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|f|^ P'-V. OMtnary;7Died, at Isadora, Mo., May 21st, 1882; Armin ta Roberts, wife of Bov. WilHam lloborta, aged 62 years, 6months and 4 days.’They; : lived togothor as husband and wifo for forty years. Brother Roberts preceded lior to tho bolter land five months and twonly-oight days. They had eight children j all aro .living but ono ; that ono died when an infant. Sister Boberts was bom in Adams county, Ohio. They wore married in Jackson county, Iowa, in tho fall of 1859. Sho was con vorted and j oinod the M, S3. Church in 1837, and continued a faithful member of tho same to the close of her life.Tho writer first mot hot* and family in tho fall of 1847, as ho thou had just Mentored upon his first circuit, where ho f I received a welcome from Brother and (. Sistor Roberta that ho will never forget. Being young and discon raged I thoy imparted to mo words of wisdom; j sympathy amloncouragomont, just such as I needed, and tho absence of which I sometimes think I would Imvo failed, g | Sistor Roberts was kind and gentle .tin hot1 disposition and in her Christian j. walk. Her last hours wcro full of spiritual light and comfort, frees from I, doubt as to her ontoring her Bather's f house, whore she would soon sue and onjoy tho mansion prepared for hor. May tho power of Christ, through (j I whom sho gloriously triumphs, abide with the bereaved relatives, whoso loss is certainly hor eternal gain. The writer proached her funeral at tho Plnttc-villo church to n largo number, both old and young, who deeply sympathized with tho friends and relatives of the bereaved, saying “Gone but not Forgotten,” Tost, Phil. 1:21.S. Fa it now.
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Taylor County Republican
Bedford, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 30, 1882
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