OBITUARY: Amanda Jane Lovelace, Hardy: TABOR IOWA.
Amanda Jane Lovelace, born September 25, 1839 Grayson County, Virginia. She was married when fourteen years of age to Isaac A. Hardy and lived successively in Tennessee, Kentucky and Iowa. Coming to the community of Tabor during the Civil War. To them were born eleven children, eight daughters and three sons, of whom five have passed to the other shore.
Her husband died in 1896 and in the following year she married to Joseph Shepherdson, who died in 1904.
Five days previous to her death she attended the funeral of her daughter, Mrs Geo. Surface, at which time she contacted pneumonia, which aggravated by bruises sustained by a fall from the depot platform at Pacifis Junction, brought on her demise, which occured at the home of her daughter, Mrs Edgar Bagon, on the morning of December 26, 1910.
One son and one daughter were able to be present at the funeral services.
She leaves six children, 28 grand children and 12 great-grandchildren to mourn her departure, beside many other relatives and friends.
Her disposition was kindly and sge was possessed of patience which secured to her the friendship and good will of all who came within her association.
Short services were held at the home and the funeral sermon was preached at the Baptist Church of Tabor by Charles Fry of Hurlington, Iowa, on Wednesday, December 28, 1910.
The children living are Mrs Mary Daily, Straub, Oklahoma: Mrs Lucinda Rohrbeck, Shenandoah, Iowa: Mrs Martha Brittain, Tabor, Iowa; Mrs Elizabeth Hiatt, Coin, Iowa: Andrew J. Hardy, Imperial, Nebraska: Geo. A. Hardy, Shenanndoah, Iowa.
