EVA WILDER ROSE
Eva Alida Wilder as born August
18, 1852, on
the farm east of Orland. She was the daughter of Orlando and
Ursula Wilder,
early pioneers of this Vermont settlement. She had two brothers:
Lyman, dying
when but a child, and Edson A. Wilder, who passed away April 9,
1927.
Her education was received in the
schools of
Orland, the Ladies' Seminary of Kalamazoo, and at Hillsdale
College. February
21, 1877, she was united in marriage to Milton T. Rose and the
happy couple
took up their home on the farm where she was born. Hers proved
to be a life of
service. Both she and her husband were active members in the
Congregational
church and Sunday school, also in all community affairs they
were ready with
hands and purse to do their part.
Hers was the hand to care for the
sick and to
steady the feet of the aged. Great-grandfather [Rev. Luman
Parsons Rose] and
Grandmother Rose [Emeline Starr Rose] found a welcome under this
roof in their
declining years. Her father [Orlando Wilder] was tenderly cared
for over three
years in his last illness and for over three years she was a
constant nurse and
companion to her invalid mother [Ursula Humphrey Wilder]. Next
the husband
[Milton T. Rose] was stricken with an incurable disease which
terminated in his
death July 29, 1908.
No children were born into this
home, but in
September 1900, Miss Mattie Meyers came into the family and was
loved and
looked upon as a daughter until her death October 10, 1923.
Eva has met the joys and the
sorrows that
fall to each human life and bravely carried on alone much of the
time in her
declining years but strong in the faith of Him who heals all our
afflictions.
She was the last of her immediate
family to
be called home and she answered the summons February 3, 1928,
after a few weeks
of illness, aged seventy-five years, 6 months and twenty-one
days.
She was weary and has long been
waiting for
the call to come and today shrouded in her immaculate robe,
asleep beneath the
flowers she has come back home and we with bowed heads will bear
her body to
its last resting place in God's Acres and placing it beside the
dear ones she
so often expressed a desire to join, may be "pause and breathe a
prayer
above the sod, and leave her in her rest and God."
Funeral services were held at the
home of
Mrs. Julia Wilder, conducted by Rev E.W. Gray. Burial in
Greenlawn
cemetery."
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Handwritten date: 2/28/1928
"In the going of Mrs. Eva Rose the
home
in Coldwater [Michigan] loses one of its most highly respected
ladies, and
companions, and though she was not in good health during her
stay there, she
gave the best of her life she had to give. During the holidays
she came to
visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. E.A. Wilder [Julia] and family,
and was taken ill
while here, not regaining her usual condition of health and
strength upon her
return to Coldwater, and passed away Wednesday morning, Feb. 8.
Thus another
one of Orland's most highly esteemed ladies has passed on to the
great beyond.
Funeral services were held Friday at 10:00 a.m., at the home of
Mrs. Julia
Wilder. Her former pastor, the Rev. E.W. Gray, delivered the
sermon. Burial was
in charge of L.N. Klink, of Angola. Interment took place at
Greenlawn beside
that of her husband."
Submitted
by:
Jim Cox
nyclvr2012@gmail.com