JANE W. RUMMEL BEARD
In the Steuben Republican, Wednesday, December 8, 1915.
Jane W. Rummel, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Rummel, was born in
Columbiana county, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1835. Removed by death from her
old home
near Hamilton, Ind., Nov. 30, 1915, her term of life numering 80 years,
9
months and 18 days. She was nine years of age when her parents
moved from
Ohio to Richland township, Steuben county, Indiana. Reaching the
years of
maturity in this place, she was married to Luman H. Beard, Nov. 21,
1858.
Until his enlistment in the war of the Rebellion, their residence was
near
Edon, Ohio. After the war they located on the farm near Hamilton,
and with
the exception of about 18 years residence in the village of Hamilton,
this
has ever since been their home. Their children number six, and of
these
three died young. Those remaining are, Henry R., Benjamin F. and
Winnie J.,
wife of Cassius Hagerty, and all reside near Hamilton. Besides
their own
children, thirteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren - 24 in
all
are left to mourn of the immediate family. Mrs. Beard was
fervently and
consistently religious, having been a member of the Christian church for
over 62 years. She took great comfort in reading the Holy
Scriptures, and
like all saints who are saints indeed, was especially interested in
those
mansions prepared for all true disciples of the Lord. For ten
days before
her death she knew that she must die, but death held no terrors for her.
She contemplated death with confidence, assuring herself that it would
bring
her up with real life, as life obtains in the realm of departed siants.
Mrs. Beard was one of that gentle, charitable, devotional type of
christians
all too rarely met with in our worldly minded times. To those who
knew her
intimately, her life was a benediction, and in their remembrance she
will
ever continue in the highest esteem for the purity and piety of her
life.
She was one of a family of sixteen children, of whom fourteen became
members
of the Christian church while young. Of her four brothers and two
sisters
still living, George Rummel, aged 88 years, lives near Angola; Jacob
Rummel,
aged 85 years, and Mrs. Caroline Willard, aged 72, reside in
Hamilton. The
other three live in the distant West. Funeral services were held
in the
Christian church, Thursday, Dec. 2, at 11 a.m., Elder L. W. Spayde, her
pastor, officiating, and she now sleeps in the city of the dead beside
the
husband who preceded her to the heavenly city several years ago.
Submitted by: Loren Beard
rootsnwings@mindspring.com