The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-04-13

The funeral of Mrs. James r. Nor.
row occurred from her late residence
on South High street, this city, FRI
day, March 81, at p. m. and was
conducted by Revs. W. F. g. Lippert
and Warren B. Dunham of the Pres
byterian churches at. New Market
and Hillsboro.
Appropriate music was rendered,
the numbers "Home of the Soul' and
"Asleep in Jesus" by Miss Edith Gard
ner, OF Washington G. H., a relative
of the deceased, being especially i'm
pressive. The remains we're taken to
New Market for interment.
As a part of the service the follow
ing sketch was read:
Hannah Couch Morrow, the daugh-
ter of John and elizabeth King Couch,
was born near NEWMARKET, Ohio,
November 20, 1915, and died at her
residence in Hillsboro, Ohio, March
20, 1905, aged SO years and four
months.
1.-THE deceased is the last of Fam.
lily of nine children She was twice
married. First to Thomas Hunter,
Jr., who died in fifteen months after
marriage, and of which union there
was a daughter, Belle Mem. Hunter,
who survives her mother.
"The second marriage was to James
r. Morrow, cousin of her former
husband, and who died September II,
1896. To them we're born four child.
ren. The oldest, son, died in infan-
cy. Frelinghuysen II. died in the ser
vice in the Civil War, having enlisted
at the age of seventeen, his father at
the same time being in the service.
Joanna d. died at the late residence
of the deceased September 81, 1904.
The remaining child is Col. d. Q.
Morrow of this city. The families of
both of her husbands, as we'll as her
own, we're prominently and fayorably
identified with the history of High
land county.
"FOr several years while young she
lived in Cincinnati and vicinity, but
nearly all her life was spent in New
Market and New Market township
from where she moved to Hillsboro
about one year ago.
"In her old home she was we'll and
favorably known to every citizen and
her familiar form was part of the
place itself. There to-day we return
to deposit all that is mortal to await
the resurrection day.
"Mrs. Morrow was converted in
early life, accepted Christ and at the
time of death was a member of the
New Market Presbyterian Church.
In her declining years she often ex-
pressed desire to 60 to her Heaven
ly home. Her life was very active
one, except the last three years when
Affections came. That activity was
remarkable for its great extent and
when supported, as it was, by vital.
ity hardly ever seen in this day, made
the deceased a wonder to all who
knew her life.
with 1t, too, existed zeal and en-
thusiasm in everything undertaken
and a perfect loyalty for those she
loved. Particularly was this loyalty
evidenced toward her children to
whom she ever clung and for whom
no task or hardship was too great to
be but labor of duty and labor of
love. Though vigorous and deter
mined in the positions taken when
convinced che was right, she was
equally fair and generous in her feel.
ings toward those who honestly had
different convictions.
"Littleness of character and un-
principled traits of same she always
condemned and the opposite was
promptly recognized, appreciated and
defended whenever 1t appeared to
her.
"The life of the deceased was a life
belonging to generation past, of a
time when true worth was the stand.
ard. 1t may be that the present and
future can produce characters of
equal merit, 1t is certain that they
can do no better.
"Her pilgrimage was long and Mrs.
Morrow was one of two survivors of
the same generation of her relatives.
Fitting indeed was the sweet, undis.
turbed sleep after such long, weary
and active life. Until few hours
before the end her wonderful will and
endurance was with her, but finally,
seeming to feel the inevitable, she
succumbtd without a murmur; and
with the request that her children re-
main in her presence, closed her eyes
! forever on all earthly scenes.
"The cares and strife of life will
trouble her no more. Its burdens are
lifted and she will sleep the peaceful
sleep of the departed in the old New
Market cemetery around which are
scenes SO enshrined in her heart ant
In which, also, lie so many of those
: with whom her life was spent.
Sometime, somewhere. among the