The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, June 13, 1919, p 4.
Mrs. Louisa Davis Babcock was born in Sullivan county, Indiana, December 1, 1847, and died at her home in this village Monday morning June 9, 1919, aged about seventy-one and one half years.
When but a child she moved with her parents to Welton, Iowa, and here she was married September 22, 1866, to N. W. Babcock. Here, too, she was converted and became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist church when she was about fourteen years of age.
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Babcock, four of whom died in early youth. Their living children are, Mrs. S. L. Clement and R. O. Babcock of this place, Mrs. Orel Van Horn of Rira, Florida.
She and her husband were among the very early pioneers in this valley, coming here in the Spring of 1872. When the Seventh-day Baptist church was organized, she with her husband became a constituent member, and always to the day of her death she was a conscientious earnest christian - unselfish, thotful, kind, going about her daily tasks doing her Master's will. The writer will cherish his memory of her as he has seen her so often in the prayer meeting, the Sabbath School and the morning service - kindly, quietly greeting with a pleasant smile, the members of her family and those with whom she met on these occasions. He remembers her as she waved to him and his wife a greeting only Sabbath afternoon as they stopped to look at her beautiful flowers she loved so much.
She was in her usual health, and the morning before her death she was assisting as usual in doing the family washing - she was alone for a short time in the basement and when her sister returned she found that she had suffered a stroke of paralysis. She was taken to her room, soon lost consciousness and without regaining it her spirit returned to the God she had loved and served so long.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the church conducted by her pastor, Rev. A. L. Davis, and the body was taken to its home in the city of the dead west of the village.
It was noticed that there were no hot house flowers at the funeral but the casket was covered with home grown flowers, the gifts of loving friends to whom she had given flowers from her own yard, and from her own flower beds. The friends of the family extend their sympathies to the grief stricken husband and children in their sad hour.
