The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-10-20
DEATH OF MRS. HIRAM JOHNSON
A Woman Highly Respected and
Esteemed Is Called To the
Great Beyond

josephine E. johnson, wife of Hiram
Johnson of Eureka, died at their home
ON north Main street on Saturday
morning. Oct. IS. 1906. of organic COM
plications, with which she had been
afflicted for a number OF years, but
which only developed seriously the past
few months, when she began to fail SO
rapidly that her relatives and friends
realized that she would soon pass to the
life beyond. Iu her passing away Eu-
reka has lost another estimable woman,
n esteemed and respected by many
friends.
Mrs. johnson is numbered among the
old residents of Eureka, coming here TO
join her husband who was engaged in
the mercantile business shortly after
their marriage at her home in
Worcester. Massachusetts,, in 1876.
Their early married life having been
spent here, and their three children
having been born here, kindred ties Of
love and affection bound them closely
to the old home town, and after an alb.
sence Of 10 years. during which time
they resided in Salt Like City, Mr..
johnson returned in 1901 with his vile
and family to Eureka to again re-en-
gage in business and reside here.
Deceased was a woman of inteili-
gence. culture and refinement. She
was also a musician of superior ability,
having played pipe organ in one of the
Eastern churches for ~ years. and dur.
ing he residence in Eureka has often
afforded pleasure to her friends with
her music. and has appeared in pubic
in musical entertainments.
In her home life she was a devoted
wife and mothsr, and being a devout
Christian character, her every walk OF
life manifested itself as plainly in good
actions as did the beautiful sentiment
Of the following favorite hymn on hers
that was rendered by the choir at the
funeral:
II Cannot Always Trace the Way"
| cannot always trace the way
Where Thou, Almighty One, dost move;
But ! can always, always say,
That God is love, that God Is love.
Yes. God is love. "a thought like this.
Can every gloomy thought remove,
And turn all tears, all woes to bliss,
For God is love. for God is love.
The deceased is survived by her hus-
band, two sons, Adams and Artemus,
aud daughter, Mrs. Walter Bracken, ali
of whom were at home during her last
Illness and death. She is also survived
by a sister, Mrs. S. X. Parkhurst Of
Brookline. Boston.
Deceased was born at Hopkinton.
Mass, February /, 1912.
The funeral was held from the Epis.
copal church Monday afternoon at 3
O'Clock. Mr.. John Pardy read the Epis-
copal burial service and prayers and
spoke words Of comfort and consolation
to the bereaved family aud the friends
assembled to pay their last respects to
the deceased. He said in part, quoting
from the Life of Paul. in whose mind.
10 die meant to enter at once into the
blessedness of heaven;
~ am in a strait betwixt the two.
having the desire to depart and be with
Christ"
"Paul's analogy Of the wheat throws
much light upon the subject Of the res
direction. He compares the death OF
the body to the decay of the grain, and
the resurrection body to the plant that
springs from the dying grain. The life
principle Of the wheat is wrapped mp i'll
material body. and there it remains
until it can adapt itself to a higher and
fuller life; then it let's 60 the EMBEDDING
matter, which decays and becomes to
the new plant no more than any other
matter. There is an identity between
the full grown plant and the grain
which was planted, but the identity
consists, not i'll the matter. but in an
invisible life-principle. which the
chemist cannot discover; perhaps not a
particle OF the grain may be found in
the new plant, This hfe-principle sur
wives the destruction of the grain, and
bui Ids for itself u new body. The con-
tinuanee and development of the wheat.
life depend, not upon the continuance
OF the grain. but upon its destruct. on.
thus does Paul teach US hat this bodily
state is bat a stage IN the life Of the
soul, that death Is but a transition from
"a lower to II higher stage, that the
identity between the earthly man
and the heavenly nan consists, not III
mater. but III spirit. that future life
depends, not on the preservation. but
on the loss OF the physical body, and
that the resurrecuon OF life begins at
the dsa h OF the body"
The interment was in the Masonic
cemetery. Most OF the Eureka bushes