Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1919-03-26
In Memoriam-Ca Carrie Bishop sturmer

In Memoriam-Car Bishop Sturmer
-Four simple words the head stone
bore
1 conned their meaning DER and
DER:
She made home happy,'-What
could be
Sweeter appeal to memory,
Or who could frame in language
true
More praise in words so fit and
few?
She made home Year by
year
Her life was one of hope and
cheer
Traits that will live in later age,
Her children's sacred heritage"
Carrie Alcorn daughter of Emanuel
and Abbie Stephens Bishop, was born
in the township of Beetown, January
| 1, 1878. She entered into the eternal
rest at her home in Bloomington on
March 3, 1919, aged as years,
months and days. She and her sis
ter Lottie, youngest of a large family,
were orphaned at an early age. The
little girls were lovingly tended and
reared by the older sisters and broth
ers. They grew together into lovely
maidens, the tie that bound in beau
tiful sisterhood being broken only by
Iottie's death which occurred in
1916. She was the wife of Clay Ad-
kins, a woman of lovely character,
and greatly mourned as wife, mother,
sister and friend.
Carrie was married to Albert Stur-
mer, Nov 20, 1882 The couple i'm
mediately went to housekeeping on
their farm near Beetown where their
children, Earl and Abbie, were born.
! Here the parents resided until their
removal to Bloomington one year ago,
to home of Carries own choosing
a home made beautiful and happy as
the old home ever was, by the deft
hands and CHEEKY spirit of the moth
er. The sons marriage and the COM
ing of the little granddaughter added
joys and completed the harmony of
their little circle. But why write
effusively of that unbroken home?
They were social people, splendid
neighbors-their latch-string always
out And all who came or went car
ried a sense of pleasantness because
of the genial atmosphere always prev
alent there. 1t was with feelings of
personal sorrow that the news of
Carrie Sturmer's dangerous illness
the first of the year, spread from lip
to lip. 1t seemed impossible to pic
ture that busy little figure prostrat-
ed or to imagine the happy voice in
tones of pain. Death to her, howev-
er, was not unexpected. She had a
dreamer was it a vision? The be-
loved sister, LOttie, came to her-and
f1oated away with beautiful, beckon-
ing smiles. Then Carrie penned in
structions to the family as to her de-
mise. Among her requests was her
7esire for six Easter lilies-one for
her own hands, and one each for her
husband, Earl Addie, Abbie and little
Carolyn. A beautiful thought, typi-
| cal of the unity and sweetness that
bound their hearts in closest devo-
tion
With the bereft family there mourn
the older sister, Mrs. Aurora Kinney,
Prairie du Chen, and four brothers,
John of Beetown, George of Dubuque,
Frank of Prairie du Chen and Harley
of Bisbee, Arizona, many other rela-
tives and scores of friends. The nu-
| merous floral offerings and the large
| attendance at the Dodge church at
the last rites, attested the communi-
tvs sorrow and sympathy Rev. Ar
helger of Lancaster, spoke impress
sively, his theme being the Mothers
and Wives of Yesterday. Carrie was
| a charter member of the Beetown r.
n. A. camp, also a member of the
Eastern Star, Bloomington Both or
ders gave their rituals for ceremonies
to the dead. Burial was in the ceme-
terry nearby where repose her par
ents, brother, Jerome, and sister,
Nellie, Mrs John Ziegler
"Sad, lonely, weary at heart, / sit
and dream
Of her who once was here, but now
is gone.
Of her whose love, whose smiles,
whose presence dear
Are now denied me as the night
comes on.
But guiding, with never failing
love
God soothes the wounds her passing
on has made,
And gently, with His tender, low
ing voice
Whispers. o grieving ones, be not,
be not afraid" b D. &