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residence of^ Iwv soiiMnrJawj -^v B, in*r».v '{■};-: i•••:'#Uiirii«liin:' 'Ml'S.- oIIoovct- iif \Jackso.i;^m!islnpr- Mfe Muiyllinkle, %id jfe-ycaro, G moiiths.and 8 days.' . ■•. Mother Hinkle was born in Pendletoncounty,.'Virginia, - oh the 20th of* Sopr tember, 1784, nearly one hundred yearsI . _ * ■■ n n - ••*! • •• ' . P • #iAII 'ago, her life .forming ono of .those ‘v cpn-neoting links, ’now become riirc^ wmcliunited the present century with the last;She was married in -1807 to AbrahamS'!1w•!-IllteftteciriiEiiiiiogHinkle, with whom she removed in 1830 16 Illinois. In 1836 she roinpved to Lee county in this State and in 18o4 removed to Taylor county where she _re: sided up to the time of her death. She united with the M. E.'church at the ago of twenty-four and ‘ continued a worthyand faithful member until the last. Shewas the mother of'elevcn children, seven boys and four girls ; all of whom lived to manhood and womanhood except two, and fivo of whom still survive. Her funeral sermon was preached by her pastor, the llev. T. P. Newland, from v Rev. 14, 13, after which her remains I were interred in the Forest Grove Coin- I etery, being followed thither by a large e concourse of friends. 11nIsAfter the foregoing was in type the following tribute wus handed us by a | 'ifriend of the deceased :Died, April 7, 1882, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. B. B. Hoover, in ( Jackson township, Mrs. Mary Hinkle, i in her 98th year. The deceased, Mary Harper, wns ‘born in Pendleton county, IVa., Sept. 29, 1784; was married toAbraham llinkle in 1806, emigratingto Illinois in 1829. Her life at tjio foot.of the Alleghenies endowed her with the courage and fortitude necessary • for a n frontier life; as in bravery she excelled; so in her trust of the v’Suprome Being Who .directed. her way. With her family she removed to Lee county, Iowa, in 1830 ; to Taylor county in 1854, she and husband to-live with their youngest daughter,-Mrs. Mary Hoover, where grandpa died April 7,1873, in his 87thpear, leaving grandma to patiently and rjuietly breathe her life away on the same day of the same month after a lapse of 9 pears. She was the mother of eleven shildren,' seven boys and four girls, all jxcept two reaching manhood and womanhood,, five of whom are now living. She lived to see four generations of her lescendants. Uniting with the Method-st church in 1808, she remained a corn iistent and devoted Christian until her leath, leaving us a bright, example, reminding us that ‘‘They may rest, from heir labours; ,nml their works do follow hem. . K. H
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Taylor County Republican
Bedford, Iowa, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1882
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