KIGER, Carrie Stout - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Carrie Estel, daughter of John and Candace Cox Stoup, was born in Fountain County May 12, 1886 and departed this life Dec. 12, 1949 at the home of her eldest daughter in Yeddo after a long illness at the age of 63 years, seven months and 11 days.

  On May 1, 1904, she was united in marriage to O. H. Kiger and lived their entire life on a farm two and one half miles east of Silverwood. After the death of her husband in January 1937, she moved to Kingman with her two younger daughters, which home she kept until failing health forced her to go live with her children, who have given her every care and attention that loving hands could give through her long illness. She was in bed for the past six months and through which she was most patient.

  At an early age she accepted Christ as her Savior and united with the Millcreek Baptist Church, but her religious life knew greater bounds than those encompassed by church walls. To her the Christian life meant a life of service and her whole life was a testimony to this belief. As she went abut her daily duties, she ws never too busy to turn aside to help bear the burden of others as she passed on the way. She was a loving mother, a kind neighbor and a faithful friend.  

  She leaves four daughters, Mrs. Irene Newnum of Yeddo, Mrs. Florence Grubbs and Miss Phyllis Kiger of Kingman and Mrs. Reva Riley of near Sylvania; three brothers, Ross Stoup of Yeddo, Elmer Stoup of St. Joseph, Ill., and Glen Stoup of Swanton, Ohio, and one sister, Candace McKinney of Toledo, Ohio; eight grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and many friends in the communities where her life has been spent.