MRS. ANGELIA CRANDALL MOSIER
Angelia T. Mosier, daughter of William Crandall and Ann Babcock Crandall, was born in Persia, Cattaraugus county, New York, January 29, 1849 and died at the Burkett Soldiers Home near Grand Island June 11, 1923. She was one of a family of nine children, all of whom have preceded her in death but one sister, Mrs. Arlie Thorngate, of North Loup, Nebraska, at whose place the funeral was held, June 13, 1923.
When about seven years of age she with her parents moved from New York to Dakota, Wis., where she grew to womanhood. Some years later the family moved to near Brookheld, Mo. She was married at St. Catherine, Mo., June 15, 1867, to W. B. Mosier of Company G, 30th., Wisconsin volunteers. They lived in various parts of Missouri and in other states until the time of Mr. Mosier's death in 1895. Since that time she has lived most of the time at North Loup and Burkett Nebraska. An only son, Oscar, now residing at Denver, Colorado was born to Mr. and Mrs. Mosier.
For nearly thirty years, Aunt Gelia, as she was familiarly known, has been a cripple, unable to make a single step, and her hands crippled so badly that she could scarcely hold her pen, yet she had a large correspondence and wrote many, many letters for inmates of the Soldiers home who were less accomplished than she in the art of letter writing. Inmates of the home, have been heard to remark that she was the angel of the home. Aunt Gelia had many sorrows and disappointments aside from her physical sufferings, all of which she bore in a manner to put most of us to shame. She had a rich Christian experience in early life, but was a member of no church. Her sympathies were largely with the church of the parents, the Seventh day Baptists. Her early life has been a benediction to many, but no one can wish her back to this life of sorrow and suffering. The funeral services were conducted by pastor Schmidt of the Evangelical church. The body was buried by the side of her husband in the North Loup Seventh day Baptist cemetery.
