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- Sunman
Mrs. Flora B. Freeland
The death of Mrs. Flora B. Freeland which occurred at her home here Tuesday, Jan. 14 came as a great shock, not only to her immediate relatives but to the many friends who knew her through her long years of residence here.
Always of a frail physique she bore a remarkable vitality as has been evident by her recoveries in past years from a number of attacks of serious illness at which time her life hung in the balance for days but a kind Master spared her to live on to years far past the time allotted man and even though each added year exacted a toll from her strength she never the less retained a perfect use of all faculties and her last year was spent in the enjoyment of good health as in comparison to that of preceding years until the last few days, when a rapid failing of strength gave warning that the end was fast approaching and at the stroke of the noon time hour on Tuesday the infirmitied produced by advanced age completed their work and her spirit went out to Him who had guided her safely throughut a long and useful life.
Flore Belle Ferris, the third eldest of a family of twelve children born to Benjamin F. and Martha Taylor Ferris was born in their pioneer home in Franklin township, Ripley county, Ind., Dec. 18, 1846 and departed this life at her home at Sunman, Ind., Jan. 14, 1930 at the age of 83 years, 26 days. Her girlhood days were spent in the usual manner familiar to that of the backwoods age, by accepting each event of life as a face not to be questioned and by enjoying each day to the fullest despite the absence of those many refinements that luxury brings.
Although the means of acquiring an education were meager and quite inferior to those of later yars, she took advantage of all that the times afforded and being endowed with a gift of intellectual power that enable her to advance rapidly in her studies she soon became recognized as an adept scholar and at the age of seventeen after completing a course of study at Moores Hill College, following her years of work in the little log school house near her home, she accepted a position a s a teacher in the public schools of Franklin township and in later years was a teacher of vocal and instrumental music.
On Nov. 3, 1869 she was united in marriage t Dr. John P. Freeland, then a young graduate physician of Manchester, Dearborn cuornty where they began their long journey as companions that was blessed during the succeeding years by the arrival of five children, all of whom were reared to manhood and womanhood expect a son, who died in infancy.
Born of Christian parents and surrounded at all times by Christian influences she was in the broadest sense a true Christian woman and for more than two score years, until the death of Dr. Freeland in 1901, was greatly devoted to and an active leader in the work of the St. Paul M.E. church and Sunday school, where throughout those decades she rendered service as organist upon all occasions in addition to efficiently fulfilling her duties in various church and school offices.
In addition to her church affiliations she was also identified as a charter member of Enid Chapter No.153 O.E.S. of Sunman, in which order she faithfully performed her work until ill health compelled her to demit some years ago.
A keen observed of everything that occurred about her and a versatile writer, her services as a newspaper correspondent were appreciated by many readers throughout a period of years embracing more than a half century during which time she contributed to the columns of the Cincinnati Weekly Gazette, the Lawrenceburg Press and the Batesville Tribune.
Her life as a whole has been one worthy of emulation and in her sphere of duty she has performed services that shall give her a place for all time to come in the ranks of the good and the true.
At home she was a month of true form ever mindful of the comfort and happiness of those about her. A woman of remarkable memory she never tired of entertaining her listeners with interesting tales of pioneer days and the more than four score of years that she has spent in this vicinity has gained her a vast number of friends, who will miss her.
Brief services at the home Thursday afternoon Jan. 16, were followed by services at the St. Paul M.E. church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Bentley, after which the remains were lowered to rest in the family lot beside the grave of her departed mate, where within sight of the home of her birth and surrounded by the sleeping forms of departed loved ones and friends they will repose until that beautiful morn when all shall come forth to enjoy that which is promised to each, whose life on earth has been spent in accordance with the Master’s wishes.
Immediate relatives surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Lou Morrow of Sunman and Mrs. Dirce Hedges of Indianapolis; two sons, Harold of Sunman and Stanley of Connersville and seven grandchildren, the deceased being the last member of that large pioneer Ferris family so well known to countless numbers.
The Dearborn County Register, Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Thursday, 23 January 1930.
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