Mary F. (Leech) Shinn (1830)

Born 1830 in Ohio

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Mary was born in 1830. Mary Leech ... ^[1] 1850 residence in Miami, Logan, Ohio. 1870 residence Perry, Tuscarawas, Ohio. 1880 residence in White Kingman, Kansas 1885 residence in Galesburg, Kansas This profile is a collaborative work-in-progress. Can you contribute information or sources?

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Note: Died April 23, 1899, Mary F., wife of J. F. Gerall, and mother of the editor of this paper; at the family residence, St. Paul, Arkansas, aged 63 years 3 months and 16 days. After a brief funeral service at the family home, conducted by Rev. O. S. Wing, the remains were interred in the White River Cemetery at 5 o'clock Monday evening. Deceased was a daughter of Samuel and Mary Leach and was born in Adams County, Ohio,, January 7, 1836; moved with her parents to Quincy, Logan County, Ohio, about 1839, where she spent the greater portion of her life. She was a resident of this county since 1890. She was married to C. I. Shinn of Shelby County, Ohio, in 1854. Two children were born of this union; the writer, and a daughter now residing in Kansas. Several years after the death of her first husband, she was united in marriage to J. F. Gerall, of Quincy, Ohio, in 1865. But one child, a son, who died in infancy, was born of this marriage. Deceased united with the Presbyterian Church when a girl of fourteen years and in 1866, with her husband joined the Missionary Baptist and lived a consistent Christian the remainder of her life on earth \endash near half a century in her Master's cause and when the silent messenger came last Sabbath night, at the time she was retiring, he found her ready, and in thirty minutes after the warning came, she fell quietly to sleep in her husband's arms, and at 9:30 o'clock her soul took its flight to the God who gave it. She had been an invalid for many years, and at the time of her death was slowly recovering from a severe attack of la grippe suffered during the past winter. It has pleased the all-wise Architect of the Universe to call her from labor to refreshments and we bow in humble submission to his will. She leaves an aged husband, one son, one daughter and one adopted son, two sisters and two brothers and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. A scene is ended that can never be enacted again; the curtain has dropped, and behind its dark folds lies buried all but a happy past, the sweet remembrance of the kind sympathies of an ever loving wife and mother whose counsels were always just and whose reproofs were tinctured with loving kindness.

"Farewell mother, thou are sleeping, As thou never didst before; And in sorrow round thee weeping We our precious friend deplore. Oft have we been filled with gladness By thy sweet kind words of love; But they voice is hushed in sadness; Who, a mother kind will prove? Farewell mother, while we wander In this world a few more days, We will strive with care to ponder All thy counsels and they ways. Farewell mother, thou art going From a world of toil and strife; To a land where sweetly flowing Are the crystal streams of life. Farewell mother, death can never Chill the love we have for thee. Nor the strong affections sever, "til again thy face we see. Years on years have pain and anguish, toil and cares thy heart oppressed; Causing health and hope to languish; But there is for thee a rest. Farewell mother, up to Heaven, Now they happy soul has flown, To that God by whom 'twas given, Bliss and life are now they own. To the grave we take the weeping, Where thou wilt in darkness lie; In death's deep long silence sleeping, Till we all shall fade and die. Farewell mother, we'll endeavor So to live while here below, That we may with thee forever Dwell, where crystal fountains flow." Census: 1860 Quincy, Logan, OH Note: with father's family _UID: AC5FB174A52042D8846EDB4DC84B22F8562D Change Date: 4 Nov 2009 at 13:08

• Census 1880

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF53-NRH : 13 August 2016), John F Gerall, White, Kingman, Kansas, United States; citing enumeration district ED 303, sheet 200D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0384; FHL microfilm 1,254,384.

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"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXQV-Y6R : 12 April 2016), Mary Leech in household of Samuel Leech, Miami, Logan, Ohio, United States; citing family 62, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).