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Note: BIOGRAPHY: From a public "WorldTree" author unknown. BIOGRAPHY: THE FOLLOWING IS THE OBITUARY OF MRS. JOHN S. RINGER
BIOGRAPHY: MRS. RINGER, WIFE OF JOHN RINGER, SR., DIED ON MONDAY MORNINGOF THIS WEEK. HER FUNERAL WAS HELD IN THE U. B. CHURCH ON TUESDAY ANDWAS LARGELY ATTENDED. REV. ADAMS PREACHED THE SERMON AND WAS ASSISTED IN THE SERVICES BY REV.'S STRATTON, HAWN, AND FATHER DAVIS. AT THECONCLUSION OF THE SERMON THE FOLLOWING SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE DECEASED WAS READ.
MARY MAGADALENE RINGER, WHOSE MAIDEN NAME WAS FAUST, WAS BORN, OCTOBER 3,1805, IN LEHIGH COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AND DIED IN LISBON, IOWA, JUNE9,1879. IN 1815, SHE EMIGRATED WITH HER FATHER TO BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO,AND IN MAY 1823, SHE WAS MARRIED TO JOHN RINGER WITH WHOM SHE LIVED UNTIL DEATH, THE TIME BEING ABOUT FIFTY-SIX YEARS. IN OCTOBER 1825, SHE MOVED WITH HER HUSBAND TO MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA. THE COUNTRY AT THAT TIME WAS SPARSLEY SETTLED AND THEIR HOME WAS IN THE WILDERNESS, WHERE THEWILD BEASTS OFTEN HOWLED AROUND THEIR CABIN. THERE THEY REMAINED FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS, WHEN IN OCTOBER 1851, THEY CAME TO LINN COUNTY, IOWA, AND IN THE FOLLOWING SPRING THEY MOVED TO LISBON, AT WHICH PLACE THEY REMAINED UNTIL HER DEATH.
SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF ELEVEN CHILDREN, EIGHT OF WHOM ARE LIVING AND THREE ARE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD. FIVE ARE LIVING IN IOWA, ONE IN INDIANA, ONE IN MISSOURI, AND ONE IN NEBRASKA, REPRESENTATIVES ALL BEING PRESENT HERETODAY, [SAVE ONE]. OF THE GRANDCHILDREN THERE ARE FIFTY-THREE ANDOFGREAT GRAND-CHILDREN TEN, MAKING ALL SEVENTY-FOUR. WHEN MOTHER RINGER WAS ABOUT TEN YEARS HER MOTHER DIED, AND FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS SHE WAS AT THE HEAD OF A LARGE FAMILY, BEARING BRAVELY THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF A MOTHER, TO A FAMILY DEPRIVED OF ITS NATURAL PROTECTOR AND GUIDE.
WHEN ABOUT EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD SHE JOINED THE LUTHERAN CHURCH, SHE DID NOT HOWEVER OBTAIN ENTIRE PEACE WITH GOD UNTIL AFTER SHE BECAME A RESIDENT OF LISBON. AFTER A SERIES OF STRUGGLES, SHE WAS ENABLED TO PRAISE THELORD WITH HER HEART AND FROM THAT TIME UNTIL DEATH HER CHRISTIAN LIFE WAS AN ALMOST UNTRAMPLED SEASON OF JOY. IN1855 SHE JOINED THE U. B. CHURCH, REMAINING FAITHFUL AND TRUE MEMBER OF THE SAME UNTIL CALLED FROM THE CHURCH MILITANT TO THE CHURCH TRIUMPHANT.
SHE WAS A FAITHFUL CHRISTIAN IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD. ON THE LAST SABBATH IN APRIL, 1877, WAS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY SHE EVER HAD OF WAITING WITH GOD'S PEOPLE IN THIS CHURCH. DURING THE FOLLOWING WEEK SHE WAS INJURED BY A FALL AND FROM THAT TIME TO HER DEATH SHE WAS SORELY AFFLICTED BUT DURING ALL DISPLAYED FAITH IN GOD. NEVER HAD I SEEN IN ANYONE A CLEARER EXHIBITION OF TRUE EVANGELICAL FAITH. ALL HUMAN HELP SHE RECOGNIZED AS GOOD, IF BLESSED BY GOD. DAY BY DAY SHE CALMLY AWAITED THE COMING OF THE BRIDEGROOM, EAGER AT TIMES TO BE AWAY. BUT MONDAY MORNING IN NATURES STILL HOUR, THE MESSENGER CAME, AND FOUND HER READY AND FOR HER LIFE WAS CHEERFULLY COMMENDED TO HER HEAVENLY FATHER'S KEEPING. DURING HER SICKNESS SHE NEVER EXPRESSED A DOUBT OF HER PERFECT PEACE WITH GOD. IN CONCLUSION WE NOTE THIS; SHE GOT READY TO DIE WHILE IN HEALTH, AND BEFORE THE DECREPITUDE OF AGE CAME ON, HER OBJECT IN LIVING IN THIS WORLD SEEMED TO BE TO PREPARE HER FOR THE NEXT. SHE WAS GREETED BY SOME WHO LEFT LISBON, FOR THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY AND MAY WE NOT CHERISH THE HOPE THAT ALL OF US MAY LIKE HER BE PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THELORD.
Chronology: She and her husband moved in 1851 from Indiana to Linn Co.Ohio.
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