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- DEATH CAME SUDDENLY
F. P. Muhlenberg Was Not Left to Suffer Long.
Mrs. Margaret Gernant Muhlenberg, wife of Maj. Frank P. Muhlenberg, and a widely known resident of Galesburg, died shortly after midnight Feb. 4th. at Borgess hospital, Kalamazoo, following an illness of 48 hours. Mrs. Muhlenberg was born in Spring township, Berks Co., Pa., Nov. 2nd, 1839, and was the daughter of Mr. John and Mary B. (Adams) Van Reed. Her marriage to Capt. Frank P. Muhlenberg of the 13th (Sherman’s), U. S. Infantry occurred Nov. 22nd, 1864 in Spring township, where she was making her home with her widowed mother and other members of the family. In 1866, her husband resigned from the army and in the following year came to Cedarville, Ills., the home of her uncle, Hon. John H. Addams, who was a prominent factor in the Lincoln-Douglass Campaign and other affiliations of the state of Illinois during the War of the Rebellion, 1861 to 1865, and subsequent years until his death in 1881. Shortly after in June 1867 they came to Galesburg, Mich. She was first cousin of Miss Jane Addams of Hull House Association and prominent with the Missions of Charity and Woman's Literary club of Chicago, Ills. To those who knew the deceased. her sudden passing away comes with the force of a personal grief. Always in sympathetic touch and esteem of all who knew her, she was ever ready to extend a helping hand to every one when the opportunity offered and was herself the embodiment of all womanly traits. She was gentle in her manners and courteous in her intercourse with everybody and her never-failing kindness of heart, made it impossible for her to do even a doubtful act and many prized her friendship. One of her plain characteristics was a great love for children and when she closed her eyes in death, it was but the beginning of the inheritance of the promise given to the pure in heart. Mrs. Muhlenberg identified herself at an early age with the German Reformed church of Reading Pa., but after coming to Galesburg affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church; there being no Reformed or Lutheran denomination here, and was for many years a well known worker in the interests of the church and a Sabbath school teacher and her life was a blessing in the example it set to the young boys of her class, who had the greatest of affection for her, until compelled to withdraw on account of infirmities of age. Surviving her are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Catherine A. Franklin of Comstock township. Miss Elizabeth C. Muhlenberg of this village, and nine grand children, also two sisters, Miss Mary C. Van Reed and Mrs. Solomon B. Weidman of Sinking Spring, Pa, and a brother Mayberry A. VanReed of Freeport, Ills. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from her late home on Railroad street conducted by Rev. C. E. Mieras, pastor of the M. E. church. Burial was made in Oak Grove cemetery. Semi-Weekly Argus February 7, 1911 page 1
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1839 - 1911 (71 years)
