Margaret Ann SLINKARD

Margaret Ann SLINKARD, widow of Henry J. SLINKARD, deceased, died at her old home, the residence of her son-in-law, J. D. MOORE, Feb. 14, 1889, aged seventy-seven years.

Mrs. SLINKARD was one of the pioneer women of Indiana. She was born in Ohio in 1812. Her father, Jacob STORMS, came to Indiana when his daughter, Margaret A., was very young.

While quite young she was joined in wedlock to Mr. SLINKARD, with whom she lived in peace and happiness for about forty-five years.

She attached herself to the Evanglectical Lutheran church at an early age, in which she continued a faithful and consistent member until her death. She was always found in her place in church when convenient and her health would permit.

She was taken violently sick on Tuesday, Feb. 12, and on Thursday evening, Feb. 13, was compelled to surrender her frail body to the destroyer and her soul winged its way to the mansions of eternal rest, to reap the rewards for her labors while her in this work of pain and sorrow, to meet her husband and children, from whom she had been bereaved years ago, to rejoice with them in unspeakable joy throughout eternity, and to receive a crown laid up for her by Christ himself, which was laid up in reservation for her at the end of the race.

Mrs. SLINKARD was the mother of thirteen children and the grandmother of sixty-five grand-children and twenty great grand-children. She leaves behind her to mourn her loss eleven children–Moses, Nathan, William, Frederick, and Alexander SLINKARD, Mrs. Eliza SHIELDS, Mary A. WESNER, Joann WEBSTER, and Martha and Amanda SLINKARD; forty-nine grand-children, nineteen great grandchildren, besides many other relatives and friends.

On Friday, Feb. 15, her remains were conveyed to the Newberry Cemetery, and there in the presence of a large audience were consigned to the dust from which they sprang.

Mrs. SLINKARD was an unassuming, estimable lady, a kind mother and a devoted christian. She leaves behind her examples of pious habits which, if strictly adhered to by her children and brethren and sisters in the church with whom she has been long associated, will guide them in obtaining the same rewards and blessings which she is now enjoying.
E. C. M.

THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, VOL. XX., NO. 49, Page 2, Column 6, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday, February 22, 1889, "OBITUARY"

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