Caroline Watson (KLING) SINCOE

DLING, SINCOE, PAULLING, GAINES, ELLIOTT, DANIELS, HARDING, GIBBS, REYNOLDS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/9/2009 at 12:57:40

The Ringgold Record, 1889

OBITUARY - CAROLINE WATSON SINCOE.

Caroline Watson KLING, daughter of John Wm. and Sarah KLING, was born in the state of Pennsylvania on the 27th day of April, 1846, and departed this life at her home in Benton, Iowa, June 25, 1933.

On the 24th day of May, 1863, she was united in marriage to John C. SINCOE who died March 19th, 1929. To this union were born seven children: Mrs. Jane PAULLING of Clarke, S.D., Mrs. Dora GAINES of Benton, Mrs. B. H. ELLIOTT of Fairfield, Iowa, Mrs. W. A. DANIELS of Kansas City, Kansas, John H. SINCOE of Kellerton, Iowa, and Mrs. O. D. HARDING of Chariton, Iowa, Mrs. H. H. GIBBS of Iowa City, Iowa.

At the age of thirteen she united with the Methodist church and has been a faithful member all her life. She leaves to mourn her death six daughters and one son, fifteen grandchildren, and nineteen great grandchildren and a host of friends.

The funeral services were held at the Benton Methodist church at two o'clock Tuesday, June 27th, 1933, by the Rev. T. S. RHOADES, with burial in the family lot at Kellerton, Iowa. Pall bearers were Mr. Roscoe SINCO, Mr. Curtis ELLIOTT, Mr. Virgil BARNES, Mr. Ben BARNES, Mr. Luther DAVIS, Mr. Merritt REYNOLDS.

CARD OF THANKS.

We are deeply grateful to the neighbors and friends for their kindness, expressed in helpful acts and sympathy generously bestowed during the illness and at the death and funeral.

-THE CHILDREN

IN MEMORY OF GRANDMOTHER SINCO
(Tribute written by a friend)
Dear mother, grandmother and friend so dear
To all of us who knew you here,
We'll miss your voice and smile of love
Tho' our sad loss is your gain above.
You lived the allotted span of time -
Three score and twenty years
Of useful, christian womanhood,
Tho shared with toil and tears.
Your prison walls are broken,
Your soul at last is free
To go and dwell with Jesus
Where you have longed to be.
We will not grieve as without hope,
Nor wish you back where life our souls annoy;
For in that lovely home of God
Is eternal day, and life, and joy.

NOTE: John C. and Caroline W. (KLING) SINCOE were interred at Maple Row Cemetery, Kellerton, Ringgold County, Iowa.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, 2008