Mrs. Eudora J. Jenkins, wife of Henry Jenkins, Esq., who departed this life at the residence of her father, Mr. Alfred Bixby, in Fairview Township, at day-break, of April 12, 1873, was born in St. Lawrence county, N.Y., October 14, 1873 [1844]. She was very happily married with the cordial congratulations of all her relatives and many friends, October 16, 1869, and in her pure spirit, fine intnition and large warm heart she enjoyed and realized the holy relations with her devoted husband and children which only such a woman can – although her life was saddened by the separation, for a time, which she experienced in the death of three infant children – almost within two years. Yet her fain in, and inspired knowledge of the future life, lifted the cloud of sorrow and shed upon her a flood of hope and peace seldom experienced by a mortal.
She passed to the Summer Land with a vision of heaven before her, and a halo of bliss around her which overcame and made her oblivious to all pain and trouble of the earthly sphere.
Earth has no monument so justly dear
To souls like hers in purity arrayed,
Never to fade.
Death, but a brighter halo round thee throws;
Thy name, thy soul, alike have spurned the clod;
Rest thee in God.
(Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, April 19, 1873)
Note: 1 of Eudora's children (Anna Katrina) is in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Note: At least one of Eudora's 3 children (Anna Katrina) is buried in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Writes of Trip to Estherville
“Doc” Bixby, dean of columnists in these section of these United State, in his “Daily Drift,” of the Lincoln State Journal, wrote of his visit to Iowa for the Estherville picnic after his return home. Excerpt below (for the whole reprint, look at the paper.)
Sister Dora was married to Henry Jenkins in 1869. I lived in her home and went to school in Estherville for about two years. I visited the cemetery where she sleeps in the lot next to where her two sweet infants are buried. She died of a broken heart and the visit to the graves called to mind this much of a poem she wrote the summer after the little ones were buried:
“Weary and worn, and heart-sick,
Bowed to the earth with grief;
Hoping, and earnest praying
That death would bring relief.
Two little lives that were dearer
Than all the world beside
Had flown and my arms were empty,
And mother-love scarcely tried.” (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 21, 1933)
She passed to the Summer Land with a vision of heaven before her, and a halo of bliss around her which overcame and made her oblivious to all pain and trouble of the earthly sphere.
Earth has no monument so justly dear
To souls like hers in purity arrayed,
Never to fade.
Death, but a brighter halo round thee throws;
Thy name, thy soul, alike have spurned the clod;
Rest thee in God.
(Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, April 19, 1873)
Note: 1 of Eudora's children (Anna Katrina) is in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Note: At least one of Eudora's 3 children (Anna Katrina) is buried in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Writes of Trip to Estherville
“Doc” Bixby, dean of columnists in these section of these United State, in his “Daily Drift,” of the Lincoln State Journal, wrote of his visit to Iowa for the Estherville picnic after his return home. Excerpt below (for the whole reprint, look at the paper.)
Sister Dora was married to Henry Jenkins in 1869. I lived in her home and went to school in Estherville for about two years. I visited the cemetery where she sleeps in the lot next to where her two sweet infants are buried. She died of a broken heart and the visit to the graves called to mind this much of a poem she wrote the summer after the little ones were buried:
“Weary and worn, and heart-sick,
Bowed to the earth with grief;
Hoping, and earnest praying
That death would bring relief.
Two little lives that were dearer
Than all the world beside
Had flown and my arms were empty,
And mother-love scarcely tried.” (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 21, 1933)
Mrs. Eudora J. Jenkins, wife of Henry Jenkins, Esq., who departed this life at the residence of her father, Mr. Alfred Bixby, in Fairview Township, at day-break, of April 12, 1873, was born in St. Lawrence county, N.Y., October 14, 1873 [1844]. She was very happily married with the cordial congratulations of all her relatives and many friends, October 16, 1869, and in her pure spirit, fine intnition and large warm heart she enjoyed and realized the holy relations with her devoted husband and children which only such a woman can – although her life was saddened by the separation, for a time, which she experienced in the death of three infant children – almost within two years. Yet her fain in, and inspired knowledge of the future life, lifted the cloud of sorrow and shed upon her a flood of hope and peace seldom experienced by a mortal.
She passed to the Summer Land with a vision of heaven before her, and a halo of bliss around her which overcame and made her oblivious to all pain and trouble of the earthly sphere.
Earth has no monument so justly dear
To souls like hers in purity arrayed,
Never to fade.
Death, but a brighter halo round thee throws;
Thy name, thy soul, alike have spurned the clod;
Rest thee in God.
(Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, April 19, 1873)
Note: 1 of Eudora's children (Anna Katrina) is in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Note: At least one of Eudora's 3 children (Anna Katrina) is buried in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Writes of Trip to Estherville
“Doc” Bixby, dean of columnists in these section of these United State, in his “Daily Drift,” of the Lincoln State Journal, wrote of his visit to Iowa for the Estherville picnic after his return home. Excerpt below (for the whole reprint, look at the paper.)
Sister Dora was married to Henry Jenkins in 1869. I lived in her home and went to school in Estherville for about two years. I visited the cemetery where she sleeps in the lot next to where her two sweet infants are buried. She died of a broken heart and the visit to the graves called to mind this much of a poem she wrote the summer after the little ones were buried:
“Weary and worn, and heart-sick,
Bowed to the earth with grief;
Hoping, and earnest praying
That death would bring relief.
Two little lives that were dearer
Than all the world beside
Had flown and my arms were empty,
And mother-love scarcely tried.” (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 21, 1933)
She passed to the Summer Land with a vision of heaven before her, and a halo of bliss around her which overcame and made her oblivious to all pain and trouble of the earthly sphere.
Earth has no monument so justly dear
To souls like hers in purity arrayed,
Never to fade.
Death, but a brighter halo round thee throws;
Thy name, thy soul, alike have spurned the clod;
Rest thee in God.
(Northern Vindicator, Estherville, IA, April 19, 1873)
Note: 1 of Eudora's children (Anna Katrina) is in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Note: At least one of Eudora's 3 children (Anna Katrina) is buried in a marked grave in East Side Cemetery
Writes of Trip to Estherville
“Doc” Bixby, dean of columnists in these section of these United State, in his “Daily Drift,” of the Lincoln State Journal, wrote of his visit to Iowa for the Estherville picnic after his return home. Excerpt below (for the whole reprint, look at the paper.)
Sister Dora was married to Henry Jenkins in 1869. I lived in her home and went to school in Estherville for about two years. I visited the cemetery where she sleeps in the lot next to where her two sweet infants are buried. She died of a broken heart and the visit to the graves called to mind this much of a poem she wrote the summer after the little ones were buried:
“Weary and worn, and heart-sick,
Bowed to the earth with grief;
Hoping, and earnest praying
That death would bring relief.
Two little lives that were dearer
Than all the world beside
Had flown and my arms were empty,
And mother-love scarcely tried.” (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, September 21, 1933)
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