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Surnames: HARRAH, HARRELL, WILSON
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Friday August 23, 1901, Volume
XXV, Number 39, Page 1, Column 3, “OBITUARY. Cyntha Ann Harrah.” [Transcribed on March 24,
2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern
Greene County Public Library.]
All that is mortal of Cyntha Ann HARRAH has been laid to rest in the Bloomfield cemetery.
She was born October 8, 1842, and died August 19, 1901. Born and raised on a farm, she
was acquainted with all the hardships that belonged to farm life in this country in an
earlier day, and doubtless here learned the many lessons in patience that so marked her
after life. One of a family of ten children, she naturally learned early to regard the
rights of others as the equal of her own. Beginning with the affection for her brothers
and sisters she so grew in gentleness, so cultivated the spirit of unselfishness that she
found out the way to “love her neighbor as herself,” and to gently cover the frailties of
others with the broad mantle of charity. Her home life was worthy of emulation. To her
the home was too dear a place to be disturbed by a frown, a harsh word or an ungentle
disposition. What neighbor ever heard from her lips a stormy word? The keen ear of the!
gossip—gatherer never caught the faintest sound from her tongue. She disdained to “sit
in the seat of the scornful,” and the way of the proud and the haughty was far from her
way. When others spoke in bitter and ungracious terms she sat in silence. She was,
indeed, a silent woman, but it will be remembered that “still water runs deep.” Of the
things which the world is disposed to call great, she did very few—but she was good—and
the little things of this life may become the great things of the next life. In God’s
righteous balance the great and the small things weigh equally. The tongues of men shout
the praises of the great, but the choirs of angels chant the praises of the good. Her
church life was beautiful. To be present at every service unless sickness prevented
seemed to have been her motto and her steadfast devotion to this rule was admirable. She
was not ostentatious; she was not heard for her !
much speaking; she did the best she knew. She is gone, but her memory
abides and will ever continue to abide as a fountain of goodness flowing to bless her
family and friends. She lived both by faith and by works; she followed her Master not
afar off. She sleeps in peace.
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NOTES—RLJ: DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street,
Bloomfield, Indiana, Death Record Book H-6, Page 12: Cyntha A. HARRAH, born Oct 8 1842 in
Greene County, Indiana, died 19 Aug 1901 in Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana at age 50.
She was wife of John HARRAH, daughter of James HARRAH, born in KY, and Kizziah WILSON,
born in KY.
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Link to the Obituary of her second husband, John HARRAH [1833IN—1912IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to the Obituary of her mother Keziah (WILSON) HARRAH [1818KY—1890IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.n...
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