HARRIET STARK COWARD DIES
Was Member of Family Identified With Wyoming Valley From Earliest Days of Its Settlement
Harriet Stark Coward died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fred R. Smith, 213 Pierce street, Kingston, yesterday morning at 6:45. She was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, on October 31, 1836, the daughter of James and Mary (Wagner) Stark, life-long residents of that place.
At the age of twenty-three years she married Thomas R. Coward, a native of Maryland, who preceded her in death some time ago. They resided at Baltimore, Md., for a number of years and subsequently removed to her native section and located at West Pittston, where he engaged in business.
In her younger years Mrs. Coward was a woman of striking personality, whose presence was at once noticed in any gathering; a woman who by reason of her amiability and charming ways made close and warm friends among those whom she came in contact; a woman of kindly heart and winning ways; and one in whom the coming of the later years of life still held true to that which was characteristic of her in her earlier days. She and her husband were communicants of the Trinity Episcopal church of West Pittston, to which she was loyal and true, and in which church she bore an active part until the burden of the oncoming years compelled her to lay aside its activities, but her faith and confidence in him in whom she trusted ever remained clear and fixed to the last. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. G. Korhler of Oshkosh, Wis., and Mrs. Fred R. Smith, of Kingston, also one brother, William Sheppard Stark—now residing in California and the last remaining child of a large family. She was a charter member of Dial Rock chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of West Pittston.
She came of a family identified the Wyoming Valley from the earliest days of its settlement before the Revolution, and which had for its emigrant ancestor one who fought in the Pequot War of 1637, and in the Narragansett War of 1675.
Her father, James Stark, was born in what was then known as Upper Wilkes-Barre township, Her grandfather, James Stark, came into the Wyoming Valley with his father, James Stark, prior to the Revolution, where he became a successful man of affairs, and where he died in 1777 leaving a widow and a large family of small children, the eldest of which was but seventeen years of age and a member of the Second Independent Company raised in Westmoreland for the defence of home and country.
The following year occurred the battle and Massacre of Wyoming, when his widow and children fled, through an unbroken wilderness infested with savage wild beasts and Indians, back to Pawlings, Dutchess county, N. Y., their old home town, where she and one of her children shortly afterward died from the, hardships and exposure of this heart-breaking experience.
Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 10:30 at 218 Pierce street, Kingston.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 13 Jun 1925)
Was Member of Family Identified With Wyoming Valley From Earliest Days of Its Settlement
Harriet Stark Coward died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fred R. Smith, 213 Pierce street, Kingston, yesterday morning at 6:45. She was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, on October 31, 1836, the daughter of James and Mary (Wagner) Stark, life-long residents of that place.
At the age of twenty-three years she married Thomas R. Coward, a native of Maryland, who preceded her in death some time ago. They resided at Baltimore, Md., for a number of years and subsequently removed to her native section and located at West Pittston, where he engaged in business.
In her younger years Mrs. Coward was a woman of striking personality, whose presence was at once noticed in any gathering; a woman who by reason of her amiability and charming ways made close and warm friends among those whom she came in contact; a woman of kindly heart and winning ways; and one in whom the coming of the later years of life still held true to that which was characteristic of her in her earlier days. She and her husband were communicants of the Trinity Episcopal church of West Pittston, to which she was loyal and true, and in which church she bore an active part until the burden of the oncoming years compelled her to lay aside its activities, but her faith and confidence in him in whom she trusted ever remained clear and fixed to the last. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. G. Korhler of Oshkosh, Wis., and Mrs. Fred R. Smith, of Kingston, also one brother, William Sheppard Stark—now residing in California and the last remaining child of a large family. She was a charter member of Dial Rock chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of West Pittston.
She came of a family identified the Wyoming Valley from the earliest days of its settlement before the Revolution, and which had for its emigrant ancestor one who fought in the Pequot War of 1637, and in the Narragansett War of 1675.
Her father, James Stark, was born in what was then known as Upper Wilkes-Barre township, Her grandfather, James Stark, came into the Wyoming Valley with his father, James Stark, prior to the Revolution, where he became a successful man of affairs, and where he died in 1777 leaving a widow and a large family of small children, the eldest of which was but seventeen years of age and a member of the Second Independent Company raised in Westmoreland for the defence of home and country.
The following year occurred the battle and Massacre of Wyoming, when his widow and children fled, through an unbroken wilderness infested with savage wild beasts and Indians, back to Pawlings, Dutchess county, N. Y., their old home town, where she and one of her children shortly afterward died from the, hardships and exposure of this heart-breaking experience.
Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 10:30 at 218 Pierce street, Kingston.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 13 Jun 1925)
HARRIET STARK COWARD DIES
Was Member of Family Identified With Wyoming Valley From Earliest Days of Its Settlement
Harriet Stark Coward died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fred R. Smith, 213 Pierce street, Kingston, yesterday morning at 6:45. She was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, on October 31, 1836, the daughter of James and Mary (Wagner) Stark, life-long residents of that place.
At the age of twenty-three years she married Thomas R. Coward, a native of Maryland, who preceded her in death some time ago. They resided at Baltimore, Md., for a number of years and subsequently removed to her native section and located at West Pittston, where he engaged in business.
In her younger years Mrs. Coward was a woman of striking personality, whose presence was at once noticed in any gathering; a woman who by reason of her amiability and charming ways made close and warm friends among those whom she came in contact; a woman of kindly heart and winning ways; and one in whom the coming of the later years of life still held true to that which was characteristic of her in her earlier days. She and her husband were communicants of the Trinity Episcopal church of West Pittston, to which she was loyal and true, and in which church she bore an active part until the burden of the oncoming years compelled her to lay aside its activities, but her faith and confidence in him in whom she trusted ever remained clear and fixed to the last. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. G. Korhler of Oshkosh, Wis., and Mrs. Fred R. Smith, of Kingston, also one brother, William Sheppard Stark—now residing in California and the last remaining child of a large family. She was a charter member of Dial Rock chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of West Pittston.
She came of a family identified the Wyoming Valley from the earliest days of its settlement before the Revolution, and which had for its emigrant ancestor one who fought in the Pequot War of 1637, and in the Narragansett War of 1675.
Her father, James Stark, was born in what was then known as Upper Wilkes-Barre township, Her grandfather, James Stark, came into the Wyoming Valley with his father, James Stark, prior to the Revolution, where he became a successful man of affairs, and where he died in 1777 leaving a widow and a large family of small children, the eldest of which was but seventeen years of age and a member of the Second Independent Company raised in Westmoreland for the defence of home and country.
The following year occurred the battle and Massacre of Wyoming, when his widow and children fled, through an unbroken wilderness infested with savage wild beasts and Indians, back to Pawlings, Dutchess county, N. Y., their old home town, where she and one of her children shortly afterward died from the, hardships and exposure of this heart-breaking experience.
Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 10:30 at 218 Pierce street, Kingston.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 13 Jun 1925)
Was Member of Family Identified With Wyoming Valley From Earliest Days of Its Settlement
Harriet Stark Coward died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Fred R. Smith, 213 Pierce street, Kingston, yesterday morning at 6:45. She was born in Plains township, Luzerne county, on October 31, 1836, the daughter of James and Mary (Wagner) Stark, life-long residents of that place.
At the age of twenty-three years she married Thomas R. Coward, a native of Maryland, who preceded her in death some time ago. They resided at Baltimore, Md., for a number of years and subsequently removed to her native section and located at West Pittston, where he engaged in business.
In her younger years Mrs. Coward was a woman of striking personality, whose presence was at once noticed in any gathering; a woman who by reason of her amiability and charming ways made close and warm friends among those whom she came in contact; a woman of kindly heart and winning ways; and one in whom the coming of the later years of life still held true to that which was characteristic of her in her earlier days. She and her husband were communicants of the Trinity Episcopal church of West Pittston, to which she was loyal and true, and in which church she bore an active part until the burden of the oncoming years compelled her to lay aside its activities, but her faith and confidence in him in whom she trusted ever remained clear and fixed to the last. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. G. Korhler of Oshkosh, Wis., and Mrs. Fred R. Smith, of Kingston, also one brother, William Sheppard Stark—now residing in California and the last remaining child of a large family. She was a charter member of Dial Rock chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution of West Pittston.
She came of a family identified the Wyoming Valley from the earliest days of its settlement before the Revolution, and which had for its emigrant ancestor one who fought in the Pequot War of 1637, and in the Narragansett War of 1675.
Her father, James Stark, was born in what was then known as Upper Wilkes-Barre township, Her grandfather, James Stark, came into the Wyoming Valley with his father, James Stark, prior to the Revolution, where he became a successful man of affairs, and where he died in 1777 leaving a widow and a large family of small children, the eldest of which was but seventeen years of age and a member of the Second Independent Company raised in Westmoreland for the defence of home and country.
The following year occurred the battle and Massacre of Wyoming, when his widow and children fled, through an unbroken wilderness infested with savage wild beasts and Indians, back to Pawlings, Dutchess county, N. Y., their old home town, where she and one of her children shortly afterward died from the, hardships and exposure of this heart-breaking experience.
Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 10:30 at 218 Pierce street, Kingston.
(Wilkes-Barre Record, 13 Jun 1925)
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