File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 30 October 1998. Link change or update: 30 Oct 1998
Obituary for Frances Hubbard (1811-1893)
No. 064 - Uncited clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection" of
Beth Rengers Talken, 1998.
Died, at the home of her son, Thursday, April 13, 1893, Mrs. Frances HUBBARD, widow of Barton HUBBARD, aged 82 yrs. and 1 month.
"Aunt Frankie" as she was familiarly known, was born in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and came with her parents (C.L. and Mary CARTER) to Missouri at the age of 19 yrs. In 1834 she was united in marriage to Barton HUBBARD. By this union eight children were born, three of whom survive her as follows: Moses, Fannie and Barton.
She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Judith WRIGHT, and two brothers, Col. T.M. and Rolla CARTER, and a large circle of relatives and friends, over whose hearts her demise casts a shadow of gloom. The subject of this notice has been blind for 13 years, but bore her severe affliction with great endurance, never murmuring or complaining, but gave evidence of an abiding faith and hope. Early in life, at about the age of 17 years, she yielded her heart to Christ, and united with the Methodist church. Through the intervening years until death she was an earnest, conscientious and faithful Christian, remarking that she had never for once doubted her conversion. Her life was along the line of the highest impulses of regenerate heart; she always saw life at its best, construing the acts of all in the spirit of charity that thinketh no evil.
"Mother's" chair is vacant; "grandma's" soothing and caressing tones are forever hushed in silence. But her memory will be long cherished in the home she adorned. Her last illness was of seven week's duration; seven long weeks she hovered between life and death. Death did his work gradually and adroitly; he took down the clay tabernacle carefully and deftly. But, at last, with a form worn to attenuation, the summons came quietly and sweetly.
The funeral sermon was preached by Rev. C.P. SNOW of Troy, to a large congregation that had assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to her memory which showed the high esteem in which she was held, after which her remains were borne to their last resting place and interred according to the ritual of the church. May they all strive to meet that good mother in a world where parting is unknown. "Lost to sight; to memory dear." --Jessie.
Note regarding clippings from the "Neva Murphy Hubbard Collection": Neva Murphy Hubbard (1886-1971) lived all of her life in Lincoln County, MO. She collected a large file of clippings of Lincoln County residents. The majority of the clippings were without citation. Beth Rengers Talken, beneficiary of the collection, has transcribed them for inclusion in our Lincoln County Heritage Records.
File contributed for use on USGenWeb/MOGenWeb Lincoln County Heritage Page by Beth Rengers Talken, 30 October 1998. Link change or update: 30 Oct 1998
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