The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-20
A Tribute to the Life of Mrs. Bum.
garner.
(Nampa Herald.)


loss that comes to home when tn,
mother, the center of it's warmth ant
cheer and love and life, the very cor,
and essence of the family life is sud
denly taken away and the bewildere(
mourners are left to the desolation O
grief. Such loss came to the famil,
and friends of Emma Mcpherson
Bumgarner Of Nampa, Idaho, on Jan
uary 19,190S, when after brief i'll
ness her gentle spirit passed away
from earth.
Mrs. Bumgarner was one of ter
children born to j. H. and Marriah
j. MCPHERSON of Athens county
Ohio. She was born on March %
1857, and her childhood and girlhood
were passed happily and uneventfully
in her fathers home. Converted in
early childhood, her life was always
that of consistent Christian. For
many years member of the Metho-
dist church, she seemed never to
know the doubts and fears that beset
many minds but walked secure in the
strength of faith that knew no
faltering.
Only those who had the privilege
OF knowing Mrs. Bumgarner long and
well could fully realize the inmate
nobility and sweetness of her charac-
ter for hers was quiet and retiring
disposition, showing more by deeds
than by words the depths of thought
and the high ideals that were hers.
But no one could look into her fine
earnest face and observe the cheerful
serenity of her daily life and not
know that heres was truly life hid
with God"
She came to Idaho in the prime of
her young womanhood after several
years experience as a nurse, in the
hospital for the insane at Athens,
and took up the same line of work
at the asylum at Blackfoot, Idaho,
where she remained for several years.
1t was here that the writer's &C.
quaintance with her began and the
conscientious discharge of duty in
caring for the unhappiest of all af-
flicted beings-the insane-her con-
sistent Christian life, gentle ways and
intellectual aspirations soon won the
esteem and affection which have been
hers ever since.
She was extremely fond of music
and planned to qualify herself as a
teacher of that art and spent her
leisure time in its study and practice.
In 1896 she returned to her home in
Ohio and soon after entered the con-
servatory of music at Cincinnati,
where she spent some months. But
the west was calling her and she re-
turned to Blackfoot to visit her sis
ter, Mrs. George E. Bumgarner and
on March %, 1897. she was married
to Mr.. Charles M. Bumgarner of that
place.
The early years of her married life
we're passed at or near Blackfoot and
there her three children were born.
In April, 1906, she removed with her
family to Nampa, Idaho, where she
resided until the time of her death.
Her illness was brief and the news
If her death came with shock to
1er friends and was a crushing blow
% her loved ones. But though gone
rom us she will not be forgotten.
Her friends and relatives far and
hear, her aged father, now eighty
7ears old, her husband and children
n the gloom of darkened home, all
lave sweet and precious memories
" her patience and devotion that will
lbide with them and point them to
he way of Christ where she faith
ully walked all the days of her life.
ELLEN LUELLING OWENS.