Annals of our ancestors; one hundred and fifty years of history in the ...

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ANNALS OF OUR ANCESTORS
away. The good people of the Christian Church there came
forward and showed what Christianity does in such a crisis.
I. N. McCash, the grandson of Uncle Jimmie McCash,
preached her funeral sermon. Her burial took place in Des
Moines. Many honored her for her zeal and good endeavors.
The end must come, and we must see our beloved ones
pass from the hfe that now is to the life that is to come. If
they have lived and worked, have sown and reaped, rejoiced
and sorrowed as men, we cannot but say they have been blessed.
Here we would leave our token that they have lived and loved
and blessed, a memento for their descendants, with a hope
that our ancestors may be remembered for what they have
done. If any of their generations shall linger with tender
thought upon these pages, the pain of reference to their fare-
wells will be repaid. They would wish their children and their
children's children to get much from life and to give much
to it, honoring the names their fathers gave them, not grieving
for natural decay but "rejoicing in hope."