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MRS. M. A. HOAG, AN OLD PIONEER, PASSESShe Was Kvr * Sml^r IVum a Ite'Urttt «t TU* l it*.Luella M'nlctm Hoag, a daughter I of Bailey and Abigail Walcott was ; liorn in lirunville. Wis., Sept. 24, 1847. j Wheu I:'.it a little child she came to ! Juwa with her purents, who settled upon a la mi a short distance east of Strawberry Point. Her education was obtained mostly through the trials and tribulations of the old lime district school, although at a later period a pleasant home was given her by her highly esteemed sister, .Mrs. Carrie A.. It aw sou which enabled her to perfect herself in higher school work as a teacher, a vocation she followed for a number of years in the vicinity of Strawberry Point.During this period of pupil and teacher she became acquainted with Marion A. Hoag, who being engaged in the same line of work enabled them to subtly weave the woof of friendship into the warp of a finer fabric which has endured so pleasantly through many years. They were married Oct. 12:h, ISO'S. Thirty years of this married life was passed within the old home where these sad services were held and but for the sustaining power of the Infinite Father, endurance- would be futile. Oct. 1st,1 f*01 tlipy reilioved to 0e 1 weiii, Iowa, where they remained till Dec. J si, 1300. when they again moved, this time to Cedar Rapids, la., at which piuce they have since resided.The claim of sicknefts came upon our dear wife, mother, grandma. May 3rd, 190S, and from that period till the passing over, which occurred Sept. 3rd, 1910, the claim could not be dispelled. From this union were born three sons and five daughters, two of whom passed on in infancy. Those surviving and all present are Wylie \V„ of Cedar Rapids, la.; Mrs. Ruby Roe, of Oeiwein, la.; Mrs. Pearl Steinhilber, of Strawberry Point, la.; E. \V. (Ted), of Mackay, Idaho; Mrs. Nellie Marsh and Mrs. Carrie Anderson, of Cedar Rapids. Besides these ten grandchildren will miss their dear grandma. Two brothers. War-ien. of Lyons. Kansas, and Marcellus, of Centralia, Washington, also two half sisters. Mrs. Carrie A. Rauson, of Strawberry Point, la., and Mrs. L, M'. Preuiit, of Townsend, Montana, survive her.She was generous, good and kind, always thoughtful of others, and her life was one of continual devotion and self sacrifice to her home and family. There is no death, what 1'seems” so is but transition. Dear children and all, think of mother as only having stepped into another room, in the Infinite Father's mansion where the sense of suffering ceases and progress is assured. She awaits our coming.Mrs. Houg dwelt in our midst for eight years and during that time made many good and true friends wlio will mourn her loss. She was a good neighbor, unselfish, always kind and thoughtful of others and doing her duty however hard the burdens were to bear. The remains were brought to Strawberry Point on Thursday a. m, and the funeral was from the old home at 10:30. Many were the beautiful floral offerings and the mixed quartette rendered the sweetest of music. Rev. Nr. Newton of the Universal ist church, of Cedar Rapids, assisted by Rev. Piper, of the M. E. church of Strawberry Point, officiated. taking his text from John 14th “In My Father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would hove- told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will some again, and receive you unto myself that where I am, there ye may be also. interment was made in the Strawberry Point cemetery.Election and Campaign »ws Free From Prep ii dice.The Register and Leader will publish the news of the campaign andRECLILea mi 1Tht prism Couni fumii; short at Mt.Mis tend her ]. ago t board were in tb day lt;Rev. Unioicnt o Verm met on’v brick ago. : nisho had i c 1 nd I ami i an id yes to: Mr. 1 and (his lt;main servi clapsMr uctiv. Meth Sund teach stew i chur i Peek less \ ■in it tion : ing i ciatii L. Ato WiRefrtladicileaguout tlleiscAltaArgo-To i stand chror Kidni of it healf ley’s said Conn son.REtAt »purAll from nois, Color union iment enrol! This histoi existt of till so h2 a rei forty since the o from of tb catali cornr; migh1 Howe t.o at tieth
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