TOWNE, Jane Elizabeth

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OBITUARY.

Miss Jane Town [sic], was born in Vermont in 1828, where she was reared and spent most of her life. She at a very early age gave her life to the service of Christ and united with the Congregational church, and for more than fifty years was true to her Master’s service. Several of the last years of her life were spent here in Johnson county, and we saw her daily, consecrated Christian life, with all of its modesty and sweetness. We felt the power of her firm but gentle Christian influence, and it is with saddened hearts that we part with one whose life was such an ex­ample of Christ-like purity. It was with anxious hearts that we heard that Aunt Janie was stricken with pneumonia, and with saddened hearts that we learned that at a quarter past ten o’clock on the 10th of February 1894, at the age of sixty‐six years, she entered the realms of cloudless light and went

Out of the shadow of sadness
Into the sunshine of gladness,
Into the light of the blest;
Out of a land very dreary;
Out of the world of the weary,
Into the rapture of rest.

Out of a land in whose bowers,
Perish and fade all the flowers,
Out of the land of decay;
Into the Eden where fairest
Of flowers, and sweetest and rarest
Never shall wither away.

Mrs. J.R.B. 

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 16, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 32, page 4 column 2

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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BLUFF CREEK.

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Miss Janie Town [sic], after a severe attack of pneumonia, which lasted but a few days, departed this life, Saturday, Feb. 10, 1894. Monday her remains were deposited in the Mt. Pleasant cem­etery vault.

Link to Jane Elizabeth Towne’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 208, referencing Book H-17, page 5, records that Jarn [sic] E. Towne, a sixty-six-year-old white female, died 10 Feb 1894 in Bargersville.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson