Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
From the Logan county News, Crescent, Logan county,Oklahoma, Friday,
April 16, 1909 front page.
"HARRIET H. TAFT
Harriet E. Taft was born at Yonkers, New York, September 11, 1833. Died in Crescent, Oklahoma, April 6, 1909. Was married to Almon Miner at Youngstown, Ohio, in 1854.
Mr. Miner was a Union soldier in the civil war, his wife accompanying him as nurse for the soldiers for almost 3 years. She never neglected duty in careing for the soldiers on either side when she was needed. Many times when she wasn't on duty she would mold bullets for
the soldiers. During these years of service, she lost one child which was buried at Cameron, Missouri, near a battle field.
Mr. Miner went to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, for his health, where he died February 13, 1889.
To this union 9 children were born 4 of whom survive her. They are;
Mrs. Amon Branson of Billings, Oklahoma; Mrs. A.J. Hahn of Hunter, Oklahoma, Mrs. Ruby Dean of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Mrs. G.W. Sloan of Crescent, Oklahoma. All were at her bedside when she passed away.
Mrs. Miner was a member of the Rebekah lodge, having united with this lodge at Humansville, Missouri, in the fall of 1878. She united with the Crescent Lodge in December, 1894, in which she was a member in good standing at the time of her death.
She united with the Christian Church, January 17, 1898 at Crescent and continued faithful until the summons came calling her home. The funeral services at the church were conducted by Rev. Mart Gary Smith of Enid, after which the Rebekahs took charge and she was laid to rest in
the Crescent cemetery.
'In her grave robes, calmly sleeping,
Lies our mother still and cold,
But her spirit, angels wafted
To the gentle shepherd's fold
One by one the white robed boatman
Takes them totheir home on high,
And our dear home was broken
When our mother said goodbye'"
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/taft/messages/969.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|