Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-14
Pilot Grove Correspondence.
OBITUARY

At her Pilot Grove home in Whine
sheik County, Iowa, Saturday morn
ing, Nov. l, 1913. OCCURRED the dealt
of Mrs. Olivia S. Teetshorn at the ag'
of "a years, S months and days.
| The funeral was at the home on tn.
following Tuesday. and interment il
Oak. Lawn Cemetery, Cresco, Iowa. b,
the side of the husband liwho preceded
her in death by over thirty years. Tn,
!! funeral discourse by Rev. Sylvester q
the Ridgeway Methodist church was
able and impressive. His word pic
lures illustrative of the beauties in life
in the different stages from infancy t.
old age, and his portrayal of what con.
stitutes beautiful old age were words
to be remembered. Some beautiful
vocal selections were admirably rem
dered by the Ridgeway quartet choir.
Olivia s. Pardee, daughter of Eben.
eyer and Samantha Pardee, was born
in Homer. CORTLAND county, N. Y,
May %, 1929. She was the youngest
and the last to survive of a family OF
six sisters, and no one to perpetuate
the Pardee name. She was a direct
descendent of the New England Puri.
tans, her parents. being natives of Con
necticut. She was reared under strict,
church-going, religious influences.
She moved with her people to Wal
worth county, Wis.,, in 1886. and, was
married to Chauncey H. Teetshorn in
1850. Four children were born to the
family, three sons and one daughter.
John A., born in 1853, died at the age
of six years, and was buried at Utters
Corners, Wis. c. E., born in 1856. and
living near Cresco in the pioneer Iowa
home. Flora 8. now Mrs. Flora Beu-
cher, born in 1859, and also residing
with her only child, Myrtle, at the old
home. George F., born in 1875, died
in infancy and was buried in Oak
Lawn, Cresco.
The family came feom Wisconsin to
Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1866. and
turned the virgin sod. The husband
and father died in 1883. The mother
has lived continuously in the old home
to the time of death.
Grandma Teetshorn left to her
natural heirs comparatively moderate
amount of property, real or personal.
But she had enough. She had been
careful not to become dependent and
beggar in the world. But our
mother left US more than all the
wealth of all the world. She left US a
long life as a builder, a peacemaker.
and harmonizer in the home. Moral
suasion was her rod of chastisement,
and she was skillful in its use. STE
always carried in her hand a mantle of
charity, and when any discord or
misunderstanding crept in she would
cover the wounds and say: "You
should know each other better"
While she recognized such a thing as
intentional wrong-doing, she held.
mainly, to the following beautiful
lines:
ST knew you and you knew me,
II both of us could plainly see,
And with an inner sight divine
The meaning of your heart and mine;
I'm sure that we would differ less
And cllsp our hands In frienditness, +
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree, a..
Ill knew you and you knew me-" +,
Mother left Us 40 an inheritance, over
thirty years of widowhood as beacon
kght-to our little mariners on the
sea of life-an exempIar
"a :. moral teacher, and guardian
angel in the home. Over three decades
ago our mother planted tree in odr
midst. She cultivated that tree, and it
grew and expanded and hlossomed
successfully for six grand children and
four great-grand-children. And that
tree is the tree of maternal love. n
may say that the. world is dotted over
with trees Of maternal love.
: A fathers love may be more COM
pared to stern. judge-like method of |
dispensing justice to his children.
What is maternal love? Show me the
scales strong enough to weigh
love. A father and mother
had become estranged from their son,
and in my presence the father declared
hat his son could come home no more.
The mother with the look of Heaven in
Ter eyes spoke up: "Our son has gone
wrong, but he must be allowed to re-
urn" A mysterious connecting link
'etween mother and son, recognized.
Ter son was part of her very life
We are told how, on one occasion,
benjamin Franklin thought to test this
onnecting link between mother, and
hid by concealing his identity from
er; but a something told her that he
vas her son. Her son was still a part
+ her very life. King Solomon won
is first great renown by his method of
etermining the real mother of a babe