It was January of 1888, and probably cold, in the small German church that towered over the village of Tioga, Illinois. On that frosty day, the minister's sermon covers a Bible text where the writer asks not to be taken away in the midst of his days. It was appropriate for the task at hand. During the funeral for the thirty-six year old, her husband and seven children endure the lesson and wait for their wife and mother to be buried in the graveyard outside the church. The oldest child was nineteen, the youngest a toddler...
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