Middlebrook, Elizabeth Ann (Frazier) 1880 - 1919

MIDDLEBROOKS, MIDDLEBROOK, FRAZIER, FARNSWORTH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 12/29/2024 at 12:25:49

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Apr. 4, 1919, P3 C5

A number of our Village people attended the funeral of Mrs. George Middlebrooks Sunday. Funeral services were held from the state line church, Rev. L. Grabau officiating.

Source: Cresco Plain Dealer Apr. 11, 1919, P7 C6

OBITUARY.
MIDDLEBROOK.
Elizabeth Ann Frazier was born March 30th, 1880, at Fairfield, Wayne county, Arkansas. Here she spent her girlhood days and grew to womanhood. Her home training was that of a Christian household. She joined the Presbyterian church as a girl with her parents, brothers and sisters.
She was united in marriage Feb. 13, 1900 to George E. Middlebrook, at Bentonville, Benton county, Arkansas. Together with her husband she united with the Methodist church and in so far as her health and duties would permit was always a faithful and active member of the church until her death.
Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Middlebrook, two of whom died in infancy. All but twelve years of their life have been spent in this vicinity. She passed away Friday, March 28th, 1919, at her home near Granger, Minn. There lives to survive her, her husband, and six children, Kitty, (18), Leonard, (15), Lily, (13), Denver, (9), Hobert, (6), Floyd, (4), one brother Riley J. Frazier, of Canton, Minn., two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Farnsworth, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Miss Mary Frazier of Canton, Minn., She was a good, kind and faithful wife and mother, her goodness extended to the point of sacrifices. She ill be missed not only by the immediate family, but by her many friends as well. Funeral services were held in State Line church. Interment was made in the Barnes cemetery three miles south of State Line church, Rev. Lawrence E. Grabau officiating. Music was furnished by the Granger choir, Miss Clara Dell Wickham, organist, Mrs. C. M. Tierney choir leader, who sang a number of the deceased’s most favorite hymns. Written in Memory of Mrs. George E. Middlebrook.

There comes a time in the lives of men,
And women too, I ween,
When the sum of our strivings is reckoned up,
And the total product seen.
When the joy and the triumph that ours today,
Atones for the failures of yesterday.

When the rift in the clouds shows the shining sun,
Which illumins the record of victories won,
And the tears that are shed in the midnight gloom,
Have watered the roses now in bloom,
Shall be by the great Assayer weighted,
And the justly accounted tribute paid.

The promise fulfilled, the debt is paid,
And by this measure shall each be weighed,
By a balance which held in a mighty hand,
The recording Angel shall understand,
And success and failure adjusted right,
By the spirit which strengthens to arm to fight,
And my commission may come today,
Or withheld till the stone shall be rolled away.

CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank the many friends, who so kindly assisted us during the illness death of wife and mother.
George E. Middlebrook and Children.

Barnes Cemetery
 

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