Fort Dodge Messenger, Fort Dodge, IA
Wednesday, July 15, 1908
Page 4
Died-At her home in Fort Dodge, Tuesday forenoon, July 14, 1908, Mary G. Roberts, wife of the late David Roberts, aged eighty years, four months, nine days. The cause of death was failing strength due to the inroads of grippe and age.
Mary Gordon Harvey was one of eight children born to Robert and Sarah Harvey. Their birthplace was in the neighborhood of Bangor, Maine, where the family lived until she was thirteen years old. Then the call of the West was heard by the father and he decided to move to Illinois. It was October 20, 1841 that they set out with all of their belongings in a covered wagon. There was no opportunity for them to go by railroad then. Over the long highways from Bangor to Buffalo they traveled, a trip of wonder to the wide-eyed children who thought only of the interests of the journey, the delight of holding the reins over the four horse team, with little room left for curiousity (sic) as to the future in store or regret for the severing of the old home ties.
At Buffalo the big wagon was loaded on a passenger steamer for the trip across Lake Erie to Toledo. It was three weeks after the historic burning of the steamer Eric on that lake, in which 300 lives were lost, and to the older members of the party the trip was made under such a shadow of uncertainty as so great a catastrophe would naturally make in times when people were not experienced in travel and the daily telegraph did not tell its familiar round of disasters.
From Toledo they resumed the march through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois to Hampton, a village of Rock Island county on the Mississippi river.
Hampton was their home for a number of years and then when twenty-two years old Mary Harvey was married to David Roberts, a union that lasted until 1891 when the husband passed away. His vocation was that of a potter and they lived at various points in western Illinois and eastern Iowa in which he engaged in that business.
During those years eight children were born to them, four of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Katharine - died in 1886 and three sons survive - George Evan, Morris, and Charles Albert. An older sister Mrs. Jennings, and a brother living in Nebraska also mourn her loss.
Since 1873 she has lived in Fort Dodge and after the death of her husband the home of the mother has been with her sons.
Mrs. Robert's death was from the breaking down of the bodily strength after eighty years of active life - precipitated by the grippe, a malady difficult to identify, different in its effect with different people, but always seemingly searching for the existing weaknesses.
The grippe came in March. After it came weakness, nervous prostration and heart debility.
The end was mercifully peaceful. She realized that she was critically weak and so did the physicians and members of the family. But hope was not given up. The vitality which she had possessed was still relied upon. Though she might not recover full strength it was not thought immediate change for the worse would come. But a couple of hours after midnight on Monday she fell into a slumber which caused an uplifting of spirit to those who attended her for they believed the needed rest had come which might save her life. But it was eternal rest that was offered to her, for without waking and with no evidence of distress she passed away late on Tuesday forenoon.
The funeral will take place from the residence at 919 Third avenue South on Thursday forenoon at ten o'clock, Reverend George C. Fort, pastor of the Methodist church, of which she was a member, will conduct the service.
* * *
The early years of Mrs. Robert's life reached back to the pioneer days of our country. The stories of her childhood were of the Maine woods; of a big happy household with the manifold activities of those primitive days and of the setting out of great lumbering expeditions headed by her father; tales which she told very charmingly to her children and her grandchildren. Her early married life was a continuance of the pioneer struggle with the actualities of existence. The scene shifted to the middle west. Her heart rejoiced over the birth of little children and sorrowed over their death while her hands were busy with the never ending round of simple duties.
She told these stories of her experience with a serene detachment in her later care free years, but they had moulded (sic) her. Her simple strong religious faith was born of her need for comfort and strength. Her heart was all in her family life because she had poured all the treasure of her devotion there. Her interest in modern affairs was keen and intelligent but her kinship was with the old days. A chat with her was a stepping out of our rushing life into the more quiet past and her death breaks a link with the olden times when the simple life and the strenuous life were not talked about but lived.
Transcribed by Leta Koll
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Pursuant to Family databases, Mary's siblings include Roxbee Jennings, Sarah S. Johnson, James J., Martha A. Jennings, Robert G., and apparently two infants that are unaccounted for.
Wednesday, July 15, 1908
Page 4
Died-At her home in Fort Dodge, Tuesday forenoon, July 14, 1908, Mary G. Roberts, wife of the late David Roberts, aged eighty years, four months, nine days. The cause of death was failing strength due to the inroads of grippe and age.
Mary Gordon Harvey was one of eight children born to Robert and Sarah Harvey. Their birthplace was in the neighborhood of Bangor, Maine, where the family lived until she was thirteen years old. Then the call of the West was heard by the father and he decided to move to Illinois. It was October 20, 1841 that they set out with all of their belongings in a covered wagon. There was no opportunity for them to go by railroad then. Over the long highways from Bangor to Buffalo they traveled, a trip of wonder to the wide-eyed children who thought only of the interests of the journey, the delight of holding the reins over the four horse team, with little room left for curiousity (sic) as to the future in store or regret for the severing of the old home ties.
At Buffalo the big wagon was loaded on a passenger steamer for the trip across Lake Erie to Toledo. It was three weeks after the historic burning of the steamer Eric on that lake, in which 300 lives were lost, and to the older members of the party the trip was made under such a shadow of uncertainty as so great a catastrophe would naturally make in times when people were not experienced in travel and the daily telegraph did not tell its familiar round of disasters.
From Toledo they resumed the march through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois to Hampton, a village of Rock Island county on the Mississippi river.
Hampton was their home for a number of years and then when twenty-two years old Mary Harvey was married to David Roberts, a union that lasted until 1891 when the husband passed away. His vocation was that of a potter and they lived at various points in western Illinois and eastern Iowa in which he engaged in that business.
During those years eight children were born to them, four of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Katharine - died in 1886 and three sons survive - George Evan, Morris, and Charles Albert. An older sister Mrs. Jennings, and a brother living in Nebraska also mourn her loss.
Since 1873 she has lived in Fort Dodge and after the death of her husband the home of the mother has been with her sons.
Mrs. Robert's death was from the breaking down of the bodily strength after eighty years of active life - precipitated by the grippe, a malady difficult to identify, different in its effect with different people, but always seemingly searching for the existing weaknesses.
The grippe came in March. After it came weakness, nervous prostration and heart debility.
The end was mercifully peaceful. She realized that she was critically weak and so did the physicians and members of the family. But hope was not given up. The vitality which she had possessed was still relied upon. Though she might not recover full strength it was not thought immediate change for the worse would come. But a couple of hours after midnight on Monday she fell into a slumber which caused an uplifting of spirit to those who attended her for they believed the needed rest had come which might save her life. But it was eternal rest that was offered to her, for without waking and with no evidence of distress she passed away late on Tuesday forenoon.
The funeral will take place from the residence at 919 Third avenue South on Thursday forenoon at ten o'clock, Reverend George C. Fort, pastor of the Methodist church, of which she was a member, will conduct the service.
* * *
The early years of Mrs. Robert's life reached back to the pioneer days of our country. The stories of her childhood were of the Maine woods; of a big happy household with the manifold activities of those primitive days and of the setting out of great lumbering expeditions headed by her father; tales which she told very charmingly to her children and her grandchildren. Her early married life was a continuance of the pioneer struggle with the actualities of existence. The scene shifted to the middle west. Her heart rejoiced over the birth of little children and sorrowed over their death while her hands were busy with the never ending round of simple duties.
She told these stories of her experience with a serene detachment in her later care free years, but they had moulded (sic) her. Her simple strong religious faith was born of her need for comfort and strength. Her heart was all in her family life because she had poured all the treasure of her devotion there. Her interest in modern affairs was keen and intelligent but her kinship was with the old days. A chat with her was a stepping out of our rushing life into the more quiet past and her death breaks a link with the olden times when the simple life and the strenuous life were not talked about but lived.
Transcribed by Leta Koll
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pursuant to Family databases, Mary's siblings include Roxbee Jennings, Sarah S. Johnson, James J., Martha A. Jennings, Robert G., and apparently two infants that are unaccounted for.
Fort Dodge Messenger, Fort Dodge, IA
Wednesday, July 15, 1908
Page 4
Died-At her home in Fort Dodge, Tuesday forenoon, July 14, 1908, Mary G. Roberts, wife of the late David Roberts, aged eighty years, four months, nine days. The cause of death was failing strength due to the inroads of grippe and age.
Mary Gordon Harvey was one of eight children born to Robert and Sarah Harvey. Their birthplace was in the neighborhood of Bangor, Maine, where the family lived until she was thirteen years old. Then the call of the West was heard by the father and he decided to move to Illinois. It was October 20, 1841 that they set out with all of their belongings in a covered wagon. There was no opportunity for them to go by railroad then. Over the long highways from Bangor to Buffalo they traveled, a trip of wonder to the wide-eyed children who thought only of the interests of the journey, the delight of holding the reins over the four horse team, with little room left for curiousity (sic) as to the future in store or regret for the severing of the old home ties.
At Buffalo the big wagon was loaded on a passenger steamer for the trip across Lake Erie to Toledo. It was three weeks after the historic burning of the steamer Eric on that lake, in which 300 lives were lost, and to the older members of the party the trip was made under such a shadow of uncertainty as so great a catastrophe would naturally make in times when people were not experienced in travel and the daily telegraph did not tell its familiar round of disasters.
From Toledo they resumed the march through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois to Hampton, a village of Rock Island county on the Mississippi river.
Hampton was their home for a number of years and then when twenty-two years old Mary Harvey was married to David Roberts, a union that lasted until 1891 when the husband passed away. His vocation was that of a potter and they lived at various points in western Illinois and eastern Iowa in which he engaged in that business.
During those years eight children were born to them, four of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Katharine - died in 1886 and three sons survive - George Evan, Morris, and Charles Albert. An older sister Mrs. Jennings, and a brother living in Nebraska also mourn her loss.
Since 1873 she has lived in Fort Dodge and after the death of her husband the home of the mother has been with her sons.
Mrs. Robert's death was from the breaking down of the bodily strength after eighty years of active life - precipitated by the grippe, a malady difficult to identify, different in its effect with different people, but always seemingly searching for the existing weaknesses.
The grippe came in March. After it came weakness, nervous prostration and heart debility.
The end was mercifully peaceful. She realized that she was critically weak and so did the physicians and members of the family. But hope was not given up. The vitality which she had possessed was still relied upon. Though she might not recover full strength it was not thought immediate change for the worse would come. But a couple of hours after midnight on Monday she fell into a slumber which caused an uplifting of spirit to those who attended her for they believed the needed rest had come which might save her life. But it was eternal rest that was offered to her, for without waking and with no evidence of distress she passed away late on Tuesday forenoon.
The funeral will take place from the residence at 919 Third avenue South on Thursday forenoon at ten o'clock, Reverend George C. Fort, pastor of the Methodist church, of which she was a member, will conduct the service.
* * *
The early years of Mrs. Robert's life reached back to the pioneer days of our country. The stories of her childhood were of the Maine woods; of a big happy household with the manifold activities of those primitive days and of the setting out of great lumbering expeditions headed by her father; tales which she told very charmingly to her children and her grandchildren. Her early married life was a continuance of the pioneer struggle with the actualities of existence. The scene shifted to the middle west. Her heart rejoiced over the birth of little children and sorrowed over their death while her hands were busy with the never ending round of simple duties.
She told these stories of her experience with a serene detachment in her later care free years, but they had moulded (sic) her. Her simple strong religious faith was born of her need for comfort and strength. Her heart was all in her family life because she had poured all the treasure of her devotion there. Her interest in modern affairs was keen and intelligent but her kinship was with the old days. A chat with her was a stepping out of our rushing life into the more quiet past and her death breaks a link with the olden times when the simple life and the strenuous life were not talked about but lived.
Transcribed by Leta Koll
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pursuant to Family databases, Mary's siblings include Roxbee Jennings, Sarah S. Johnson, James J., Martha A. Jennings, Robert G., and apparently two infants that are unaccounted for.
Wednesday, July 15, 1908
Page 4
Died-At her home in Fort Dodge, Tuesday forenoon, July 14, 1908, Mary G. Roberts, wife of the late David Roberts, aged eighty years, four months, nine days. The cause of death was failing strength due to the inroads of grippe and age.
Mary Gordon Harvey was one of eight children born to Robert and Sarah Harvey. Their birthplace was in the neighborhood of Bangor, Maine, where the family lived until she was thirteen years old. Then the call of the West was heard by the father and he decided to move to Illinois. It was October 20, 1841 that they set out with all of their belongings in a covered wagon. There was no opportunity for them to go by railroad then. Over the long highways from Bangor to Buffalo they traveled, a trip of wonder to the wide-eyed children who thought only of the interests of the journey, the delight of holding the reins over the four horse team, with little room left for curiousity (sic) as to the future in store or regret for the severing of the old home ties.
At Buffalo the big wagon was loaded on a passenger steamer for the trip across Lake Erie to Toledo. It was three weeks after the historic burning of the steamer Eric on that lake, in which 300 lives were lost, and to the older members of the party the trip was made under such a shadow of uncertainty as so great a catastrophe would naturally make in times when people were not experienced in travel and the daily telegraph did not tell its familiar round of disasters.
From Toledo they resumed the march through Michigan, Indiana and Illinois to Hampton, a village of Rock Island county on the Mississippi river.
Hampton was their home for a number of years and then when twenty-two years old Mary Harvey was married to David Roberts, a union that lasted until 1891 when the husband passed away. His vocation was that of a potter and they lived at various points in western Illinois and eastern Iowa in which he engaged in that business.
During those years eight children were born to them, four of whom died in infancy. A daughter, Katharine - died in 1886 and three sons survive - George Evan, Morris, and Charles Albert. An older sister Mrs. Jennings, and a brother living in Nebraska also mourn her loss.
Since 1873 she has lived in Fort Dodge and after the death of her husband the home of the mother has been with her sons.
Mrs. Robert's death was from the breaking down of the bodily strength after eighty years of active life - precipitated by the grippe, a malady difficult to identify, different in its effect with different people, but always seemingly searching for the existing weaknesses.
The grippe came in March. After it came weakness, nervous prostration and heart debility.
The end was mercifully peaceful. She realized that she was critically weak and so did the physicians and members of the family. But hope was not given up. The vitality which she had possessed was still relied upon. Though she might not recover full strength it was not thought immediate change for the worse would come. But a couple of hours after midnight on Monday she fell into a slumber which caused an uplifting of spirit to those who attended her for they believed the needed rest had come which might save her life. But it was eternal rest that was offered to her, for without waking and with no evidence of distress she passed away late on Tuesday forenoon.
The funeral will take place from the residence at 919 Third avenue South on Thursday forenoon at ten o'clock, Reverend George C. Fort, pastor of the Methodist church, of which she was a member, will conduct the service.
* * *
The early years of Mrs. Robert's life reached back to the pioneer days of our country. The stories of her childhood were of the Maine woods; of a big happy household with the manifold activities of those primitive days and of the setting out of great lumbering expeditions headed by her father; tales which she told very charmingly to her children and her grandchildren. Her early married life was a continuance of the pioneer struggle with the actualities of existence. The scene shifted to the middle west. Her heart rejoiced over the birth of little children and sorrowed over their death while her hands were busy with the never ending round of simple duties.
She told these stories of her experience with a serene detachment in her later care free years, but they had moulded (sic) her. Her simple strong religious faith was born of her need for comfort and strength. Her heart was all in her family life because she had poured all the treasure of her devotion there. Her interest in modern affairs was keen and intelligent but her kinship was with the old days. A chat with her was a stepping out of our rushing life into the more quiet past and her death breaks a link with the olden times when the simple life and the strenuous life were not talked about but lived.
Transcribed by Leta Koll
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pursuant to Family databases, Mary's siblings include Roxbee Jennings, Sarah S. Johnson, James J., Martha A. Jennings, Robert G., and apparently two infants that are unaccounted for.
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