion.
Her future was full of promise and she had much to live for, but we mustn’t ask why she was taken from us, from her loved ones, who needed her so much, unless, as flowers are placed before the frost finds them that we may not witness their decay. It is sad, indeed, to see one so well equipped in life taken so unexpectedly, yet for her there was no standing at the border-land, gazing into the unknown, she was ready when her Maker gave the call. A life that imparts such lessons is well worth living.
She was a gallant and uncomplaining sufferer, and when all that medical skill and loving hands could do proved of no avail, she quietly passed into that sleep of Death, which knows no awakening in this world.
Besides her heart-broken husband and children, she leaves an aged mother, Mrs. Olive Griswold of Tiskilwa, two sisters, Mrs. John McClane of Bradford and Mrs. Hiram Allen of Tiskilwa, and one brother, Melvin Griswold of Princeton, and a host of relatives and friends.
“But now she sleeps where the daisies nod,
And the clover hangs its head,
Where the wild birds come and the wild bees hum,
Above her lonely bed.
And she fought the fights, she kept the faith,
Her fame shines bright and clear,
And her memory lives in all our hearts
Which will hold it ever dear.”
Contributor: Don Saxon
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