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OBITUARY
Mrs. Matilda Adams
Limerick News
Mrs. Adams, one of the "old settlers", Dover
Township, (west side), died at her residence, three miles south of Limerick,
Saturday morning, at 3 o'clock. She was a devoted Christian and her last
days were "calm as a summer's ray." She was about 75. She resided with her
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Proutzman. Funeral by Pastor Widney on
Sunday, at 1 o'clock, from Psalms XXIII. Burial at Mason Cemetery.
Additional particulars hereafter.
(The Bureau County Republican, Princeton,
Illinois, Apr. 30, 1874, pg. 1,
submitted by Shirley Beams Simmons)
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South of Limerick
Death has taken one of our oldest and best
friends, mother Adams. She resided for years where she died and her remains
were carried to a cemetery near the timber. She was in her 76th year. She
left many children to mourn her loss.
Matilda died at about three o'clock on a Friday
morning at her residence. Her funeral was preached by Pastor Widney from
Psalms XXIII on Sunday.
Pastor A. H. Widney wrote that Mother Adams was
a very acceptable member of the Limerick Church and that he had visited her
the day before her death finding her resting confidently with her well-worn
Bible laying on the stand near her bed and opened at a place that seemed
more than usually worn, Psalms XXIII. He says that some of her children "are
following her footsteps in the Christian life, and others, as we hope, are
being inclined thereto."
David and Matilda Adams are both buried in Mason
Cemetery, Dover, Illinois, an early pioneer cemetery set back in the woods
on a narrow winding side road about four miles North West of Dover. Their
tall, sandstone tombstones stand beside each other between and beneath two
lovely pine trees. The markers read as shown:
MATILDA
Wife of
David Adams
Died
April 25, 1874
Aged 75 years
DAVID ADAMS
Died
Mar 31, 1856
Aged 59 Yrs.
3 mos. 19 ds.
(The Bureau County Republican, Princeton,
Illinois, May 7, 1874, pg. 1,
submitted by Shirley Beams Simmons) |