Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1921-09-08
MOTHER OF ELEVEN

She Mothered eleven;
Night after night she Watched the
little bed,
Night after night she cooled a fever
ed head,
Day after day she guarded little feet,
Taught little minds the dangers Of
the street,
Taught little lips to utter simple
prayers,
Whispered of a strength that some
day would be theirs,
And trained them all to use it as they
should,
She gave her babies for the nations
good.
She Mothered eleven;
! She gave her beauty-from her
cheeks let fade,
The roses blushes-to her mother
trade,
She saw the wrinkles furrowing her
brow,
Yet smiling said, my boy grows
stronger now.
When pleasures called she simply
/ turned away and SAID,
| dare not leave my babies to tie
/ fed
P strangers hands, besides they are
| so small,
must be near to hear them when
they call.
She Mothered eleven;
Night after night they sat about her
knee,
And heard her tell about what some
day would be,
From her they learned that in the
world outside,
Are cruelty and vice and selfshness
and pride.
From her they learned the wrongs
they ought to shun.
What things to love, what work must
still be done.
She led them through the labyrinth
of youth
And brought eleven men and women
up to truth.
l She Mothered eleven;
Her name may be unknown, save to
) a few,
OF her the outside world but little
) knew,
! But somewhere eleven are treading
virtues ways,
Serving the world and frightening
it's days,
Some where are eleven who temper
; ed, stand upright,
Clinging to honor, keeping her men,
ory bright.
Her toiling life is at an end,
he lives, but in the breast of them.
Fanny B. Shaffer was born at
= kaysviIle, Mo. September 18th, 1873
, and departed this life at her home
: in Fulton County, August %, 1921,
at the age of AZ years, IL months
and II days.
| At an early age she moved with
her parents to Fulton County where
the remainder of her life was spent.
On January 1st, 1896 she was unit
E ed in marriage to Jerome H. Bailey
to which union was born eleven chill
, dren, Mrs. Grace Tanner, Mrs Or
| lena Gorsuch, Mrs. Edna Nofzinger,
; Nina, Magdelaine, Orrila, Ardith,
: Evelyn, Elvin, Allen and Ethan who
, together with her husband, three bro
thers, Corrington of Detroit, James
= and William of Morenci, Mich, one
: half brother, Walter Shaffer and
: three half sisters, I.eota Taylor, of
Morenci, Mich, Lerah Stockman of
: Bryan, Ohio and Alwilda Shaffer of
Tedrow, Ohio and a host of friends
: and relatives are left to cherish the
= memory of kind neighbor, loving
and indulgent wife and mother and
steadfast friend.
At the age of fifteen she was con-
verted to the Christian faith and
later united with the M. E. Church
at Tedrow, Ohio where she remain
d faithful member until her death.
While her manifold duties in the
home prevented her much of the time
from attending public worship yet
she was faithfully true to that great
er trust of teaching by word and ex-
ample the sterling principles of
Christian character and truth to
those about her.
Her unfaltering devotion to her
family, her cheerful, happy disposi-
ton, always the same, always doing
for others, sacrificing many times
her own strength and pleasures even
. giving herself that others might live,
are ualities of true mother and
noblest womanhood.
Loyal and devoted as a wife and
companion she was always ready to
shoulder her part and more of the