JEFFRIES, Patience - Putnam

“West End  News” – The funeral procession bearing the remains of Miss Patience Jeffries, passed through here yesterday enroute to Roachdale where the burial took place in the afternoon. She had many friends here who deplore her death. -kz

 

On Wednesday, after two weeks’ illness of congestive fever, Miss Patience Jeffries died at her home one half mile west of here. She was a lovely girl and had a great many young friends who will miss her so much. Her parents and two sisters, Prudence and Ina, and brother, Charles, will miss her presence in the home circle. The family has the deepest sympathy of the community in their bereavement. She was buried at Roachdale Friday. -kz

Miss Patience Malinda Jefferies was born near Roachdale, Putnam County, Indiana, January 12, 1877, and died near Alamo March 5, 1901, aged 24 years, 1 month and 24 days. She was the second child of Robert D. and Harriet P. Jefferies. Her parents, two sisters, Prudence, and Ina, and brother, Charles C., survive her, a sister, Irene Veva, having preceded her to the grave in 1888. A descendent of one of the oldest and best families in the state, whose numbers are numerous in both Putnam and Montgomery Counties.  The individual character of Patience was a brilliant example for the young people of the community in which she resided. Her quiet gentle manners and thoughtful consideration for the welfare of others, won for her friends without number. While her own name was fully typified in the attentive care given to every household duty. A faithful member of the Daughters of Rebekah, she was holding the position of treasurer in that order at the time of her death. Stricken down in the bright bloom of womanhood when life’s morning was fairest. How fully are mourning relatives and friends made to realize that the “King of Shadows loves a shining mark” when we stand in the presence of death and witness the closing of a noble and blameless life. We feel that such are all too few and with reverence we salute its memory.

The funeral was held here the 8th under the auspices of the Universalist denomination, she being a believer in the final redemption of the human race. The great concourse of people from far and near was ample evidence of the esteem in which the deceased was held. The floral decorations were profuse and costly, many of them from Crawfordsville and Lafayette friends. The pall bearers selected before her death were: Clayton and Leslie Elmore, Ivan and Everett Ham, Andrew Morrison, and Mark Truax. Interment took place at Roachdale. - thanks so much to Sharon