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Note: Most articles from one of these places **Fayette Co., Ohio or Highland Co., Ohio Clarinda, Page Co., Iowa or Ottumwa, Wapello Co., Iowa Minnie Belle Sisson Coombs Obituary - 1892 Died - - At her home in Adams township, Wapello county, Iowa, on Saturday, July 9th, 1892, after a brief illness, Mrs. Minnie Belle Combs, aged 32 years, 7 months and 4 days. She was born in Jefferson county, this state, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Sisson. She removed with her parents to Ottumwa when three months old, where she grew up to womanhood and where she married in December, 1882, W. B. Coombs, with whom she lived happily until her death. Such was her religious training and associations that she early gave her heart to the Savior, united with the Congregational church and had always lived a pure and consistent christian life. She was of that joyous and happy disposition, but unusually pure in thought, word and life from her youth. She was generous almost to a fault, ever ready to contribute to the happiness of others, to aid in all good works, to comfort the distressed, to minister to the wants of the sick and afflicted, the poor and the needy, and was ever rea! dy to work for the betterment of society. Mrs. Coombs had been liberally educated, and taught school before her marriage. In march, 1890, she moved with husband and family to their beautiful "home on the hill," where she happily lived and where she peacefully and calmly passed away. During the three years she had lived in the Amador neighborhood she had endeared herself to all who had formed her acquaintance, and she is deeply mourned by the whole community. The number of persons in attendance at the funeral service was probably greater than ever before assembled in Adams towship on a similar accasion. A beloved and dutiful daughter, an affectionate wife, a fond mother, a kind-hearted neighbor, and a useful member in church and society, has passed away. But it is sweet and consoling to know that sister Minnie is not dead to God. That she has only gone on before, to the realms of bliss - only exchanged worlds - where the suffering body is "changed and fashioned like u! nto the glorious body of the Son of God." May the God of all consolat ion bind up the wouded hearts of the bereaved family. Many were the tears that fell to earth as the long procession of sad faces passed by the beautiful casket in which lay the remains of Minnie B. Coombs with her still born infant lying upon her arm in the same casket. O, Minnie! dear Minnie, Not lost but gone before. We will clasp thee again in a long embrace When we meet on the golden shore. A Friend.
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