Harriet Arvilla Johnson Langworthy was born at South Hampton, Peoria County, Ill., July 4, 1849, and died at her home in Nortonville, Sunday, February 20, at 11:30.
She was married in 1866, at Farina, Ill., to Elbert R. Langworthy who died in August of 1899 leaving the mother with a family of seven children, two of whom, Merton and Francelia, have since died and five of whom survive her. Mr. and Mrs. Langworthy made their home in Farina, Ill., and in Iowa until 1880 when they moved to Kansas living on the “Seventh Day Baptist Lane” until his death. In 1903 the mother moved to Nortonville where she has since lived.
At an early age she joined the West Hallock, Ill., Seventh Day Baptist Church, and retained her membership in the same denomination until her death, having become a member of the Nortonville Seventh Day Baptist Church when she came to Kansas.
She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Rudolph Legler, of Jackson, Miss.; her five children: Eliza, wife of Ed Barthel, of Nortonville; Elsie, wife of Ernest Randolph, of Farina, Ill.; Shirley, of Nortonville; Jessie, wife of Ansel Crouch, Jr., of Nortonville; and Balie, of Belle Fourche, S. D. She is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and a large number of relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted at the church by Pastor H. L. Polan and burial was made in the Nortonville Cemetery.
H. L. P.
