The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1912-05-16

In Memory of Mrs. Henry NJ.
CLANCY.

New Market township, I'm this county,
September 1887.
Her parents John and Martha Nor
row, among the Pioneer Presby byterians
of southern Ohio. we're God-fearing,
Sabbath-keeping, Psalm singing, good
folks. Anxious to give their children
the advantages of school and society
denied them, honesty, integrity and
hospitality we're every day virtues Of
those pioneer homes.
Though reared strictly in the Cal |
vanistic faith, their father and other !
ancestry we're of those "known in the
gates, when he sitteth among the
Elders of the land" Mr.. Morrow's
daughters all united with the Meth
odist Church early in life, and we're
individually, consistent Chris / an
women, whose children rose up to
call them blessed"
The youngest, the subject of our
sketch, was married November 1858,
to Henry NJ. Chaney, who survives
her. spending long and harmonious
married life To them we're born six
children, three sons and three daugh-
ters, one of the former died few
years ago, the other two are business
men Of Vincennes, Ind. The daugh
ters are Mrs. Frank Jones, Of Hills
boro, o., Mrs. Lane Williams, Of
Omaha, Neb., and Miss Margaret
Chaney.
Mrs. Ella CLANCY on the morning Of
May I, 1912, fell asleep. "Sleep that
knows not breaking, morn of toll,
nor night of waking" The close of a
long patient born invalidism.
Though nursed with all the care,
kindness and thought, that loving
r hearts and tender hands could prompt,
she weakened visibly day by day from
the serious attack, the beginning Of
her fatal malady, Of almost three
years ago, not always suffering pain,
} but from continued and increasing
r weariness, always patient, kind, CRATE
+ full, never failing to thank with voice
, or smile for every service.
= Mrs. CLANCY was true gentle
/ woman In the best sense of that term.
The description, the Hebrew Lemuel's
= mother In Proverbs XXXI gives Of
t the wife she desires for her son, her
e virture, modesty, economy, kindness
p and care, "for her price is far above
;. rubies, seemed to apply in every par
= ticular, as wife, mother, neighbor and
= friend to Mrs. CLANCY.
i She was ever shy, modest, retiring,
d but woman of strong mentality,
strong feeling and character, with the
e courage of her own convictions, suave
J. and gracious in manner; blessed with
), that most desirable asset, "a voice
II soft and low, an excellent thing In
II woman"
/. Until forced by illness to lay aside
a the duties she always "looked we'll to
n the ways of her household and ate not
l. the bread of idleness." No one was
a ever turned from her door hungry ol
II distressed, and in the bestowal of he
l. charities she was ever kind, tactfu
,e and gracious. In her own family Of sil
Or children, wi h added nieces anC
le nephews-the comings and goings
the sunshine and shadows, the smile
and tears that come into every hom
her reign as queen was absolute i
there,
- "A nobler type of good
r Than heroic womanhood."
re Trained as have said from childhool
'o to free handed, Open-hearted hospital
H. ity, her home was a pleasant, attraC
OF tive visiting place. AS her children
grew up they became comrades, an
n their friends we're her friends, an
'e- many who have left the home mes
ed and gone out into the world wi
10 carry pleasant memories Of Mrs
ne Chaney's kindness, patience and syn
h' pathy for she was truly one of thos
n women "nobly planned, to warn,
an comfort and command"
as Mrs. CLANCY was blessed with
voice of remarkable power and sweet
nd ness, which would certainly have r,
ed sponded TO cultivation the friends {
II her earlier life recall her renderin
er of the "Old Sweet Songs" and I'll
he grand old anthems One of the hapI
ed features of her sick room was IL
daily singing of her daughters, 81
iy. joining as long as her voice permitte
nv The testimony of her own family
AN they had never heard her voice rais'
ew in anger or reproof, her correction
al. her rebukes or her commendatiol
,ou we're always in the soft, low tone
,ou and certainly that In its self is
9TH goodly heritage. Does not such
life preach it's own sermon2