Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-28
DEATHS HARVEST.
Two Aged Residents OF the City Pass
From This Life

FROM This Lille.
Mrs. Chas. H. Gearhart passed
away at her home, 1923 Steuben
street, last Tuesday evening at the
ripe age of nearly eighty eight. De-
ceased had been ailing for some time
and the cause of death was infirmities
incident to old age.
Mrs. Gearhart, whose maiden name
was Louise A. Tabor, was born in
Cayuga county, n. Y, Feb. 2, 1922.
Her girlhood days were spent in New
York City, where she was educated
and afterward taught school for sew
eral years in Livingston and Cayuga
counties She was married to Chas.
II. Gearhart Jan. 81, 1851, and in 1856
moved to Wisconsin, residing for four
years in Waushara county and there
after on a farm in Portage county
until after the close of the war. Mr..
Gearhart having lost his health in
the service, the farm was sold and
Mr.. and Mrs. Gearhart followed the
hotel business until 1896, since when
they have resided in Wausau.
1t may well be said of Mrs. Gear
hart that she was among the pioneers
of the country. Her parents were
among the early settlers in the state
of New York, and Wisconsin in the
early fifties was considered as tout
west"
Mrs. Gearhart was a very indus
trious woman, and during her hus-
bands service in the civil war she
lent considerable aid to the soldiers
The same spirit dominated her entire
career.
The funeral was held Friday morn
ing.
differences of Mrs. Gearhart's life
and character may well be drawn
from the following clipping which
was fayorite of hers and which she
requested be read at her burial SER
vice:
Deal gently with me. o, my Friends when
this frail life hath fled,
When We shall gather in my home and
whisper, she is dead"
Let not word of idle praise be breathed DER
And as for blame however just, OH. leave it
to my foes.
Bend Ger my couch with cheerful smile and
say she is at rest"
We loved her well, we miss her much but
God knows what is BEST;
And when We robe me for the grave let no
cold ShrOud be there
To send a shudder TO the heart, as from
Deaths icy air,
But wrap me in some simple garb that speaks
of warmth and rest.
And lay fair blossoms DER my brow and on
my silent breast.
Put nothing in my folded hands, but let
them empty be-
To show that life and all its care are hence
forth naught to me;
And toll no bell, and chant no dirge DER my
unburied dust,
But utter words of earnest prayer and sing
sweet hymns of trust.
Then lay me gently down to rest. where
sleep my loved and lost,
And think of me one whose barque is no
more tempeSt-toSSed;
And when We go back to the world Oh, do
not quite forget
That one whose heart was warm and true
would fam be cherished yet
But do not mourn that have gone. nor cast
. NttI VI SiOOH
Above my lonely vacant place in each IA
miliar room;
But bring the flowers | loved the best and
let their fragrance be
A pleasant incense in the house To waken
thoughts of me;
And sometime place upon my grave the
blossoms fair and sweet.
That shall be pledges of our love until the
hour we meet
1 ask no more; for thus to live in hearts
call mine own
We're better than the sounding praise of
monumental stone
| crave no guerdOn OF the world | ask no
boon of fame.
If we but cherish, year by year, my we'll
remembered name.
Besides her aged husband she is
survived by three sons: A. V. of this
city; A. A., Medford; and o. N,
Mellen
The funeral was originally set for
Friday afternoon, but owing to the
father-in-law of the last mentioned
son being killed, and the funeral
dates conflicting, the time was
changed to Friday morning Rev. G.
c. Crippen of the Baptist church
officiated.