Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1916-03-02
Another Noble Life Ended.

excellent citizen was being ushere9 in
to the mysterious hereafter. This oc-
Cured last Friday. Feb. 25, when Mrs.
Eliza fuckers career on earth came
TO a close. AS tribute to her WORTH
ness The Tribune CLEANS from the elo-
quent remarks of her pastor, Rev. w.
ID. g. Bond, at the time of the burial
services, Sunday afternoon, fully aware
| of their accuracy:
| Mrs. Eliza Tucker, whose passing is
the cause of this solemn assembly, was
the only daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Allen, ST., who were among the
very early settlers of Mineral Point.
Their daughter was born Dec IL, 1852,
being 6S years, 2 months and Ii days
of age when called away. Here she
spent her entire life, receiving her ed
ucaticn in the local schools and passing
thrcagh the various stages of religious
and social life up to womanhood, when
she was united in marriage to Mr.. John
Tucker, man OF most exemplary
christian character kind, unassuming,
energetic, honest. Three sons were
born unto them. Allen, Harry and
John
'"fhe husband and father was sum-
momed by his master nigh unto twenty
five years ago, when it was brought
plainly to view that one of the severest
dispensations which human hearts are
called upon to bear is the stealing in of
death upon the home, where happiness
seems complete and hope is radiant
with anticipation of many coming years
of bliss, and taking from it the very
center around which the happiness and
hope revolved. =
''On, friends, what a folly is life,
what mad. mad world this is if death
ends ALL But death does not end all.
4 &c to prepare place for you, is
significant. And shall we not
fancy what it meant to our Sister, who
for twenty-five years has born the loss
of separation. to meet again and to
unite once more the broken thread.
''In the earlier days before physical
limits sions prevented Mrs. Tucker was
especially active in the interests Of
the saurch its classes. its choir, its
societ is. its Sunday school. Yet for
all IL her home has been the center
of hssr thought and effort. Assuming
so ee'Tg in married life the full re-
sponsibiIities of the domestic circle,
she continued to be engrossed with the
important affairs thereof Never did
mother exemplify more fully the
characteristics of true motherhood, and
be it said her love and admonitions
were not wasted. She found a SPLEEN
did and comforting response in the
lives Of her sons.
"Her final illness was brief only a
few days Of struggle. Here in the
home of her oldest son and wife who
spared no effort that love could invent,
surrounded by the entire family, she
peacefully fell asleep. Besides her
three sons, two brothers, three grand
children, four nephews and one niece,
with other relatives more remote, are
in the shadow of this passing while nu-
merons are the friends who sympathize
with the Borrowing and who are con-
scious that they too have been bereay-
ed"
The funeral was exceptionally large.
Appropriate singing was well rendered
by Messrs. Huxtable, Bray and Maust,
with Miss Wallis accompanying them
on the piano. The Rebekahs of which
order deceased was member, attended
in a body and gave their impressive
ritualistic services over the remains.