Daughter of John & Susannah (Howarth) Hindle, wife of Simon P. Bower, m. Dec 28, 1871, Peoria County.
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Martha Hindle, eldest daughter of John and Susanah Hindle was born on November 21, 1846, in a sod house located south of Edwards Station, on a farm homesteaded by her grandfather. She passed away at her home in Brimfield on Sunday night, March 24, 1912, at the age of 65 years, 4 months, and 31 days.
Her parents moved from Edwards Station to Brimfield and settled on the Hindle homestead in the year 1847.
From there Martha received her early education at the North School, and later entered the Brimfield Academy under Professor L. Reagan and A. Trunker, where she was an eager student for two years. After thus preparing herself, she taught in the public schools of Peoria County for a number of years. She gave her heart to Christ in her early girlhood and reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brimfield on February 28, 1859.
On December 28, 1871 she was united in marriage to Simon P. Bowers and settled on a farm in Roseville Township. Five children, three girls and two boys, were born in this home to bless and brighten life's days as the years come and go. The two boys, Albert and James W., by God's own plan never came to mature manhood, He having summoned them from this life in childhood. Of the children, left to suffer the loss of their dearest friend on earth, their mother, there is Birda Olive, Catherine Susanah, and Laura May.
In the year 1898 the family moved back to Jubilee Township, living on the Hindle farm until coming to their present home in 1904.
It can most truly be said of Mrs. Bower that she looked well to the ways of her household and ate not the bread of idleness. She was a devoted wife and mother, always loving, kind, and true, and the thoughts of her year of devotion will bring no small measure of joy to her sorrowing husband, now bereft of her companionship.
As a mother she was all that most blessed word implies, and the impressions made by her love and care of them can never be effaced from the lives of these children now grown to womanhood.
Her Christian life has been one long season of unfaltering faith and abiding hope in Christ and His church, and with Daniel, God could trust to her the promise "Thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of thy days."
As a friend and neighbor she was always cheerful and sympathetic and especially so in befriending the old soldier and the cause of patriotism.
This is the story of a long life which has not finished, but in reality has just begun.
The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon the Methodist Episcopal Church at 1:30 p.m. and was very largely attended, with relatives and friends driving in from long distances to pay a last tribute to her memory. The service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. J. Sellard, assisted by Rev. R. Pacey. The body was laid to rest in the Brimfield Cemetery.
Brimfield News, March 28, 1912
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Martha Hindle, eldest daughter of John and Susanah Hindle was born on November 21, 1846, in a sod house located south of Edwards Station, on a farm homesteaded by her grandfather. She passed away at her home in Brimfield on Sunday night, March 24, 1912, at the age of 65 years, 4 months, and 31 days.
Her parents moved from Edwards Station to Brimfield and settled on the Hindle homestead in the year 1847.
From there Martha received her early education at the North School, and later entered the Brimfield Academy under Professor L. Reagan and A. Trunker, where she was an eager student for two years. After thus preparing herself, she taught in the public schools of Peoria County for a number of years. She gave her heart to Christ in her early girlhood and reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brimfield on February 28, 1859.
On December 28, 1871 she was united in marriage to Simon P. Bowers and settled on a farm in Roseville Township. Five children, three girls and two boys, were born in this home to bless and brighten life's days as the years come and go. The two boys, Albert and James W., by God's own plan never came to mature manhood, He having summoned them from this life in childhood. Of the children, left to suffer the loss of their dearest friend on earth, their mother, there is Birda Olive, Catherine Susanah, and Laura May.
In the year 1898 the family moved back to Jubilee Township, living on the Hindle farm until coming to their present home in 1904.
It can most truly be said of Mrs. Bower that she looked well to the ways of her household and ate not the bread of idleness. She was a devoted wife and mother, always loving, kind, and true, and the thoughts of her year of devotion will bring no small measure of joy to her sorrowing husband, now bereft of her companionship.
As a mother she was all that most blessed word implies, and the impressions made by her love and care of them can never be effaced from the lives of these children now grown to womanhood.
Her Christian life has been one long season of unfaltering faith and abiding hope in Christ and His church, and with Daniel, God could trust to her the promise "Thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of thy days."
As a friend and neighbor she was always cheerful and sympathetic and especially so in befriending the old soldier and the cause of patriotism.
This is the story of a long life which has not finished, but in reality has just begun.
The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon the Methodist Episcopal Church at 1:30 p.m. and was very largely attended, with relatives and friends driving in from long distances to pay a last tribute to her memory. The service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. J. Sellard, assisted by Rev. R. Pacey. The body was laid to rest in the Brimfield Cemetery.
Brimfield News, March 28, 1912
Daughter of John & Susannah (Howarth) Hindle, wife of Simon P. Bower, m. Dec 28, 1871, Peoria County.
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Martha Hindle, eldest daughter of John and Susanah Hindle was born on November 21, 1846, in a sod house located south of Edwards Station, on a farm homesteaded by her grandfather. She passed away at her home in Brimfield on Sunday night, March 24, 1912, at the age of 65 years, 4 months, and 31 days.
Her parents moved from Edwards Station to Brimfield and settled on the Hindle homestead in the year 1847.
From there Martha received her early education at the North School, and later entered the Brimfield Academy under Professor L. Reagan and A. Trunker, where she was an eager student for two years. After thus preparing herself, she taught in the public schools of Peoria County for a number of years. She gave her heart to Christ in her early girlhood and reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brimfield on February 28, 1859.
On December 28, 1871 she was united in marriage to Simon P. Bowers and settled on a farm in Roseville Township. Five children, three girls and two boys, were born in this home to bless and brighten life's days as the years come and go. The two boys, Albert and James W., by God's own plan never came to mature manhood, He having summoned them from this life in childhood. Of the children, left to suffer the loss of their dearest friend on earth, their mother, there is Birda Olive, Catherine Susanah, and Laura May.
In the year 1898 the family moved back to Jubilee Township, living on the Hindle farm until coming to their present home in 1904.
It can most truly be said of Mrs. Bower that she looked well to the ways of her household and ate not the bread of idleness. She was a devoted wife and mother, always loving, kind, and true, and the thoughts of her year of devotion will bring no small measure of joy to her sorrowing husband, now bereft of her companionship.
As a mother she was all that most blessed word implies, and the impressions made by her love and care of them can never be effaced from the lives of these children now grown to womanhood.
Her Christian life has been one long season of unfaltering faith and abiding hope in Christ and His church, and with Daniel, God could trust to her the promise "Thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of thy days."
As a friend and neighbor she was always cheerful and sympathetic and especially so in befriending the old soldier and the cause of patriotism.
This is the story of a long life which has not finished, but in reality has just begun.
The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon the Methodist Episcopal Church at 1:30 p.m. and was very largely attended, with relatives and friends driving in from long distances to pay a last tribute to her memory. The service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. J. Sellard, assisted by Rev. R. Pacey. The body was laid to rest in the Brimfield Cemetery.
Brimfield News, March 28, 1912
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Martha Hindle, eldest daughter of John and Susanah Hindle was born on November 21, 1846, in a sod house located south of Edwards Station, on a farm homesteaded by her grandfather. She passed away at her home in Brimfield on Sunday night, March 24, 1912, at the age of 65 years, 4 months, and 31 days.
Her parents moved from Edwards Station to Brimfield and settled on the Hindle homestead in the year 1847.
From there Martha received her early education at the North School, and later entered the Brimfield Academy under Professor L. Reagan and A. Trunker, where she was an eager student for two years. After thus preparing herself, she taught in the public schools of Peoria County for a number of years. She gave her heart to Christ in her early girlhood and reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brimfield on February 28, 1859.
On December 28, 1871 she was united in marriage to Simon P. Bowers and settled on a farm in Roseville Township. Five children, three girls and two boys, were born in this home to bless and brighten life's days as the years come and go. The two boys, Albert and James W., by God's own plan never came to mature manhood, He having summoned them from this life in childhood. Of the children, left to suffer the loss of their dearest friend on earth, their mother, there is Birda Olive, Catherine Susanah, and Laura May.
In the year 1898 the family moved back to Jubilee Township, living on the Hindle farm until coming to their present home in 1904.
It can most truly be said of Mrs. Bower that she looked well to the ways of her household and ate not the bread of idleness. She was a devoted wife and mother, always loving, kind, and true, and the thoughts of her year of devotion will bring no small measure of joy to her sorrowing husband, now bereft of her companionship.
As a mother she was all that most blessed word implies, and the impressions made by her love and care of them can never be effaced from the lives of these children now grown to womanhood.
Her Christian life has been one long season of unfaltering faith and abiding hope in Christ and His church, and with Daniel, God could trust to her the promise "Thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of thy days."
As a friend and neighbor she was always cheerful and sympathetic and especially so in befriending the old soldier and the cause of patriotism.
This is the story of a long life which has not finished, but in reality has just begun.
The funeral services were held yesterday afternoon the Methodist Episcopal Church at 1:30 p.m. and was very largely attended, with relatives and friends driving in from long distances to pay a last tribute to her memory. The service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. J. Sellard, assisted by Rev. R. Pacey. The body was laid to rest in the Brimfield Cemetery.
Brimfield News, March 28, 1912
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