Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-02-18
Mrs. II. s. Wattles.

After an unusually long release from
the blighting hand of death in our midst,
very many hearts were saddened by the
news of the sudden and unexpected
death Of Mrs. H. S. Wattles, one of Au-
dubon's long time residents. She had
been poorly for some time and very
sick indeed for week or more but
since she had been seemingly as low
so many times before, fatality was
scarcely looked for so soon. Catarrhal
pneumonia had gained unreieIting hold
upon her vitals, and proved that tne
hour of her final departure had come.
Mrs. Martencya e. Wattles was born
in Clinton county, New York, January
IL, 1880. She moved with her brothers
family to LaSalle county, Illinois, about
1856, and on November 6, 1860, at
Ottawa, Illinois, she became Mrs. H. s.
Wattles in sacred bonds Of matrimony.
After nearly ten years residence in Hi
nois she came with her husband to Oak
field, Iowa, in October 1870, afterwards
moving to Extra, Iowa, which place con-
tinued to be their home until the fall of
1879, when they moved to the, then, new
town of Audubon, Iowa, where she
found continuous home until called,
we must say to the far better and hap
pier eternal home, where pain, sorrow,
nlr Il
Three children came of this union, all
girls, one of whom died when almost
three years of age, in Illinois. The re-
naming two daughters, Lizzie, now Mrs
C. L. Bison, of Brayton, Iowa, and
Nettie, now Mrs. j. M. Thomas, of Extra
with the bereved husband and father,
Mr.. II. S. Wattles, together with her
four grand children and two sons-in law,
remain here in Audubon county to
mourn her very sad and sudden death.
The deceased during her life has en-
dured great deal of sickness and suf-
fering from physical ailment and ever
since our acquaintance with her and
family, she has been in such a poor
condition of health as would have made
most of people with less energy and de-
termination confined invalids, yet dur
ing all this she has cheerfully borne up
and gone forward with her family and
motherly duties, with all her available
strength and energy, ever extending the
helpful hand and encouraging word to
all around her who needed sympathy
and assistance. Physically she must
have been compact bundle of vital
energy to have endured such siege of
bodily suffering and affection and thus
survived many years.
She breathed her last on earth about
10 o'clock last Sabbath evening, Febru-
airy IA, 1897, at the age of CT years,
month and 3 days. And her spirit
passed, we trust, to other, far brighter
and more peaceful scenes in Heavenly
realms.
After very brief service at the home
in Audubon on Tuesday morning the
remains were taken to Extra for inter-
ment where the funeral services proper
we're held in the Congregational church
conducted by the pastor, Rev. H. L.
Wissler, after which the body was laid
gracefully to rest in the beautiful GENE
terry there to await the resurrection
morn.
The very sad feature in case of this
death is the fact that both her daughters
were sick at their homes and thus unable
to be with their fond mother during her
last illness and death leaving the
greater burden upon the sorrowing
father. ~