Randolph County, Indiana
Obituaries
The Winchester JournalMrs. Fred Crosby, 31, died Thursday morning at her home in Upland. She underwent an operation for the removal of her tonsils last week and was thought to be getting along nicely until a few days ago, when she took a turn for the worse.
March 3, 1921
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YOUNG WIFE DIES FROM OPERATION
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Her death came as a great shock to her many friends in this city, where she was born and reared. She was formerly Miss Nora Carson. Besides the husband and parents, Mrs. Crosby is survived by a brother, E. W. Carson, and two sisters, Mrs. Otis Williams and Mrs. Herbert Crawford, all of Winchester, and a brother, T. L. Carson, of Cincinnati.
The body was brought to this city on Friday, arriving here at 2:39 from the north, and was taken to the home of her sister, Mrs. Herbert Crawford.
Funeral services were held in the First M. E. church Saturday morning in charge of the Rev. O. I. Martin. Burial in Fountain Park Cemetery.
Contributed by Gina Richardson
The Winchester JournalIt has been said that no sooner is man born than he begins to die, and while there is an element of truth in this observation, nevertheless, the resisiting force, termed life, ever strives for the supremacy. And how perfectly natural, since life, with all its varied and various relationships, carries with it a charm that abides the keen reverses of this stern age. But to some life is a beautiful and fascinating reality, wherein golden opportunities are constantly presenting themselves, elevating in the very challenges that they carry. To Nora Meriam Crosby, life was a God-given trust which must be sacredly guarded, devotedly developed, and, at last, carried back to the Creator, as sunclear as when it came from His omnipotent hand.
March 3, 1921
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Mrs. Fred Crosby
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The subject of this sketch was the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Carson and was born in Winchester, Indiana, October 10, 1889, and was translated into the Land of eternal light February 24, 1921, aged thirty-one years, four months and fourteen days.
She was united in marriage to Fred Crosby September 19, 1908. She was a birthright member of the Friends church, but in 1915 she transferred to the Methodist Episcopal church.
About ten days ago she underwent a minor operation, but last Saturday an infection developed that resulted in her death.
Mrs. Crosby's life cannot be measured in terms of the thirty-one fleeting years of her mortal existence. Her womaly spirit, touched and inspired by the Divine Father, has had a breadth and depth of meaning that cannot be limited by years. She was an exponent of that kind of optimism that drives away clouds, dissipates the fogs of doubt, and acts as a tonic to a depleted world. Her religious faith found its fullest expression in a vital experience, that shone with the radiance of a noon day's sun. During the recent revivals she scaled the higher heights of spiritual experiences, and caught the vision, splendor and when she came to the hour of her departure there was no pall, no dark valley, no chilly waters. With a smile playing about her lips she spoke of scenes not visible to the weeping eyes of her stricken loved ones. Quietly and calmly she slipped away into that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
She leaves a devoted husband to whom she clung to the last, a father and mother, two brothers, Carl Carson, Cincinnati, Ohio, and George Carson, Winchester, Indiana; three sisters, Mrs. Otis Williams, Mrs. Herbert Crawford, both of Winchester, Indiana and Mr. and Mrs. John St. Myers of Union City, a number of nieces and nephews, and scores of devoted friends who have felt the wholesome influence of this charming life. How triumphant in death! How glorious in Heaven!
Contributed by Gina Richardson