Oldshue - Emma Jarvis
Source: Waveland Independent Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana March 15, 1918
The entire community was shocked on Saturday morning by the unexpected death of Mrs. J.E. Oldshue. Funeral services were held at the home on Monday afternoon in charge of Rev. JT Boyer. Music by male quartet. Interment at Maple Ridge. Emma Blanche Jarvis was born near Guion, Parke County, Ind April 17, 1860, and departed this life on the morning of March 19, 1918 aged 57 years 10 months 20 days. She was daughter of William Jarvis who reared in Parke County who died March 19, 1916 and of Mrs. Virginia Switzer Jarvis who came to Parke County as a school teacher from Eaton, Ohio and who still survives. Emma Blanche Jarvis spent her girlhood days with her parents on a farm near Guion. She was educated in Waveland Academy, Bloomingdale Academy and Valparaiso University. On December 26, 1881, she was married to James E. Oldshue, an acquaintance of her childhood days, a neighbor of an adjoining farm. To this union were born 3 daughters who survive: Miss Vivian of Waveland; Mrs. Grace Hancock of Montezuma and Miss Mary Virginia, a student in the American College of Physical Education, Chicago. Jan 3, 1891, Mrs. Oldshue, with her husband, made profession of her faith in Christ her Savior, and united with the Presbyterian Church of Guion, where she remained a devoted and exemplary member of that church until she united with the Waveland Presbyterian Church Jan 27, 1918 - a membership in the latter church in the providence of God, so brief, but in Christian fellowship ties, goes back more than three years and in blessed, sacred memories in the future continues as long as a present acquaintance survives; for Mrs. Oldshue expressed as much joy in the happy fellowship with this people as the members felt in her coming into the fellowship of this church. This subject for a biography is replete with virtues that beckon for recognition, that raise hands in benediction, that inspire thoughts that cannot be expressed in brief compass, that build memorials that are more durable than granite. Seldom does one hear of another one with so many good things qualified with no faults. Language cannot be extravagant in composing this kind of biography. But our subject would magnify the virtue of modesty and disclaim any merits for the many good things said of her. But this is why friends can speak as they do. Her goodness was natural; it flowed in a channel unobstructed. We say now at life's close what we should say - what in life's existence she would not have us say - "She was full of goodness, and nothing too good can be said of her."