Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Eliza Arminda Harkness Van Horn

This is my great-great-great grandmother!




















Eliza Arminda Harkness Van Horn
Birth: 23 August 1836 Smithfield, Bradford, Pennsylvania
Death: 31 December 1905 North Loup, Valley, Nebraska
Married Obediah Davis Van Horn 11 November 1855




















'The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 62, No 10, p 157, Mar. 5, 1906.

Arminda E. Harkness Van Horn was born in Pennsylvania, August 23, 1838.November 11, 1855, she was united in marriage with Obadiah B. Van Horn at Elmwood, Ill., with whom she lived happily until his death in November, 1895. Nine children were born to them, six of whom survive. When about eighteen years of age, she made public profession of faith in Christ and began the observance of the Sabbath. She has been an honored and consistent member of the North Loup Seventh-day Baptist Church for many years.Sister Van Horn had long suffered from a cancerous disease and her friends are thankful that these sufferings have given place to perfect rest and peace in her heavenly home. M. B. K.


The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 51, No 50, p 799, Dec. 12, 1895.

In North Loup, Neb., November 27, 1895, Obadiah D. VanHorn, in the 61st year of his age. When thirteen years of age he united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Stokes, Ohio. He has always found a church home with our people. He was a man true to his convictions of duty, always seeking the purest and best of life, and loved, honored and respected by all who knew him. In his last conscious moments he commended his soul to God, and prayed for his family and neighbors. Five sons and one daughter, a wife and only brother, are left to mourn their loss. J. H. H.

They Came to Milton, Jon Saunders
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jonsaunders&id=I47374

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