Shobe - Clara - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mrs. Clara Shobe was born in Hardy County, Virginia, in 1817, and at the bright and prospective age of 16 was married to John Ermentrout, after which the happy couple moved into the state of Ohio, the bride riding on horseback 400 miles. After a sojourn of about four years in the state of Ohio, they with the other tide of emigrants severed the anchor and moved on to flood Indiana with that people who has made it noted for a people endowed with hardiness, endurance and thrift. They settled in Montgomery County in 1838, in which they resided happily until Sept. 21, 1867, when the husband was called from life’s field to battle leaving wife with the care of ten children, which she carefully reared as monuments of much honor. Mrs. Ermentrout lived in constant faith of the Presbyterian Church and passes away without a blot defacing her record, and up to the evening of her death was apparently in her usual health, but having suffered from paralysis four years before she was only waiting the day that would bring on the second attack, which came and culminated in her death Wednesday morning, Jan. 16.

Short prayer and song service was held at the home residence, after which the remains were laid to rest in the family cemetery, in the presence of many sympathizing friends. This ends the life of one who leaves behind a monument that will not crumble, and whose presence will be left to live on in influence until “Angels shall grasp the golden chime, and forever still the universal bell of time.” - s