Delphos Republican
January 18, 1929
Almira Mary Bishop was born at Readsborough, Vermont, Sept. 25, 1833, and departed this life January 7, 1929, aged 95 years, 3 months and 13 days.
She was united in marriage to Walter J. Eames in 1854. In the year of 1856, they moved to the state of Wisconsin, where, amid the pioneer scenes, they endeavored to build a home nest. But when the war of the rebellion suddenly called to arms her patriot sons, Mr. Eames responded in 1865 and went to the front. In the month of May of the same year, he was stricken with a malignant fever and passed to the superior life. Being left alone with four small children, her resources were taxed to a strenuous degree that she might administer to their welfare.
In the fall of 1876, she, with her three sons and one daughter, came to Kansas, locating on a farm two and one half miles southeast of Delphos, where she labored, sharing the vicissitudes of early pioneer days, which beset the immigrants that sought to carve homes from the wilderness of this great American desert.
As the years rolled by, this courageous soul, whose fearless heart, beating to the rhythm and harmony for her loved ones, toiled and struggled with hope and sorrow that she might conquer the savagery of Fate. But with the ebbing and flowing tide of years, lashing the shores of memory, sometimes bringing safely ashore visions of happiness, again there came wreckages of dismal barques on life's tempestuous sea. That silent messenger, which has stalked the eons of time, defying the protests and pleadings of all humanity, entered into the home and bore away three precious jewels from the casket of a mother's love: Cora, Ryland and Ellsworth.
With the demise of her son Ellsworth in 1922, she accompanied her son, W.B. Eames, to his home in Grand Valley, Colo., where she resided until her departure.
Thus runs the record of a journey in this mundane life of a courageous soul, coming to the exit, thru which all must pass, into the broader vision to again take up the journey in a small realm of greater wisdom.
Mrs. Eames was an untiring worker in the temperance cause, and was responsible, to a large extent, for the progress of prohibition, not only for the community in which she lived, but in the state as well.
January 18, 1929
Almira Mary Bishop was born at Readsborough, Vermont, Sept. 25, 1833, and departed this life January 7, 1929, aged 95 years, 3 months and 13 days.
She was united in marriage to Walter J. Eames in 1854. In the year of 1856, they moved to the state of Wisconsin, where, amid the pioneer scenes, they endeavored to build a home nest. But when the war of the rebellion suddenly called to arms her patriot sons, Mr. Eames responded in 1865 and went to the front. In the month of May of the same year, he was stricken with a malignant fever and passed to the superior life. Being left alone with four small children, her resources were taxed to a strenuous degree that she might administer to their welfare.
In the fall of 1876, she, with her three sons and one daughter, came to Kansas, locating on a farm two and one half miles southeast of Delphos, where she labored, sharing the vicissitudes of early pioneer days, which beset the immigrants that sought to carve homes from the wilderness of this great American desert.
As the years rolled by, this courageous soul, whose fearless heart, beating to the rhythm and harmony for her loved ones, toiled and struggled with hope and sorrow that she might conquer the savagery of Fate. But with the ebbing and flowing tide of years, lashing the shores of memory, sometimes bringing safely ashore visions of happiness, again there came wreckages of dismal barques on life's tempestuous sea. That silent messenger, which has stalked the eons of time, defying the protests and pleadings of all humanity, entered into the home and bore away three precious jewels from the casket of a mother's love: Cora, Ryland and Ellsworth.
With the demise of her son Ellsworth in 1922, she accompanied her son, W.B. Eames, to his home in Grand Valley, Colo., where she resided until her departure.
Thus runs the record of a journey in this mundane life of a courageous soul, coming to the exit, thru which all must pass, into the broader vision to again take up the journey in a small realm of greater wisdom.
Mrs. Eames was an untiring worker in the temperance cause, and was responsible, to a large extent, for the progress of prohibition, not only for the community in which she lived, but in the state as well.
Delphos Republican
January 18, 1929
Almira Mary Bishop was born at Readsborough, Vermont, Sept. 25, 1833, and departed this life January 7, 1929, aged 95 years, 3 months and 13 days.
She was united in marriage to Walter J. Eames in 1854. In the year of 1856, they moved to the state of Wisconsin, where, amid the pioneer scenes, they endeavored to build a home nest. But when the war of the rebellion suddenly called to arms her patriot sons, Mr. Eames responded in 1865 and went to the front. In the month of May of the same year, he was stricken with a malignant fever and passed to the superior life. Being left alone with four small children, her resources were taxed to a strenuous degree that she might administer to their welfare.
In the fall of 1876, she, with her three sons and one daughter, came to Kansas, locating on a farm two and one half miles southeast of Delphos, where she labored, sharing the vicissitudes of early pioneer days, which beset the immigrants that sought to carve homes from the wilderness of this great American desert.
As the years rolled by, this courageous soul, whose fearless heart, beating to the rhythm and harmony for her loved ones, toiled and struggled with hope and sorrow that she might conquer the savagery of Fate. But with the ebbing and flowing tide of years, lashing the shores of memory, sometimes bringing safely ashore visions of happiness, again there came wreckages of dismal barques on life's tempestuous sea. That silent messenger, which has stalked the eons of time, defying the protests and pleadings of all humanity, entered into the home and bore away three precious jewels from the casket of a mother's love: Cora, Ryland and Ellsworth.
With the demise of her son Ellsworth in 1922, she accompanied her son, W.B. Eames, to his home in Grand Valley, Colo., where she resided until her departure.
Thus runs the record of a journey in this mundane life of a courageous soul, coming to the exit, thru which all must pass, into the broader vision to again take up the journey in a small realm of greater wisdom.
Mrs. Eames was an untiring worker in the temperance cause, and was responsible, to a large extent, for the progress of prohibition, not only for the community in which she lived, but in the state as well.
January 18, 1929
Almira Mary Bishop was born at Readsborough, Vermont, Sept. 25, 1833, and departed this life January 7, 1929, aged 95 years, 3 months and 13 days.
She was united in marriage to Walter J. Eames in 1854. In the year of 1856, they moved to the state of Wisconsin, where, amid the pioneer scenes, they endeavored to build a home nest. But when the war of the rebellion suddenly called to arms her patriot sons, Mr. Eames responded in 1865 and went to the front. In the month of May of the same year, he was stricken with a malignant fever and passed to the superior life. Being left alone with four small children, her resources were taxed to a strenuous degree that she might administer to their welfare.
In the fall of 1876, she, with her three sons and one daughter, came to Kansas, locating on a farm two and one half miles southeast of Delphos, where she labored, sharing the vicissitudes of early pioneer days, which beset the immigrants that sought to carve homes from the wilderness of this great American desert.
As the years rolled by, this courageous soul, whose fearless heart, beating to the rhythm and harmony for her loved ones, toiled and struggled with hope and sorrow that she might conquer the savagery of Fate. But with the ebbing and flowing tide of years, lashing the shores of memory, sometimes bringing safely ashore visions of happiness, again there came wreckages of dismal barques on life's tempestuous sea. That silent messenger, which has stalked the eons of time, defying the protests and pleadings of all humanity, entered into the home and bore away three precious jewels from the casket of a mother's love: Cora, Ryland and Ellsworth.
With the demise of her son Ellsworth in 1922, she accompanied her son, W.B. Eames, to his home in Grand Valley, Colo., where she resided until her departure.
Thus runs the record of a journey in this mundane life of a courageous soul, coming to the exit, thru which all must pass, into the broader vision to again take up the journey in a small realm of greater wisdom.
Mrs. Eames was an untiring worker in the temperance cause, and was responsible, to a large extent, for the progress of prohibition, not only for the community in which she lived, but in the state as well.
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