Perry, Eunice Anna (Couch) 1828 - 1899

PERRY, COUCH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 2/6/2018 at 13:05:28

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer March 24, 1899, LP, C5

Obituary.
PERRY—Mrs. T. R. Perry was stricken with paralysis last Sunday evening and her spirit passed from its frail body Monday morning, March 20, at 5 o’clock. She was in her 69th year. Eunice Anna Couch was born in Glen Wild, Sullivan county, N. Y. She was educated at Amenia seminary, Dutchess county, N. Y., and at Liberty Normal academy in Sullivan county. While at Liberty Normal she was under the instruction of the late Prof. J. F. Stoddard, so long noted as an instructor of mathematics in educational circles. During her young girlhood she was a successful teacher.
In 1856 she was married to Mr. T. R. Perry and soon after removed with her husband to Howard Center, Howard county, Iowa. For 20 years her husband conducted a large farm and her life was devoted to her home and family.
While a school girl at Amenia seminary there was a revival among the students and she experienced religion, soon after uniting with the M. E. church of that place, of which church she has always been a consistent member.
For the past 18 years Mrs. Perry has been a great sufferer. She has been confined to her room and bed most of the time. A few years ago she received a stroke of paralysis which completely prostrated her. Coupled with paralysis came the partial loss of her eyesight, which almost completely deprived her of one of the greatest pleasures of her life —that of reading.
About four months ago she removed with her husband and daughter to Cresco, where she resided until her death, Her mind during the last years of her life dwelt largely upon the promises of God in regard to the future, and with this thought in mind she chose passages of scripture suitable as texts, expressing her thought of what awaited her in the great beyond. “I know in whom I have believed," and “If this house, this earthly tabernacle be dissolved I have a building of God, a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens."
Bodily affliction did not dim her mental brilliancy. Her active mind recalled the treasures it ha{sic} stored away before the pleasure of study was denied her, and extracted the beauty, wit and wisdom from prose and poetry that her marvelous memory had retained through years of illness. Aspiration was her key note. Her critical mind looked beyond the flaws of common existence for the higher and better phases of life that ought to be. Her ideals will become realities in the heavenly realms where human frailties disappear.
She leaves a husband, daughter and son, and many dear friends to whom she was bound by years of companionship.
Rev. Shaffer, of the M. E. church, assisted by Rev. Holmes of the Congregational church, conducted funeral services at the home Wednesday afternoon, beautiful flowers surrounded her casket, and the frail tenement that had encompassed the brave, strong spirit of wife, mother and friend was laid in Oak Lawn cemetery.

Transcriber's Note: Her gravestone shows she was born in 1828.

Oak Lawn Cemetery
 

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