The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-10
A Fathers Tribute.

SUu. looI, dlu was, DIS Will Do seen Stlll
in the prime of life when cut down.
She was the second child of Henry c.
Laub and Lydia Baer-her now de-
ceased mother.
With her mother and older sister,
Miss Alice M. Laub (now Mrs. j. d.
Alnsworth) she came to Muscatine,
Iowa, June 1852, the father having
preceded them in November, 1851
In December, 1855, her parents moved
to Crawford county, where she lived
till her demise. Her education was
obtained in the common schools of
Denison with the exception of one year
in the State University at Iowa City.
at which place she first met Mr.. j. B.
Romans, to whom she was married
April %, 1870. by the Rev B. Shin of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
She was the mother of four children.
one son, who died when four years old.
and three daughters, viz: Dollie Lydia,
now Mrs. Joseph Bradley, lone and
Junia. Her private life was without a
stain. From girlhood hers was car
eer of religious fervor. Her faith was
implicit and sublime. She knew her
God as surely as she knew the tranquil
beauty OF the stars. or the meridian
splendor of the sun. No lingering
doubt disturbed her belief in the
Divinity of Jesus the Saviour, and a
future state of eternal bliss Death
was to her.a gateway to an eternity of
purity, serenity and joy. The work of
the church was to her labor of love.
Her home was to her the one spot of
supreme felicity, typical of that higher
home and more numerous family to
which she has been summoned. Her
great heart was entirely consecrated
to her family. Her affection for hus-
band and children was as sweet and
pure as mothers kiss. Hers was the
home of confidence and contentment
No vision of glory could dim the lustre
of her fireside, no ambition dull the
calm delights of her hearthstone. 1t
was the abiding place OF all the domes-
tic virtues. She was steadily and
even rapidly growing woman. Each
succeeding effort surpassed the last.
In her were possibilities that pointed
to the best and proudest results of
womanhood She relied upon hard
work rather than genius. Her defini-
ton of ability was intelligent industry.
Her early death must be considered
great calamity. The principles she so
ardently espoused and maintained have
sustained grevious loss. The vigor-
GUS and stalwart young city of Denison
and the county she in part represented
with so much honor and fidelity in the
several congresses of woman, bows un-
der the burden of her great bereave-
ment. Her life was one of ceaseless
activity, conscious of the power with
which she was endowed, she regarded
it as trust held in use for others.
Death came when the heart beat
high, when ambition was on the wing.
brightness: but it brought peace and
tranquility to busy, restless soul, and
changed duty on earth to her sister
woman, to other and higher duties in
realms above. Death claimed her at
the very threshold of promising
career, at the moment when she seem
ed best prepared for wider usefulness
But she is gone,she is no longer among
u.s. called by wise Providence from
our presence. We bow to this decree
pausing only little while today, not
to question the inscrutable mysteries
OF that Providence. but to pay one last
tribute. to give our heart offerings to one
whom in life we loved and honored and
though removed FROM these scenes for
ever, leaves behind naught but memor-
les most pleasing and reflections most
instructive, and the record of life,
the study of which cannot fail to make
us who remain, a better, wiser and
more faithful people.
And now as we pay tribute to the
memory of the dead, we may pause and
send a message of sympathy to the
widowed husband and orphaned child
rem, bereaved father, and brothers and
sisters who are strlckened by an incur
able grief. The place that was hallow-
ed by a mothers and wife's presence
is silent and sad, and that broken and
bereaved family, in agonizing tears,
stand by fresh made grave, but the
weary body lies where no storm can
disturb it, The wrecked bark rides at
anchor without a disturbing wave.
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