Steuben -Republican                  25 May 1921
        
        SUSAN LUCINDA ( SPANGLE ) PARSONS   ( 23 Jan 1846 - 8 May 1921 )
        Susan Lucinda Spangle was born in Seneca County, Ohio, January 23,
1846. 
She came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Spangle, to Steuben County,
and settled in the vicinity marked by the Pleasant View Church.  She lived
all her life in the county with the exception of four years in Kansas and
two years in Michigan.  She was married to Seymour Parsons in January,
1861, and to them were born six children, now Mary J. Ring, Susan Fisk,
Sydney Parsons, Allie Casebeer, Lula Gleason.  One daughter died when two
months old.  Her life was that of the farm in which she found her sphere of
usefulness and gave of her best for the building of the home and the
success of the farm work.  On the death of her husband, she made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. Allie Casebeer, at whose home she died on Sunday
morning, May 8, 1921, in the 76th year of her age.  She had been in ill
health for a long time bearing with patience her suffering, and longing for
the relief which the hand of death brings to those whose pain seems too
great to be borne. 
        She will be greatly missed and the wisdom and experience which came
from
her life will be a factor that nothing can replace.  She leaves her four
daughters, eleven grand-children and four great-grand-children, and two
brothers.  Funeral services were held at the Lake Gage Church Tuesday, May
10th, Rev. John Humfreys minister. 

Submitted by J.A. Childers
jeanannchilders@gmail.com