The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-13
Mrs. Cynthia Rogers Died Friday
Morning at Her Home at Neep-
err, Mo. Aged 1o2
Years.
PIONEER OF TWO STATES
Her Oldest Child is Fifty-fwe, Oldest
Grandchild, Twenty-Five
Years of
Age.

Mrs. Cynthia Hodges, the oldest
woman in Clark county, Mo-, died at
! her home in that county Friday morn
| ing, April 10. She was well known in
her locality. Her grandfather was a
commissioned officer in the American
army in the revolutionary war of
HTS. She was a pioneer of two
states, Indiana and Missouri Her old
est child is ffty-five and her oldest
grandchild is twenty-five years old.
She has an interesting biography.
Biographical.
Cynthia Hodges was the oldest OF
seven daughters born to Robert and
Anna Crawford Creath. She was
born in Kentucky, July 81, 1911. Her
parents moved to Ripley county, Ind,
while she was quite small and her
mother died soon after. At the age
of twelve years she united with the
Christian church, which was then in
It's infancy, much against her fathers
will. who was strict Presbyterian.
During all her life she lived q con-
secrated christian life and was able
to repeat from memory many chapters
of the Bible
In 1926 she was united in marriage
to Reuben B. Hodges, and to them
we're born five children. two of whom
are yet living. Mr.. ]. L. Hodges, her
only son, at whose home she has liv-
1 ed for the past several years, and one
dai ghter, Mrs. Margaret Rodgers, who
| Is now past eighty-five years of age,
who makes her home with R. B. Rod
gers, her son, who is editor of the
News at Wyaconda
In 1854 Reuben B. Hodges and fam
/ lily moved from Ripley county, Ind.
to Clark county. Mo-. settling on the
Eold home place near Keeper Mr..
Hodges died in 1883, but she con-
tfnued to live in the old home until
1907 when she went to live with her
son. j. L. Hodges. Just across the
road. where she died Friday morning
at 400 o'clock, passing off quietly
simply falling asleep in death.
i Grandma Hodges knew nothing of
the Injuries of the world. She was
one of the pioneers of both Indiana
and Missouri and experienced the
lhardships, the reyerses, the priva-
tions and the disappointments Of the
early settlers. She was reared on a
farm and knew nothing of city life.
She saw this country plunged into ter
lrible war and saw her son don the
blue and enlist with the Third Iowa
cavalry at Keokuk and go to the front
to defend the flag and the union. She
saw peace restored and felt that God
had answered her prayers when her
son returned 70 the old home in 1865.
She saw her grandchildren grow to
manhood and womanhood and realized
her extreme old age. But she never
saw an electric Hight or street car.
. She never rode on a railroad train
and never saw an automobile until
her Tooth birthday when she was Civ
I en- ride in q touring car She was
greatly pleased with the ease and
Il comfort Of the car but could not IN
Iderstand what propelled IT. She was
: never afforded an opportunity to at
tend school but was taught to read
and write while young and she en-
joyed the days and years God gave her
as we'll perhaps, as many who are
surrounded by wealth and luxury
i, And while many sorrows have cross
ed her heart she never murmured OF
became DISCOURAGED
AS is stated above, her oldest child
+ Margaret Rodgers, is eighty-fve years
a. old Her oldest grandson is nearly
$. fiftyfour years old and her oldest
2. great-grandson is twenty-five years
is old
The funeral Will be held from tn.
Christian church at Keeper, of which
she was member, this morning, a
1880 o'clock, by Elder Carr, her for
mer pastor, after which she will b.
laid to rest in the cemetery at Neeper
Determined to Be In STYLE.
A customer In butchers sho,
stood gazing at some small alligator