WILLIS, Adaline Pavy - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Adaline Pavy, daughter of Samuel and Barbara Bolen Pavy was born in Washington County Indiana May 18, 1829. While yet a child she removed with her parents to a farm in Parke County near the little town of Howard. Here she grew up to womanhood and united with the Christian Church at age 16. She was married to Benjamin Willis, a most excellent man Dec 6, 1863. Mr. Willis at that time lived on his beautiful farm, 3 miles west of Alamo and just in the edge of Fountain County. When she entered this home she went as a ministering angel to orphan children as her conduct toward them has always shown. She died of dropsy superinduced by chronic gastritis Nov 1, 1905 at her home, 308 Walnut Street. In 1884, Mr. and Mrs. Willis left the farm and came to this city where she has since lived. He died here in 1889. To this union one child was born, Emma D, who survives the mother. This daughter has always been delicate and for the past few years an invalid. The devotion of this mother and daughter to each other has always been beautiful. It was pathetic in the extreme as this aged life gradually wasted a way to see this daughter with tottering steps and little frail hands trying to keep the life she loved more than her own. Their lives were so closely blended that the separation lacerates Emma's heart just as a limb taken from the physical body lacerates the body. Mrs. Willis has always been a most excellent woman, intelligent, kind, social, self-sacrificing, charitable and always neat and tidy in her dress and home. She was the kind of a woman so much needed at the present day when so many homes are in peril. Her devotion to her church was worthy of emulation. Her name was not merely written on her church register, but down deep in her heart she was a Christian. She visited the sick, soothed the dying, gave to the poor, in fact her conduct all through life was Christ-like. Only one member of her large family survives her and that is John Pavy, of Cates, Ind. Besides this brother and her daughter, she has hosts of relatives and friends to mourn her. The funeral occurred 2:30 pm. this afternoon at Christian Church conducted by Rev. Earl Wilfley. The interement was at Oak Hill Cemetery.