From "The Clay County Sun", Clay Center, Clay county, Nebraska:
MRS. E. M. HAND
(Obituary)
With the mother instinct that had led her all her life, Mrs. Hand had taken thoughtful care of her family all day long and had sent each out about tasks that called them; then she turned to herself and went out into the unseen to prepare a place and make comfortable as only a mothers hand can. As wife and mother she had lived a life of the most loving service to those that God save her the privilege of lavishing her mother love upon.
Susan Priscila, the daughter of John W. and Ellen (Cline) Roberts, was born at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa, February 10th, 1858 and folded the garment of earthly life at the close of the day, February 5th, 1928, within five days of her sixty-eighth birthday. When a little child the nation called her father into army service where he paid the supreme sacrifice as a soldier in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. During the days of the reconstruction she and her mother battled most heroically to win the necessities and comforts of life. On March 20 1873, Susan Priscilla Roberts and Elijah M. Hand embarked in the great voyage of matrimony. Each had undying faith in one another and two children that they were started on that long journey of almost fifty-five years of happy married life. Not long after the marriage vows had been taken the boy husband came to this county and filed on a claim. About a year later the husband gathered his earthly possessions in his lumber wagon bade his wife goodbye and started for his claim. A short month or so after his journey had been completed his wife joined him on the homestead in Marshall township, Clay County, Nebrasa. Here they wrested form the wilderness the necessities of life, built a home and reared a family of six girls and five boys. Death claimed Ernest, Fay and Lucy in infancy and Cora, who had become Mrs. Edward Hoyt, in 1918. The living children are Ella Hoyt, Fairfield, Mrs. Stella Kerr, Lamar, Colo., Frank, Morrfield, Mrs. Bessie Linden, Mitchell, Homer, Clay Center, Joe, Kellogg, Idaho, and Roy at Hastings. These children with thirty one grand children, one grandson paid a soldiers sacrifice in France, twenty great grand children, her half sister and husband join in praising her and calling her blessed. An own sister had preceeded her in death. Mother Hand's chief ambition was to give her children the comforts of a home such as she in her childhood had been denied although she longed for it so much. For this reason if for no other she was not so interested in the social life of the community. The fraternity of the Royal Neighbors offered a financial consideration that would be a help in trouble and smooth the path for the family should the hand of death take her from the embrace of those she so loyally loved.
She was not unmindful of the plea of her Savour, for a number of ago she confessed her belief in His cause and became a member of the church. A large famly with many duties as a mother and as her husband has been afflicted with a chronic trouble, Mrs. Hand has not had the privilege of a full fellowship of attendance on church services yet she was always interested in the cause of her Master and helped in all ways that she found possible. For thirty seven years the Hands strove to make the homestead beautiful and a home of happiness. When strength began to fail and the children were ready to take the responsibility of life for themselves Father and Mother moved from the farm to Clay Center and for the last seventeen years have made our city their home.
As our sister had grown into the hearts of her family so has she grown into the hearts of those who have known her best. Her passing will not blot her memory from her friends hearts but we feel that her loving service to her family and acquaintances has only been a fore shadow of the welcome and affection that will greet her in the life to come. Many miss her here and may many greet her in the land of purity and eternal joy.
--Her Pastor
MRS. E. M. HAND
(Obituary)
With the mother instinct that had led her all her life, Mrs. Hand had taken thoughtful care of her family all day long and had sent each out about tasks that called them; then she turned to herself and went out into the unseen to prepare a place and make comfortable as only a mothers hand can. As wife and mother she had lived a life of the most loving service to those that God save her the privilege of lavishing her mother love upon.
Susan Priscila, the daughter of John W. and Ellen (Cline) Roberts, was born at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa, February 10th, 1858 and folded the garment of earthly life at the close of the day, February 5th, 1928, within five days of her sixty-eighth birthday. When a little child the nation called her father into army service where he paid the supreme sacrifice as a soldier in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. During the days of the reconstruction she and her mother battled most heroically to win the necessities and comforts of life. On March 20 1873, Susan Priscilla Roberts and Elijah M. Hand embarked in the great voyage of matrimony. Each had undying faith in one another and two children that they were started on that long journey of almost fifty-five years of happy married life. Not long after the marriage vows had been taken the boy husband came to this county and filed on a claim. About a year later the husband gathered his earthly possessions in his lumber wagon bade his wife goodbye and started for his claim. A short month or so after his journey had been completed his wife joined him on the homestead in Marshall township, Clay County, Nebrasa. Here they wrested form the wilderness the necessities of life, built a home and reared a family of six girls and five boys. Death claimed Ernest, Fay and Lucy in infancy and Cora, who had become Mrs. Edward Hoyt, in 1918. The living children are Ella Hoyt, Fairfield, Mrs. Stella Kerr, Lamar, Colo., Frank, Morrfield, Mrs. Bessie Linden, Mitchell, Homer, Clay Center, Joe, Kellogg, Idaho, and Roy at Hastings. These children with thirty one grand children, one grandson paid a soldiers sacrifice in France, twenty great grand children, her half sister and husband join in praising her and calling her blessed. An own sister had preceeded her in death. Mother Hand's chief ambition was to give her children the comforts of a home such as she in her childhood had been denied although she longed for it so much. For this reason if for no other she was not so interested in the social life of the community. The fraternity of the Royal Neighbors offered a financial consideration that would be a help in trouble and smooth the path for the family should the hand of death take her from the embrace of those she so loyally loved.
She was not unmindful of the plea of her Savour, for a number of ago she confessed her belief in His cause and became a member of the church. A large famly with many duties as a mother and as her husband has been afflicted with a chronic trouble, Mrs. Hand has not had the privilege of a full fellowship of attendance on church services yet she was always interested in the cause of her Master and helped in all ways that she found possible. For thirty seven years the Hands strove to make the homestead beautiful and a home of happiness. When strength began to fail and the children were ready to take the responsibility of life for themselves Father and Mother moved from the farm to Clay Center and for the last seventeen years have made our city their home.
As our sister had grown into the hearts of her family so has she grown into the hearts of those who have known her best. Her passing will not blot her memory from her friends hearts but we feel that her loving service to her family and acquaintances has only been a fore shadow of the welcome and affection that will greet her in the life to come. Many miss her here and may many greet her in the land of purity and eternal joy.
--Her Pastor
From "The Clay County Sun", Clay Center, Clay county, Nebraska:
MRS. E. M. HAND
(Obituary)
With the mother instinct that had led her all her life, Mrs. Hand had taken thoughtful care of her family all day long and had sent each out about tasks that called them; then she turned to herself and went out into the unseen to prepare a place and make comfortable as only a mothers hand can. As wife and mother she had lived a life of the most loving service to those that God save her the privilege of lavishing her mother love upon.
Susan Priscila, the daughter of John W. and Ellen (Cline) Roberts, was born at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa, February 10th, 1858 and folded the garment of earthly life at the close of the day, February 5th, 1928, within five days of her sixty-eighth birthday. When a little child the nation called her father into army service where he paid the supreme sacrifice as a soldier in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. During the days of the reconstruction she and her mother battled most heroically to win the necessities and comforts of life. On March 20 1873, Susan Priscilla Roberts and Elijah M. Hand embarked in the great voyage of matrimony. Each had undying faith in one another and two children that they were started on that long journey of almost fifty-five years of happy married life. Not long after the marriage vows had been taken the boy husband came to this county and filed on a claim. About a year later the husband gathered his earthly possessions in his lumber wagon bade his wife goodbye and started for his claim. A short month or so after his journey had been completed his wife joined him on the homestead in Marshall township, Clay County, Nebrasa. Here they wrested form the wilderness the necessities of life, built a home and reared a family of six girls and five boys. Death claimed Ernest, Fay and Lucy in infancy and Cora, who had become Mrs. Edward Hoyt, in 1918. The living children are Ella Hoyt, Fairfield, Mrs. Stella Kerr, Lamar, Colo., Frank, Morrfield, Mrs. Bessie Linden, Mitchell, Homer, Clay Center, Joe, Kellogg, Idaho, and Roy at Hastings. These children with thirty one grand children, one grandson paid a soldiers sacrifice in France, twenty great grand children, her half sister and husband join in praising her and calling her blessed. An own sister had preceeded her in death. Mother Hand's chief ambition was to give her children the comforts of a home such as she in her childhood had been denied although she longed for it so much. For this reason if for no other she was not so interested in the social life of the community. The fraternity of the Royal Neighbors offered a financial consideration that would be a help in trouble and smooth the path for the family should the hand of death take her from the embrace of those she so loyally loved.
She was not unmindful of the plea of her Savour, for a number of ago she confessed her belief in His cause and became a member of the church. A large famly with many duties as a mother and as her husband has been afflicted with a chronic trouble, Mrs. Hand has not had the privilege of a full fellowship of attendance on church services yet she was always interested in the cause of her Master and helped in all ways that she found possible. For thirty seven years the Hands strove to make the homestead beautiful and a home of happiness. When strength began to fail and the children were ready to take the responsibility of life for themselves Father and Mother moved from the farm to Clay Center and for the last seventeen years have made our city their home.
As our sister had grown into the hearts of her family so has she grown into the hearts of those who have known her best. Her passing will not blot her memory from her friends hearts but we feel that her loving service to her family and acquaintances has only been a fore shadow of the welcome and affection that will greet her in the life to come. Many miss her here and may many greet her in the land of purity and eternal joy.
--Her Pastor
MRS. E. M. HAND
(Obituary)
With the mother instinct that had led her all her life, Mrs. Hand had taken thoughtful care of her family all day long and had sent each out about tasks that called them; then she turned to herself and went out into the unseen to prepare a place and make comfortable as only a mothers hand can. As wife and mother she had lived a life of the most loving service to those that God save her the privilege of lavishing her mother love upon.
Susan Priscila, the daughter of John W. and Ellen (Cline) Roberts, was born at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa, February 10th, 1858 and folded the garment of earthly life at the close of the day, February 5th, 1928, within five days of her sixty-eighth birthday. When a little child the nation called her father into army service where he paid the supreme sacrifice as a soldier in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. During the days of the reconstruction she and her mother battled most heroically to win the necessities and comforts of life. On March 20 1873, Susan Priscilla Roberts and Elijah M. Hand embarked in the great voyage of matrimony. Each had undying faith in one another and two children that they were started on that long journey of almost fifty-five years of happy married life. Not long after the marriage vows had been taken the boy husband came to this county and filed on a claim. About a year later the husband gathered his earthly possessions in his lumber wagon bade his wife goodbye and started for his claim. A short month or so after his journey had been completed his wife joined him on the homestead in Marshall township, Clay County, Nebrasa. Here they wrested form the wilderness the necessities of life, built a home and reared a family of six girls and five boys. Death claimed Ernest, Fay and Lucy in infancy and Cora, who had become Mrs. Edward Hoyt, in 1918. The living children are Ella Hoyt, Fairfield, Mrs. Stella Kerr, Lamar, Colo., Frank, Morrfield, Mrs. Bessie Linden, Mitchell, Homer, Clay Center, Joe, Kellogg, Idaho, and Roy at Hastings. These children with thirty one grand children, one grandson paid a soldiers sacrifice in France, twenty great grand children, her half sister and husband join in praising her and calling her blessed. An own sister had preceeded her in death. Mother Hand's chief ambition was to give her children the comforts of a home such as she in her childhood had been denied although she longed for it so much. For this reason if for no other she was not so interested in the social life of the community. The fraternity of the Royal Neighbors offered a financial consideration that would be a help in trouble and smooth the path for the family should the hand of death take her from the embrace of those she so loyally loved.
She was not unmindful of the plea of her Savour, for a number of ago she confessed her belief in His cause and became a member of the church. A large famly with many duties as a mother and as her husband has been afflicted with a chronic trouble, Mrs. Hand has not had the privilege of a full fellowship of attendance on church services yet she was always interested in the cause of her Master and helped in all ways that she found possible. For thirty seven years the Hands strove to make the homestead beautiful and a home of happiness. When strength began to fail and the children were ready to take the responsibility of life for themselves Father and Mother moved from the farm to Clay Center and for the last seventeen years have made our city their home.
As our sister had grown into the hearts of her family so has she grown into the hearts of those who have known her best. Her passing will not blot her memory from her friends hearts but we feel that her loving service to her family and acquaintances has only been a fore shadow of the welcome and affection that will greet her in the life to come. Many miss her here and may many greet her in the land of purity and eternal joy.
--Her Pastor
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