Williams news., 1916-01-13
In Memory of Mrs. Caufman
(Contributed)

Mrs. Francis E. Shaw Caufman, 1 loving wife of Jacob Caufman, and devoted mother of Mrs. c. M. Wolfe and R. A. Caufman, bade her loved ones, Life's Last Farewell, on Tues day morning, and To, just as the first rays of the morning sunlight were casting their beams upon the azure blue. Twas 5:15 in the morning, while all else was still, that the angel of death came knock ing at the door of ths sanctuary that had held her life within, these three score years and ten and sum- moned her to the Great Court of her Creator, and the smile that first lit her countenance on the morning of the first day of February, 1S46, wreathed again the face now fur rowed with age and as those who sat around the bedside and saw the smile enthroned upon her features and stood breathless with joy be- lieving that she was growing better and recovering from her long illness looked with amazement upon it's vanishing flight, and that smile that had blossomed these many years, melted, and dissolved itself ; into another day in that land, That Bourne from which no man returns.
 Mrs. Caufman was born at the town of Center, Rock County, Wis consin, February 1st., 1S46, and was married to Jacob Caufman on July 22nd, 1865, and for many years resided in Ness County, Kan sas, from which they removed to Williams, Arizona, more than twen- ty-fve years ago. Mrs. Caufman was we'll known thruought the state and her many friends will learn with keen regret the said be- reavement of her husband and fam fly.
 AS a wife, Mrs. Caufman bore the sufferings of womanhood with patience and fort1tude and these she moulded into a weave of the best family fabric that has with stood all the vicissitudes of fifty years of married life and left to this section of Arizona, a monument, in her boy and girl, that will out last the whitest of marble, the glossiest of onyx and the hardest of granite. AS proud as she was of her family equally proud and solic- itous was she of her friends, and her courtesy was not measured by wealth or pomp. She was, as God wants us all to be, one of His own, and in her love of Him her love was unbound and unfettered and she loved not one, but all Her demise is indeed loss to her family, but greater than this is her loss to the community, where her presence has always been felt and noticed like unto the fragrance of the rose, and we bow in humble submission tothe will of the Almighty, ,andpray, May Gods greatest gift to mankind be, not riches nor gold, but another mother, another sister, another wife, just like Mother Caufman. Ed. The funeral services were held at the Caufman home We'd nesday afternoon at three o'clock. Rev. Boone conducted the services. The Ladies of the Maccabees at tended in body and accompanied the remains to the I. O. O. F. Gem etery where interment was made.
 The floral offerings were the rarest and most beautiful that were to be had.
 Mrs. Caufman leaves a brother, Robert Shaw, and sister, Mrs. J. M. Tracey, at Pawnee City Nebras-  ka; brother, Harvey Shaw and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Gilbert in Colo rado; in addition to her husband, Jacob Caufman; a son, R. A. Cauf- man; daughter, Mrs. Cab Wolfe,