CLODFELTER, Eliza Guntle
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 4 May 1894
Death, that dreaded messenger of sorrow, has again invaded a Jackson township (Fountain county) home and enlisted with the angel band one dear, loved and idolized wife, mother, grandmother and esteemed friend and neighbor, who in name was Mrs. Peter Clodfelter.
Eliza Guntle was the daughter of John and Esther Guntle and was born in Preble county, Ohio, December 23 1823. Died April 26, 1894.
In the year 1831 she, with her parents, removed from Ohio to Franklin township, Montgomery county, Indiana, where she grew to womanhood amid the full confidence and love of her friends. She was united in marriage to Henry Bundy about the year 1842, and lived near Darlington for several years after the death of her consort which occurred about the year 1851. This union was blessed with four children, of which only two grew to maturity, viz: Mary Jane, deceased wife of David Parkinson, and Jefferson Bundy, who survives her. About the year 1854 she was married to Peter Clodfelter, and removed to his farm in Jackson township, and has since lived on the farm in which she died. Three children were born to them, viz: Mrs. Wm. Osborn, of Star City, Ind., and George Clodfelter, who resides on the home place. She was the grandmother of seventeen living children and the step grandmother of nine more. All these loved her with an incomprehensible love and devotion. She confessed Christ and became a member of the Evangelic Lutheran church prior to 1846 (exact dates cannot be obtained at this sad hour) and has since remained faithful to her confession, a firm believer in the teachings of her favorite denomination, a true Christian --one taught continually by her daily life--much more in that manner then by words. We would to God that many would model after her life in this respect.
She was the last of what was known as the "old Guntle family." All of her ancestors, brothers and sisters have preceded her to the heavenly realms of bliss and will gladly welcome her into the family of God's children, to whom affliction is unknown and where death enters not.
By her departure the family loses a loving wife, mother, impartial stepmother, a kind and caressing grandmother. They are not the only ones who will suffer loss by her death, but her neighbors will lose a helpful friend accommodating and sociable—one ever ready to administer to the needs and comforts of the afflicted and distressed, and a sympathizer with the mourning. It is not necessary for us make elaborated comments upon the life of our deceased relative, as she has fought a good fight, lived a Christian life, and has lived so that we feel assured that she has entered the home of the righteous.
A large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends followed the remains to the Lutheran cemetery, near Wallace, Saturday, where they were laid to rest by Undertaker Birdcell, of Waynetown. --- thanks to Kim H