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Surnames: ANDERSON, BINGHAM, HAMILTON, HARDISTY, HELMS
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, March 10, 1938,Volume
LXII, Number 19, Page 8, Columns 3 & 4, “DEATH’S HARVEST—HUNTER.” [Transcribed January
22, 2004 from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern Greene
County Public Library.]
Margaret Jane HUNTER, the daughter of Elsberry and Eliza ANDERSON, was born in Center
Township, Greene County, Indiana, April 5, 1858, and departed this life at her own home at
4:15 a.m. March 3, 1938, at the age of seventy-nine years, ten months and twenty-eight
days.
She was united in marriage in the month of February 1874 to Joseph HUNTER.
To this union were born ten children, three that were deceased in their infancy, seven
remaining to mourn their loss, Laura HELMS, Lu Verna HAMILTON, Rose HARDISTY, Luther
HUNTER, Jacob E. HUNTER, Ballard E. HUNTER, George W. HUNTER; twenty-one grandchildren,
and thirty-eight great grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild; also many other
relatives and friends.
Mrs. HUNTER will be missed in her community. Her kind, charitable spirit and sympathy
toward all was a blessing to anyone. She was a faithful wife and good mother.
Others could criticize and find fault, but she saw the good in all and often mentioned
these characteristics which goes to make up a meek and quiet spirit which should be
coveted by all. Her life was one of sacrifice, especially to her children who felt
blessed, when entering her door and receiving her loving benedictions.
We could depend upon her good motive on all questions, especially religion. She never
opposed any one that desired to do right and her neighbors and friends were made better by
having been with her.
She lived for those who loved her, and the nearer she came to her earthly departure, the
deeper her devotion seemed to family and loved ones, but expressed her desire to go and be
with her loved ones, especially her mother who died in Christian victory a number of years
ago.
Her last words were to her son, Jacob, when questioned about her soul, and the hope she
had a Jesus that “He blesses me and I love Him. Her life was her testimony.
She did no shrink from any cross that she was called upon to bear and approached the
valley of the shadow of death with Christian fortitude.
“O, city where the shining gates shut out all grief and sin, well may we yearn amid
earth’s strife thy holy place to win! Yet must we meekly bear the cross, nor seek to lay
it down until our Father brings us Home and gives the promised crown, O, home of bliss!
O, land of light! Where falleth neither shade nor blight! Of every land the brightest,
best, soon shall we there find peace and rest.”
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We wish to express our thanks to friends and neighbors for their sympathy and acts of
kindness extended toward us during the sickness and death of our mother. Also, we
appreciate the efficient service rendered in caring for the remains by the Jenkins
brothers; also the minister, Rev. Ross L. DUGGER and the singers who took part at the
funeral.
Joseph HUNTER, Luther HUNTER, Jacob E. HUNTER, Ballard E. HUNTER, Laura HELMSL, Lu Verna
HAMILTON, Rose HARDISTY.
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Link to the Obituary of her mother, Eliza Ann (BINGHAM) ANDERSON [1821VA—1912IN]:
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