contributor: Gloria A. Olson

Oconto Reporter 
7/25/1891. 

Died, at her home in Maple Valley, Sept. 18, 1891, at five o'clock in the afternoon, Mrs. Lydia A. Moody, aged 52 years, 6 months and 18 days. The deceased has been a resident of this town for the past 13 years, but during time her gentle, loving nature and eminently christian character have drawn to her host of warm friends who, while bowing submissively to the divine will, deeply deplore her departure and sincerely sympathize with her bereaved relatives. Mrs. Moody had been seriously ill for the last year previous to her death, and while the end was sorrowfully anticipated yet when the dread summons came the grief caused the loving friends at the parting seemed none the less poignant. The deceased was born in Bangor, Me., Penobscot county, in the year 1839, and emmigrated with her parents to the town of Oconto, in 1857, and she married Mr. Ira P. Moody. A husband and seven children are left to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and loving mother. The remains were interred on Sunday, the 20th, at 2 o'clock p.m. and were followed to their final resting-place by a large cortege of sympathizing friends and relatives. The Rev. Burdick conducted the same.