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Source: GC- Tama Co. Ia Obituaries
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Subject: Elizabeth Williams Carman Obituary
Surname: Carman, Williams, Loughridge, Handley
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From The Chronicle February 1897
Elizabeth Williams Carman, daughter of Aaron and Ida Williams, was born
March 7th, 1839 near East St. Louis, Illinois. Her childhood and early
womanhood were passed at Huntsville, Madison County, Arkansas, where her
0father died and in 1842 her mother married James Loughridge the business
partner of her former husband. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil
war the family escaped to St. Louis. With her brother Alvin Williams she
moved to Mechanicsburg, Illinois, in 1865, engaging in the millinery business.
On Nov. 26th, 1868 she married John T. Carman. Soon afterwaqrd they moved
to Pine Plains, New York, where were born their four daughters. The eldest
daughter died there in 1874, the husband and father in August, 1879. In
1881 the mother and three daughters removed to Toledo, Iowa. In the winter
of 1894-5 she contracted a severe cold which was aggravated by her exposure
during the partial burning of their home Feby 8th, 1895 and soon developed
into consumption from which she struggled hard and unavailingly to free
herself. About 10:30 a.m. Feby 5th, 1897 she quietly passed away. In her
twenty-fourth year while at St. Louis, Mo. she united with the M. E. church.
On her renmoval to Toledo she promptly united with the church here and
has been an efficient worker, especially as a faithful teacher in the Sunday
School for years.
On Sabbath, February 8, 1897, at 2 o"clock in the afternoon, funeral services
were conducted by her pastor, Rev. G. B. Shoemaker, who was assisted by
Rev. J. W. Nelson of the Congregational church. The service was held in
the M. E. church and was attended by a large company of friends and neighbors.
The text was II Tim. 1-12, "For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that
day," and was chosen because it was a favorite text with the departed,
and the one about which she and her pastor had last conversed. The floral
tributes were abundant and beautiful. Tears were shed by many in sympathy
for the friends and in sorrw at parting with one for whom they had such
high regard. The interment was at our beautiful Woodlawn cemetery.