The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
March 24, 1886
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Column 2On Thursday evening last at the home of the bride's father, Esq. Geo. W. Ewing, in St. Mary's township, Mr. John Dickinson, of Harmony, and Miss Julia M. Ewing were married by Dr. Booz, of Hancock township. An excellent supper was served and good cheer prevailed. Long live the good people of these families.
The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
October 19, 1932
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Column 2Passes On
Juliette M. Ewing, the second daughter of George Washington and Eunice Cox Ewing, was born May 10, 1859, about five miles east of Bentley, Illinois, and passed away Tuesday morning, Oct. 11, 1932, at the age of 73 years, 5 months and 1 day, having spent almost her entire life in the neighborhood of her birth.
She attended the country schools and on March 18, 1886, was united in marriage to John Dickinson of the same neighborhood, and they left after a few days for Lane County, Kansas, where they took up a homestead and built a sod house. In this little home a daughter was born in the summer of 1888. She lived but thirteen days and was buried there. In the spring of 1889 they returned to Illinois and located on the farm which for 43 years has been her home.
To this happy union, eight other children were born, six of whom have grown to useful manhood and womanhood. They are: Thane E., and Olof B. of near Carthage, Ill.; Mrs. Gladys Crawford, of Denver, Colo.; Galen, of the St. Marys neighborhood; Miss Myrtle at home, and Mrs. Mabel Barber of near West Point, Ill. Two sons passed away in infancy.
During the early years of her married life, she with her husband united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Elm Tree, and reared their family to respect the church and its teachings.
She was a very quiet, retiring disposition, finding her greatest joy in her own home, where she daily proved her great strength of character by the calmness and poise with which she met the every day happenings of life, no matter how disturbing.
She ruled her home with great love and infinite patience and "her children rise up and call her blessed and her husband praiseth her."
She was a friendly and dependable neighbor, lending a helping hand wherever needed. She and her husband were always among the first to reach those in trouble. Her comforting presence will be sadly missed in the home and community.
Besides her husband and children, there survive to mourn her passing, two grandson, Glen B. Dickinson and Junior Dickinson; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Smith, of Lawrence, Kansas, and Miss Myrtle Ewing, who for several years has lived in the Dickinson home, and one brother, William Ewing, of Richland, Kansas. Her parents, one sister, Mrs. Pearl White, and one brother, Ettore Ewing, passed on to the better country many years ago.
A host of relatives and friends extend their love and sympathy to the family in this time of bereavement and their own grief finds expression in the words of her husband when the end came, "This closes a noble life and breaks a happy home."
Thus ends the life history of Mrs. John Dickinson, a good friend and neighbor, ready to help the needy and distressed and always ready to do what her hands found to do. Everything was done to save the life of this wife and mother they loved so well, but her life's work on earth was done and her Savior called her to the land where no traveler ever returns.
Rev. C. R. Booth, pastor of the Carthage Methodist church, spoke words of comfort to the bereaved ones, and Mrs. Harry Faulkner and Miss Clara Reed sweetly sang, "Some day we'll understand," and the "Sweet By and By," accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Walter Cloud.
The pall bearers were Fred and Bert White, Albert Shelor, Clifford Alexander, Vernon Kimbrough and Nople Cox. Interment in the family lot in the Holland cemetery Thursday, Oct. 13th.
