Birth: Mar. 31, 1849 Death: Apr. 16, 1916
Burlington
Coffey County
Kansas, USA
Obituary: Rebecca A. (Hawley) Reed b.3-31-1849 d.4-16-1916. Buried in Graceland Cemetery, Burlington, Coffey County, Kansas.
REBECCA A. REED'S FUNERAL TUESDAY
The funeral of Mrs. Rebecca A Reed was held in the Christian Church yesterday morning. Music was furnished by a male quartet composed of Z.H. Held, Chester Held, Wm. Meairs and Ray Lessig. The pall bearers were her six oldest grandsons, Clement, Raymond, Oren, Glenn and Stanley Reed and Ralph Shobe.Prayer was offered by the regular minister and the sermon was given by W.H. Nation who was her minister for three years, the last she had been able to attend church.Rebecca A. Hawley was born March 31, 1849 and died in Burlington, Kansas, April 16, 1916, aged 67 years and 15 days.On July 24, 1867 she was untited in marrige with Austin Reed; to this union were born eight children, all of whom are living. They are; Mrs. John Shobe, Strawn, Kans; E.M. Reed, Mrs. George Alexander, Myron, Mrs. V.L. Sanders, all of Burlington. Guy C. Reed of Edinburg, Texas; Mrs. W.L. Bivin of Chicago, Illinois, and Mrs. N.B. Mahuron of Bucklin, Kansas. She leaves twenty-three grandchildren and is also survived by five brothers and two sisters.In 1879, she with her husband and four children moved to Kansas and settled on a farm in this county, northeast of Burlington, where she made her home until 1908 when the family moved to Burlington. Her husband departed this life on November 14th of the same year. In early girlhood she became a Christian and united with the Christian Church of which she was a devoted member the remainder of her life. Death was the result of a cancerous growth from which she has suffered for several months yet during the intense suffering of the past five or six weeks she showed the greatest patience, constantly appreciative of every kindness shown her. Her constant prayer was "Thy will be done." She left this message to her grandchildren: "Serve your Master every day you can." Although expressing sorrow that she must leave her family she said she was ready to go and rejoiced that she had been privileged to see them all develop into men and women, and that they with one exception were permitted to be with her to cheer her in her last illness. Her great joy was that every one of her children and all of the grandchildren of sufficient age had united with the church she loved."Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them." Because of her love for her family, her loyalty to the church and her interest in its every department of work, rather than to say she will be missed, her friends say she will be remembered. This is witnessed in the large number of friends gathered and the beautiful floral offerings.Interment was made in the Graceland Cemetery beside the body of her husband.
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Rebecca A. (Hawley)Reed children:
Millie M. (Reed) Shobe
Everett Reed b.1869 d.1925 Graceland Cemetery, Burlington, KS.
Clara (Reed) Alexander b.1872 d.1925 Graceland Cemetery, Burlington,KS.
Myron A. Reed b.6-20-1874 d,7-4-1955 Graceland Cemetery, Burlington, KS.
Jennie R. (Reed) Sanders
Guy C. Reed
Bertha (Reed)Biven-Miller b.1885 d.7-10-1948 Liberal,KS. Cemetery
Mabel (Reed) Mahuron b.8-3-1887 d.11-19-1966 Liberal,KS. Cemetery
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Parents:
William Milnor Hawley (1812 - 1896)
Rebecca Adams Hawley (1814 - 1896)
Spouse:
Austin Reed (1845 - 1908)
Burial:
Graceland Cemetery
Burlington
Coffey County
Kansas, USA
Plot: Reed