Person:Eva Kaffenberger (1)

Alma Record Leader, 29 January 1897 Alma, Michigan The funeral services of Mrs. Muhn were held in the U. B. church at one o'clock on Wednesday of last week. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Bodine, of Alma, assisted by Elder Hoyt of St. Louis. The text was from Rev. 14:13. A large congregation of relatives, acquaintances and old-time friends were present to pay their last sad tribute to the dead. Among the former were the immediate members, six in all, of the Muhn family: Mrs. Flewelen, Mrs. Bid Church, Mrs. Elisha Church, Mrs. Jud Church, and the two brothers, Adam and Louis Muhn. The remains were interred in the Wright cemetery. Mrs. Muhn, in company with her husband, Ludwig Muhn, emigrated from Burton county, Ohio, and settled here in Pine River township in 1863. A short time after this Mr. Muhn entered the army and served in the war of the rebellion. He died on his way home after discharge. We are not informed as to the details of Mrs. Muhn's life from that time to this; but we have this picture set before us: A widowed mother as sole guardian of a family of six young children, in a new and wilderness country, subject to all the drawbacks, hardships and depredations incident to pioneer life. We are able to see at a glance that the lives and future welfare of this young family all depend upon the ability and the heroism of this devoted mother to toil and to plan, and to sacrifice for weary years to come. We know that the battle was finally and nobly won; and she lived to see every member of her family respectably married and settled in pleasant homes. We know she must have been a kind and good neighbor to have earned the respect and esteem in which she was universally held by all who knew her. For years she professed the Christian faith, and on her death-bed evidenced her hope of a blessed immortality beyond the grave. Very appropriate indeed ws the text from the sermon was preached on tihs occasion: "Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Loard from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." Rev. 14:13.

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