Belle Plaine News
Belle Plaine, Kansas
Thursday, March 12, 1914
page 1
Obituary of Mrs. S.L. Ayers.
Delia Jane Harkrider was born near Woodford Co., Ill., March 5, 1857. Died at her home near Prairie Garden March 1, 1914, aged 56 years, 11 months and 26 days.
In her young womanhood she obeyed the gospel. She was baptized by John Lindsay, a professor in Eureka College, Ill., a very able preacher.
At the age of 18 years she moved with her parents from Lecor to Weston, Ill., where on the 14th of March, 1876, she was married to Samuel L. Ayers. This coming 14th day of March would have rounded out 38 years of married life. How brief that time, yet how full of meaning to a mother heart.
Her own mother, now aged 90 years is living at Danville, Ill. Of a family of five daughters, she is the last one to go home. She has three brothers yet living.
She was the mother of ten children. Two boys died in infancy. The other children are A.V., of Peck; Rose, Mrs. Jones, who died at Waco, Kans., Nov. 30, 1904; Florence, Mrs. Sence, who has been privileged to live close neighbor to her mother since her marriage; Ennis, whose home is also in Peck; Edna, who has been at home and had had the loving service of the burden of the home since her mother's illness; Ivan, who has resided hear his mother, since his marriage; Harry, who has scarcely been gone from home enough to realize that he was away; Ray is the youngest and at home, and will only now realize that his mother has slipped away from him forever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayers came to Kansas March 1878. That was before there was a railroad in Sumner Co. That was in the days of toil and hardships. That was when failure of crops meant pinching times, for there was no reserve from previous years. It is no wonder that she was not able to resist disease, for her family testifies that she often toiled beyond her strength.
After spending two years in this neighborhood they moved in 1881 on to a claim out on Chicaskia in Harper Co., where they remained for six years. In 1887 they moved to the homestead at Prairie Garden, which has since been their home. Here their children have grown to manhood and womanhood and several of them married and have homes of their own.
Mrs. Ayers loved her home and her family. She, like any good mother was always concerned for the welfare of her children. There was nothing too hard for her to do for them. She was a good neighbor, she having a large family, was so engrossed with home duties that she found but little time to spend in her neighbors homes, but she always greeted her friends warmly and made them welcome in her own home.
She was a lover of flowers, and I believe that if she is looking from the windows of her spirit home today, she is looking approvingly upon this manifestation of loving hearts here. Passing by her home in season her love for flowers were in evidence and her flower beds are even now ready not for her planting but for some loved member of her home.
The bay window in her sick room was filled with beautiful flowering plants to cheer her during those shut in days. It has almost been three years since she became ill but the past two years has been full of suffering for her. Just last week she called her physician and demanded of him her true condition. She realized that she was failing all the while. When her doctor told her she could not get well she called her children about her and gave them her final messages. How precious will be the memory of that last day of conscious planning to them.
Husband, the greetings of that companion has gone out of your home. The road will be lonely, now. Children that loving council and tender affection has gone from the home that you so often visited to receive you. You will miss her: cherish her memory, obey her precepts, emulate her examples of good and virtue. All of you look to God for direction in your joys and sorrows. He alone is able to pour balm of Gilead into your sorrowing hearts.
Funeral services were held at Council Hill church, the sermon being delivered by Elder M. Piatt. The services were attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends. The burial took place in the nearby cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Belle Plaine, Kansas
Thursday, March 12, 1914
page 1
Obituary of Mrs. S.L. Ayers.
Delia Jane Harkrider was born near Woodford Co., Ill., March 5, 1857. Died at her home near Prairie Garden March 1, 1914, aged 56 years, 11 months and 26 days.
In her young womanhood she obeyed the gospel. She was baptized by John Lindsay, a professor in Eureka College, Ill., a very able preacher.
At the age of 18 years she moved with her parents from Lecor to Weston, Ill., where on the 14th of March, 1876, she was married to Samuel L. Ayers. This coming 14th day of March would have rounded out 38 years of married life. How brief that time, yet how full of meaning to a mother heart.
Her own mother, now aged 90 years is living at Danville, Ill. Of a family of five daughters, she is the last one to go home. She has three brothers yet living.
She was the mother of ten children. Two boys died in infancy. The other children are A.V., of Peck; Rose, Mrs. Jones, who died at Waco, Kans., Nov. 30, 1904; Florence, Mrs. Sence, who has been privileged to live close neighbor to her mother since her marriage; Ennis, whose home is also in Peck; Edna, who has been at home and had had the loving service of the burden of the home since her mother's illness; Ivan, who has resided hear his mother, since his marriage; Harry, who has scarcely been gone from home enough to realize that he was away; Ray is the youngest and at home, and will only now realize that his mother has slipped away from him forever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayers came to Kansas March 1878. That was before there was a railroad in Sumner Co. That was in the days of toil and hardships. That was when failure of crops meant pinching times, for there was no reserve from previous years. It is no wonder that she was not able to resist disease, for her family testifies that she often toiled beyond her strength.
After spending two years in this neighborhood they moved in 1881 on to a claim out on Chicaskia in Harper Co., where they remained for six years. In 1887 they moved to the homestead at Prairie Garden, which has since been their home. Here their children have grown to manhood and womanhood and several of them married and have homes of their own.
Mrs. Ayers loved her home and her family. She, like any good mother was always concerned for the welfare of her children. There was nothing too hard for her to do for them. She was a good neighbor, she having a large family, was so engrossed with home duties that she found but little time to spend in her neighbors homes, but she always greeted her friends warmly and made them welcome in her own home.
She was a lover of flowers, and I believe that if she is looking from the windows of her spirit home today, she is looking approvingly upon this manifestation of loving hearts here. Passing by her home in season her love for flowers were in evidence and her flower beds are even now ready not for her planting but for some loved member of her home.
The bay window in her sick room was filled with beautiful flowering plants to cheer her during those shut in days. It has almost been three years since she became ill but the past two years has been full of suffering for her. Just last week she called her physician and demanded of him her true condition. She realized that she was failing all the while. When her doctor told her she could not get well she called her children about her and gave them her final messages. How precious will be the memory of that last day of conscious planning to them.
Husband, the greetings of that companion has gone out of your home. The road will be lonely, now. Children that loving council and tender affection has gone from the home that you so often visited to receive you. You will miss her: cherish her memory, obey her precepts, emulate her examples of good and virtue. All of you look to God for direction in your joys and sorrows. He alone is able to pour balm of Gilead into your sorrowing hearts.
Funeral services were held at Council Hill church, the sermon being delivered by Elder M. Piatt. The services were attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends. The burial took place in the nearby cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Belle Plaine News
Belle Plaine, Kansas
Thursday, March 12, 1914
page 1
Obituary of Mrs. S.L. Ayers.
Delia Jane Harkrider was born near Woodford Co., Ill., March 5, 1857. Died at her home near Prairie Garden March 1, 1914, aged 56 years, 11 months and 26 days.
In her young womanhood she obeyed the gospel. She was baptized by John Lindsay, a professor in Eureka College, Ill., a very able preacher.
At the age of 18 years she moved with her parents from Lecor to Weston, Ill., where on the 14th of March, 1876, she was married to Samuel L. Ayers. This coming 14th day of March would have rounded out 38 years of married life. How brief that time, yet how full of meaning to a mother heart.
Her own mother, now aged 90 years is living at Danville, Ill. Of a family of five daughters, she is the last one to go home. She has three brothers yet living.
She was the mother of ten children. Two boys died in infancy. The other children are A.V., of Peck; Rose, Mrs. Jones, who died at Waco, Kans., Nov. 30, 1904; Florence, Mrs. Sence, who has been privileged to live close neighbor to her mother since her marriage; Ennis, whose home is also in Peck; Edna, who has been at home and had had the loving service of the burden of the home since her mother's illness; Ivan, who has resided hear his mother, since his marriage; Harry, who has scarcely been gone from home enough to realize that he was away; Ray is the youngest and at home, and will only now realize that his mother has slipped away from him forever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayers came to Kansas March 1878. That was before there was a railroad in Sumner Co. That was in the days of toil and hardships. That was when failure of crops meant pinching times, for there was no reserve from previous years. It is no wonder that she was not able to resist disease, for her family testifies that she often toiled beyond her strength.
After spending two years in this neighborhood they moved in 1881 on to a claim out on Chicaskia in Harper Co., where they remained for six years. In 1887 they moved to the homestead at Prairie Garden, which has since been their home. Here their children have grown to manhood and womanhood and several of them married and have homes of their own.
Mrs. Ayers loved her home and her family. She, like any good mother was always concerned for the welfare of her children. There was nothing too hard for her to do for them. She was a good neighbor, she having a large family, was so engrossed with home duties that she found but little time to spend in her neighbors homes, but she always greeted her friends warmly and made them welcome in her own home.
She was a lover of flowers, and I believe that if she is looking from the windows of her spirit home today, she is looking approvingly upon this manifestation of loving hearts here. Passing by her home in season her love for flowers were in evidence and her flower beds are even now ready not for her planting but for some loved member of her home.
The bay window in her sick room was filled with beautiful flowering plants to cheer her during those shut in days. It has almost been three years since she became ill but the past two years has been full of suffering for her. Just last week she called her physician and demanded of him her true condition. She realized that she was failing all the while. When her doctor told her she could not get well she called her children about her and gave them her final messages. How precious will be the memory of that last day of conscious planning to them.
Husband, the greetings of that companion has gone out of your home. The road will be lonely, now. Children that loving council and tender affection has gone from the home that you so often visited to receive you. You will miss her: cherish her memory, obey her precepts, emulate her examples of good and virtue. All of you look to God for direction in your joys and sorrows. He alone is able to pour balm of Gilead into your sorrowing hearts.
Funeral services were held at Council Hill church, the sermon being delivered by Elder M. Piatt. The services were attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends. The burial took place in the nearby cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Belle Plaine, Kansas
Thursday, March 12, 1914
page 1
Obituary of Mrs. S.L. Ayers.
Delia Jane Harkrider was born near Woodford Co., Ill., March 5, 1857. Died at her home near Prairie Garden March 1, 1914, aged 56 years, 11 months and 26 days.
In her young womanhood she obeyed the gospel. She was baptized by John Lindsay, a professor in Eureka College, Ill., a very able preacher.
At the age of 18 years she moved with her parents from Lecor to Weston, Ill., where on the 14th of March, 1876, she was married to Samuel L. Ayers. This coming 14th day of March would have rounded out 38 years of married life. How brief that time, yet how full of meaning to a mother heart.
Her own mother, now aged 90 years is living at Danville, Ill. Of a family of five daughters, she is the last one to go home. She has three brothers yet living.
She was the mother of ten children. Two boys died in infancy. The other children are A.V., of Peck; Rose, Mrs. Jones, who died at Waco, Kans., Nov. 30, 1904; Florence, Mrs. Sence, who has been privileged to live close neighbor to her mother since her marriage; Ennis, whose home is also in Peck; Edna, who has been at home and had had the loving service of the burden of the home since her mother's illness; Ivan, who has resided hear his mother, since his marriage; Harry, who has scarcely been gone from home enough to realize that he was away; Ray is the youngest and at home, and will only now realize that his mother has slipped away from him forever.
Mr. and Mrs. Ayers came to Kansas March 1878. That was before there was a railroad in Sumner Co. That was in the days of toil and hardships. That was when failure of crops meant pinching times, for there was no reserve from previous years. It is no wonder that she was not able to resist disease, for her family testifies that she often toiled beyond her strength.
After spending two years in this neighborhood they moved in 1881 on to a claim out on Chicaskia in Harper Co., where they remained for six years. In 1887 they moved to the homestead at Prairie Garden, which has since been their home. Here their children have grown to manhood and womanhood and several of them married and have homes of their own.
Mrs. Ayers loved her home and her family. She, like any good mother was always concerned for the welfare of her children. There was nothing too hard for her to do for them. She was a good neighbor, she having a large family, was so engrossed with home duties that she found but little time to spend in her neighbors homes, but she always greeted her friends warmly and made them welcome in her own home.
She was a lover of flowers, and I believe that if she is looking from the windows of her spirit home today, she is looking approvingly upon this manifestation of loving hearts here. Passing by her home in season her love for flowers were in evidence and her flower beds are even now ready not for her planting but for some loved member of her home.
The bay window in her sick room was filled with beautiful flowering plants to cheer her during those shut in days. It has almost been three years since she became ill but the past two years has been full of suffering for her. Just last week she called her physician and demanded of him her true condition. She realized that she was failing all the while. When her doctor told her she could not get well she called her children about her and gave them her final messages. How precious will be the memory of that last day of conscious planning to them.
Husband, the greetings of that companion has gone out of your home. The road will be lonely, now. Children that loving council and tender affection has gone from the home that you so often visited to receive you. You will miss her: cherish her memory, obey her precepts, emulate her examples of good and virtue. All of you look to God for direction in your joys and sorrows. He alone is able to pour balm of Gilead into your sorrowing hearts.
Funeral services were held at Council Hill church, the sermon being delivered by Elder M. Piatt. The services were attended by a large crowd of sympathizing friends. The burial took place in the nearby cemetery.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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