Isabella Gregg (1815-1889)

GREGG, OTIS

Posted By: Barry Mateer (email)
Date: 2/10/2018 at 17:39:50

Died, November 28, Isabella Gregg, in her seventy-fourth year, after a lingering sickness of eight weeks, which she bore with patience and Christian resignation. She was a great sufferer and was anxious to go. She craved to be with her companion, who had gone a year and a half before. At the beginning of her sickness she said, “ I wonder if father knows how I suffer.” She was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, and lived there till her marriage, which took place in her twentieth year to Thomas Gregg, then coming to Illinois.
They made their first home in the beautiful prairie of Peoria county. They moved from there to Lee county, Iowa and thence to the home she now owns near Hopeville.
She was taken sick at the soldiers’ reunion, the 3rd of October, and was confined to her bed till her death. She was at the home of Mrs. J.B. Otis where all was done to alleviate her suffering. But she said from the first that she could not get well; talked to her children of her business, and everything understood, so her mind was relieved on that, and from then she was more anxious to go.

Prayer seemed to be such a comfort, often audibly, “Blessed Jesus, take me to Thyself.” Those who knew her know her life was one of great care. Her husband had an apoplectic fit while they lived in Lee county disabling him from attending to business for some time, and since then often threatened with it. So the care of family came mostly on her. She possessed a strong mind and it was bright to the last always ready with willing hands to help the needy and feed the hungry. She was unusually sympathetic to any one in distress. Many who read this will recall to mind the big crowds of meeting people she waited on and the good they received from mother Gregg’s hands. And her children, as they often said among themselves, no one had as good a mother as they. Ever bringing them things it seemed she always knew just what they needed most, and with willing hands to knit, knit for everyone. She loved to work. While we know our loss is our eternal gain…
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She was a mother of eight children, three of whom passed on before. The rest married and gone. Besides their own children, they raised three orphans ….
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Her sister twelve years younger, was with her during her last days. Her remains were taken to her home and services were held there. Her rooms, just as she had left them two months before, were filled with kind and loving neighbors, ready to assist and speak words of comfort to the mourners. Then they carried her to the cemetery nearby, where with a sister, husband, two children, and …. children she was laid to rest.

Osceola Weekly Sentinel
December 12, 1889

Osceola Weekly Sentinel December 12, 1889
 

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