Individual Details

Maritta Elizabeth Weddle

(17 Feb 1853 - 27 Apr 1934)

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!DIED OF LOBAR PHEUMONIA AT 1111 S. 2ND ST. DEATH RECORDED IN BOOK VOL.CH-59,PAGE 113 VIGO CO. IN. GRANDVIEW CEMETERY. OBITUARY: MARY ELIZABETH WEDDLE DAY,WAS BORN IN CORTLAND, JACKSON COUNTY,INDIANA. FEBURARY 17 1853. AGE81 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JAMES MADISON DAY, ON APRIL 17 1871, LIVING A DEVOTED LIFE 63 YEARS. MR. DAY PRECEEDED HER IN DEATH FEBURARY 25 1933. TO THIS UNION WAS BORN SEVEN CHILDERN, OF WHOM THREE SURVIVE, REV. HARVEY DAY, MRS. RUBY HENERY, MR. VANCIE DAY ALL OF TERRE HAUTE, FIFTHTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND EIGHT GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS A MENBER OF THEMETHODIST CHURCH AND WAS IN THE WORK OF THE LORD FORTYTWO YEARS, SHE LEFT THIS WORLD CONTENTED AND CALLED HER GRANDSONS TO HER BEDSIDE AND TOLD THEM TO BE GOOD AND LIVE RIGHT, MEANING FOR THEM TO GIVE THEIR HEARTS TO CHRIST. SHE NOT NOLY LEAVES THE LOVE ONES BEHIND, BUT SHE LEAVES A LARGE HOST OF FRIENDS. ALL THAT KNEW GRANDMA DAY LOVED HER AND WAS ALWAYS GLAD TO HAVE THEM TO VISIT WITH HER. MORN NOT THE DEAD MORN NOT THE DEAD, WHO CALMLY LIE, BY GODS OWN HAND COMPOSED TO REST, FOR HARK, A VOICE FROM YOUNDERS SKY, PROCLAIMS THEMBLEST-SUPREMELY BLEST, WITH THEM THE TOIL AND STRIFE ARE OVER, THEIR LABORSEND, THEIR SORROWS CEASE, WHERE DWELLS, SERENE ETERNAL PEACE. MORN NOT THE DEAD, THOGHT LIKE A FLOWER JUST OPENS TO THE MORNING RAY NIPPED BY DESEASE CRUEL POWER THEY FELL FROM LOVE ONES EMBRACE AWAY WHERE BREATHES NO CHILL OR TINTED AIR WHERE FALLS NO DARKNESS OF THE TOMB THEY PROVE THE LOVING SAVIORS CARE AND BLOSSOMS IN IMMORTAL BLOOM. TIME AND DATE OF FUNERAL, APRIL 30, 1934 PREACHER IN CHARGE OF SREVICES, REV. JAMES PADDOCK.

Events

Birth17 Feb 1853Cortland, Jackson, Indiana
Marriage17 Apr 1871Cortland, Jackson, Indiana - James Madison Day
Death27 Apr 1934
Burial30 Apr 1934Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, Grandview Cmtry

Families

SpouseJames Madison Day (1852 - 1933)
ChildRuby Day (1893 - )
ChildJames Harvey Day (1874 - 1955)
ChildPearly Day (1877 - )
ChildTillman Day (1879 - )
ChildVance Elsworth Day (1891 - 1945)
FatherHugh Weddle ( - 1861)
MotherLiving

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