Traer Star Clipper, Friday, April 14th, 1911 page 7
The columns of last week's Star Clipper announced the serious illness of Mrs. G. Jaqua. Before the paper had reached many of its readers, the illness had terminated fatally. About two years ago Mrs. Jaqua suffered a severe attack of heart trouble, from which she never fully recovered. On account of this weakness, Mr. and Mrs. Jaqua gave up their home in Humboldt and came to Traer to make their home with their daughters, the Mesdames Owens. Christina Thomas was born in Winchester, Ohio, March 16, 1830. From childhood till death, she was a student and during her school years was always a leader in her class. Afterward she became a teacher, which profession she followed until she married Mr. Jaqua, March 38, 1855, who at that time was principal of the high school at Lewisburg, Ohio. In March 1857 they moved to Iowa and located on a farm one mile north of the present site of Traer. This was their home until 1882 when Messrs. Jaqua & Taylor bought the Clipper and consolidated it with the Star. Soon after this the family removed to town. They remained here until about sixteen years ago when Mr. Jaqua and his youngest son, Frank, purchased the Humboldt Republican and moved to Humboldt to conduct the same. Lately Mr. Jaqua closed out his interest to his son and came back to Traer, which was always home, even though living in another town.
Death claimed her on Thursday April 6, 1911 at ten o'clock p. m., less than one month after her eighty-first birthday. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are living to mourn their mother's passing. Elouise, wife of Henry Owen, lives on a farm near town; Reuben, a lawyer, lives at St. Frances, Kansas; Florence, wife of John Owen, lives at Dinsdale; Cassius M., owns and publishes a pa¬per in Warrensburg, Missouri; J. Frank, the Humboldt Republican. Leonard died a few years ago at Portland, Oregon, following an accident: Lydia, when about nine years of age. In her father's family there were five children. John was killed in the war of 1861 and two sisters died in this community. B. F. Thomas, a merchant in Traer, is now the sole survivor of this family. Her husband, brother and all the children except Cassius were present at the funeral service.
Mrs. Jaqua was a very superior woman, a delight and an inspiration to all who knew her. It was not the writer's privilege to know her until her family had grown to manhood and womanhood and had left the parental roof to seek fortunes and homes of their own. She was passing the meridian of life and approaching the serene and beautiful old age which fitted her so gracefully. But we know she was a good home maker, a wise and patient mother and a true companion to her husband. She was a busy woman. Could a mother of seven children be otherwise? But in the early pioneer days of this community motherhood meant more than it does today. The necessities of life were not obtained with ease and the comforts and luxuries wore unknown. But they had courage and common sense and rose above the difficulties and trials that oppressed her. We have said she was a student and that explains largely the depth and breadth of her everyday life, for she applied a student's mind to all the details of her busy days. There was never a time when her work hindered her studiousness, for she studied her work and made it possible to accomplish it in such a way as to lead to other things outside the daily routine. She was a great reader and a wonderful memory helped her to remember what she read. About fourteen years ago we journeyed through Mexico in company, and we will never forget how, in travelling through the various cities of historic interest, she would recite in detail the incidents occurring there. Asking her how she found time to post herself so thoroughly before leaving home she told us she had read Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" when she was seventeen and had never seen it since. She was giving us what she could remember after all those years. She was also a thinker. Not content to read what others knew or thought, she cast these things over in her own mind as, rejecting what she did not fancy and putting in use what she had need of. Lastly, she was also a prolific writer. After she had read and studied and worked, she would write down the results of her labors and pass them on to benefit others who might be puzzling over similar questions. Nor did she confine herself to any special lines of thought. Politics, questions of the day, woman's work, agriculture, the care of children, the famine in India or the fashions in France, it mattered not what topic you might suggest, she was prepared to take it up. Her pen was to her what fancy work, music or art is to many other women, her delight and recreation, and she continued to use it after her hands had grown too feeble for many other tasks. The good resulting from the life of such a woman cannot be counted. Always modest and unassuming, she went quietly through life, scattering good deeds, helpful works and kindly actions along her path, an example to all womanhood of what a broadminded, active, earnest wife and mother may accomplish in a long and useful life.
The funeral was held Sabbath afternoon. There was a large attendance, especially of the older settlers, who knew Mrs. Jaqua when she was young and strong and active. The pallbearers were five of the Thomas boys, relatives, and R. J. Morison, who married Miss Felter, who found a happy home with the Jaquas seven years. A thoughtful address was delivered by Rev. Gonzales. There were many beautiful floral offerings. Interment was in Buckingham cemetery.
The columns of last week's Star Clipper announced the serious illness of Mrs. G. Jaqua. Before the paper had reached many of its readers, the illness had terminated fatally. About two years ago Mrs. Jaqua suffered a severe attack of heart trouble, from which she never fully recovered. On account of this weakness, Mr. and Mrs. Jaqua gave up their home in Humboldt and came to Traer to make their home with their daughters, the Mesdames Owens. Christina Thomas was born in Winchester, Ohio, March 16, 1830. From childhood till death, she was a student and during her school years was always a leader in her class. Afterward she became a teacher, which profession she followed until she married Mr. Jaqua, March 38, 1855, who at that time was principal of the high school at Lewisburg, Ohio. In March 1857 they moved to Iowa and located on a farm one mile north of the present site of Traer. This was their home until 1882 when Messrs. Jaqua & Taylor bought the Clipper and consolidated it with the Star. Soon after this the family removed to town. They remained here until about sixteen years ago when Mr. Jaqua and his youngest son, Frank, purchased the Humboldt Republican and moved to Humboldt to conduct the same. Lately Mr. Jaqua closed out his interest to his son and came back to Traer, which was always home, even though living in another town.
Death claimed her on Thursday April 6, 1911 at ten o'clock p. m., less than one month after her eighty-first birthday. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are living to mourn their mother's passing. Elouise, wife of Henry Owen, lives on a farm near town; Reuben, a lawyer, lives at St. Frances, Kansas; Florence, wife of John Owen, lives at Dinsdale; Cassius M., owns and publishes a pa¬per in Warrensburg, Missouri; J. Frank, the Humboldt Republican. Leonard died a few years ago at Portland, Oregon, following an accident: Lydia, when about nine years of age. In her father's family there were five children. John was killed in the war of 1861 and two sisters died in this community. B. F. Thomas, a merchant in Traer, is now the sole survivor of this family. Her husband, brother and all the children except Cassius were present at the funeral service.
Mrs. Jaqua was a very superior woman, a delight and an inspiration to all who knew her. It was not the writer's privilege to know her until her family had grown to manhood and womanhood and had left the parental roof to seek fortunes and homes of their own. She was passing the meridian of life and approaching the serene and beautiful old age which fitted her so gracefully. But we know she was a good home maker, a wise and patient mother and a true companion to her husband. She was a busy woman. Could a mother of seven children be otherwise? But in the early pioneer days of this community motherhood meant more than it does today. The necessities of life were not obtained with ease and the comforts and luxuries wore unknown. But they had courage and common sense and rose above the difficulties and trials that oppressed her. We have said she was a student and that explains largely the depth and breadth of her everyday life, for she applied a student's mind to all the details of her busy days. There was never a time when her work hindered her studiousness, for she studied her work and made it possible to accomplish it in such a way as to lead to other things outside the daily routine. She was a great reader and a wonderful memory helped her to remember what she read. About fourteen years ago we journeyed through Mexico in company, and we will never forget how, in travelling through the various cities of historic interest, she would recite in detail the incidents occurring there. Asking her how she found time to post herself so thoroughly before leaving home she told us she had read Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" when she was seventeen and had never seen it since. She was giving us what she could remember after all those years. She was also a thinker. Not content to read what others knew or thought, she cast these things over in her own mind as, rejecting what she did not fancy and putting in use what she had need of. Lastly, she was also a prolific writer. After she had read and studied and worked, she would write down the results of her labors and pass them on to benefit others who might be puzzling over similar questions. Nor did she confine herself to any special lines of thought. Politics, questions of the day, woman's work, agriculture, the care of children, the famine in India or the fashions in France, it mattered not what topic you might suggest, she was prepared to take it up. Her pen was to her what fancy work, music or art is to many other women, her delight and recreation, and she continued to use it after her hands had grown too feeble for many other tasks. The good resulting from the life of such a woman cannot be counted. Always modest and unassuming, she went quietly through life, scattering good deeds, helpful works and kindly actions along her path, an example to all womanhood of what a broadminded, active, earnest wife and mother may accomplish in a long and useful life.
The funeral was held Sabbath afternoon. There was a large attendance, especially of the older settlers, who knew Mrs. Jaqua when she was young and strong and active. The pallbearers were five of the Thomas boys, relatives, and R. J. Morison, who married Miss Felter, who found a happy home with the Jaquas seven years. A thoughtful address was delivered by Rev. Gonzales. There were many beautiful floral offerings. Interment was in Buckingham cemetery.
Traer Star Clipper, Friday, April 14th, 1911 page 7
The columns of last week's Star Clipper announced the serious illness of Mrs. G. Jaqua. Before the paper had reached many of its readers, the illness had terminated fatally. About two years ago Mrs. Jaqua suffered a severe attack of heart trouble, from which she never fully recovered. On account of this weakness, Mr. and Mrs. Jaqua gave up their home in Humboldt and came to Traer to make their home with their daughters, the Mesdames Owens. Christina Thomas was born in Winchester, Ohio, March 16, 1830. From childhood till death, she was a student and during her school years was always a leader in her class. Afterward she became a teacher, which profession she followed until she married Mr. Jaqua, March 38, 1855, who at that time was principal of the high school at Lewisburg, Ohio. In March 1857 they moved to Iowa and located on a farm one mile north of the present site of Traer. This was their home until 1882 when Messrs. Jaqua & Taylor bought the Clipper and consolidated it with the Star. Soon after this the family removed to town. They remained here until about sixteen years ago when Mr. Jaqua and his youngest son, Frank, purchased the Humboldt Republican and moved to Humboldt to conduct the same. Lately Mr. Jaqua closed out his interest to his son and came back to Traer, which was always home, even though living in another town.
Death claimed her on Thursday April 6, 1911 at ten o'clock p. m., less than one month after her eighty-first birthday. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are living to mourn their mother's passing. Elouise, wife of Henry Owen, lives on a farm near town; Reuben, a lawyer, lives at St. Frances, Kansas; Florence, wife of John Owen, lives at Dinsdale; Cassius M., owns and publishes a pa¬per in Warrensburg, Missouri; J. Frank, the Humboldt Republican. Leonard died a few years ago at Portland, Oregon, following an accident: Lydia, when about nine years of age. In her father's family there were five children. John was killed in the war of 1861 and two sisters died in this community. B. F. Thomas, a merchant in Traer, is now the sole survivor of this family. Her husband, brother and all the children except Cassius were present at the funeral service.
Mrs. Jaqua was a very superior woman, a delight and an inspiration to all who knew her. It was not the writer's privilege to know her until her family had grown to manhood and womanhood and had left the parental roof to seek fortunes and homes of their own. She was passing the meridian of life and approaching the serene and beautiful old age which fitted her so gracefully. But we know she was a good home maker, a wise and patient mother and a true companion to her husband. She was a busy woman. Could a mother of seven children be otherwise? But in the early pioneer days of this community motherhood meant more than it does today. The necessities of life were not obtained with ease and the comforts and luxuries wore unknown. But they had courage and common sense and rose above the difficulties and trials that oppressed her. We have said she was a student and that explains largely the depth and breadth of her everyday life, for she applied a student's mind to all the details of her busy days. There was never a time when her work hindered her studiousness, for she studied her work and made it possible to accomplish it in such a way as to lead to other things outside the daily routine. She was a great reader and a wonderful memory helped her to remember what she read. About fourteen years ago we journeyed through Mexico in company, and we will never forget how, in travelling through the various cities of historic interest, she would recite in detail the incidents occurring there. Asking her how she found time to post herself so thoroughly before leaving home she told us she had read Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" when she was seventeen and had never seen it since. She was giving us what she could remember after all those years. She was also a thinker. Not content to read what others knew or thought, she cast these things over in her own mind as, rejecting what she did not fancy and putting in use what she had need of. Lastly, she was also a prolific writer. After she had read and studied and worked, she would write down the results of her labors and pass them on to benefit others who might be puzzling over similar questions. Nor did she confine herself to any special lines of thought. Politics, questions of the day, woman's work, agriculture, the care of children, the famine in India or the fashions in France, it mattered not what topic you might suggest, she was prepared to take it up. Her pen was to her what fancy work, music or art is to many other women, her delight and recreation, and she continued to use it after her hands had grown too feeble for many other tasks. The good resulting from the life of such a woman cannot be counted. Always modest and unassuming, she went quietly through life, scattering good deeds, helpful works and kindly actions along her path, an example to all womanhood of what a broadminded, active, earnest wife and mother may accomplish in a long and useful life.
The funeral was held Sabbath afternoon. There was a large attendance, especially of the older settlers, who knew Mrs. Jaqua when she was young and strong and active. The pallbearers were five of the Thomas boys, relatives, and R. J. Morison, who married Miss Felter, who found a happy home with the Jaquas seven years. A thoughtful address was delivered by Rev. Gonzales. There were many beautiful floral offerings. Interment was in Buckingham cemetery.
The columns of last week's Star Clipper announced the serious illness of Mrs. G. Jaqua. Before the paper had reached many of its readers, the illness had terminated fatally. About two years ago Mrs. Jaqua suffered a severe attack of heart trouble, from which she never fully recovered. On account of this weakness, Mr. and Mrs. Jaqua gave up their home in Humboldt and came to Traer to make their home with their daughters, the Mesdames Owens. Christina Thomas was born in Winchester, Ohio, March 16, 1830. From childhood till death, she was a student and during her school years was always a leader in her class. Afterward she became a teacher, which profession she followed until she married Mr. Jaqua, March 38, 1855, who at that time was principal of the high school at Lewisburg, Ohio. In March 1857 they moved to Iowa and located on a farm one mile north of the present site of Traer. This was their home until 1882 when Messrs. Jaqua & Taylor bought the Clipper and consolidated it with the Star. Soon after this the family removed to town. They remained here until about sixteen years ago when Mr. Jaqua and his youngest son, Frank, purchased the Humboldt Republican and moved to Humboldt to conduct the same. Lately Mr. Jaqua closed out his interest to his son and came back to Traer, which was always home, even though living in another town.
Death claimed her on Thursday April 6, 1911 at ten o'clock p. m., less than one month after her eighty-first birthday. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom are living to mourn their mother's passing. Elouise, wife of Henry Owen, lives on a farm near town; Reuben, a lawyer, lives at St. Frances, Kansas; Florence, wife of John Owen, lives at Dinsdale; Cassius M., owns and publishes a pa¬per in Warrensburg, Missouri; J. Frank, the Humboldt Republican. Leonard died a few years ago at Portland, Oregon, following an accident: Lydia, when about nine years of age. In her father's family there were five children. John was killed in the war of 1861 and two sisters died in this community. B. F. Thomas, a merchant in Traer, is now the sole survivor of this family. Her husband, brother and all the children except Cassius were present at the funeral service.
Mrs. Jaqua was a very superior woman, a delight and an inspiration to all who knew her. It was not the writer's privilege to know her until her family had grown to manhood and womanhood and had left the parental roof to seek fortunes and homes of their own. She was passing the meridian of life and approaching the serene and beautiful old age which fitted her so gracefully. But we know she was a good home maker, a wise and patient mother and a true companion to her husband. She was a busy woman. Could a mother of seven children be otherwise? But in the early pioneer days of this community motherhood meant more than it does today. The necessities of life were not obtained with ease and the comforts and luxuries wore unknown. But they had courage and common sense and rose above the difficulties and trials that oppressed her. We have said she was a student and that explains largely the depth and breadth of her everyday life, for she applied a student's mind to all the details of her busy days. There was never a time when her work hindered her studiousness, for she studied her work and made it possible to accomplish it in such a way as to lead to other things outside the daily routine. She was a great reader and a wonderful memory helped her to remember what she read. About fourteen years ago we journeyed through Mexico in company, and we will never forget how, in travelling through the various cities of historic interest, she would recite in detail the incidents occurring there. Asking her how she found time to post herself so thoroughly before leaving home she told us she had read Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico" when she was seventeen and had never seen it since. She was giving us what she could remember after all those years. She was also a thinker. Not content to read what others knew or thought, she cast these things over in her own mind as, rejecting what she did not fancy and putting in use what she had need of. Lastly, she was also a prolific writer. After she had read and studied and worked, she would write down the results of her labors and pass them on to benefit others who might be puzzling over similar questions. Nor did she confine herself to any special lines of thought. Politics, questions of the day, woman's work, agriculture, the care of children, the famine in India or the fashions in France, it mattered not what topic you might suggest, she was prepared to take it up. Her pen was to her what fancy work, music or art is to many other women, her delight and recreation, and she continued to use it after her hands had grown too feeble for many other tasks. The good resulting from the life of such a woman cannot be counted. Always modest and unassuming, she went quietly through life, scattering good deeds, helpful works and kindly actions along her path, an example to all womanhood of what a broadminded, active, earnest wife and mother may accomplish in a long and useful life.
The funeral was held Sabbath afternoon. There was a large attendance, especially of the older settlers, who knew Mrs. Jaqua when she was young and strong and active. The pallbearers were five of the Thomas boys, relatives, and R. J. Morison, who married Miss Felter, who found a happy home with the Jaquas seven years. A thoughtful address was delivered by Rev. Gonzales. There were many beautiful floral offerings. Interment was in Buckingham cemetery.
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