Black Hawk County IA Archives Obituaries.....Fithian, Eliza Jane Clark February 18, 1858
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West-Jersey pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1851-1884: March 06, 1858
Died In Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, on the 18th ult., Mrs. Eliza Jane
Fithian, wife of Rev. Wm. Fithian, late of New York.
Mrs. F. was the daughter of Dr. Clark, of Danville, and niece of the venerable Dr.
John Barnard, of Lima, N. York. She was born at Danville, Livingston County, where
she lived till her marriage, when she removed with her husband to Bunker Hill, Ill.
Here they devoted themselves to the Home Missionary work for two years, when
impaired health compelled him to desist, for a time, from labor. In 1846 they
returned to the homestead in Danville, with the full intention, however, of
returning to resume missionary labor on the western field as soon as the Providence
of God should permit.
But Christ had other work for them. The eight following years their labors were
devoted to the church in Sparta, adjacent to Danville, succeeding the pastorate of
the lamented Hull, subsequently of Sandusky City. From this place their labors were
transferred to Pembroke, Genessee Co. After a pastorate there of four years Divine
Providence, in a measure, opened the way, and renewed the purpose of returning
West…
Duty pointed unmistakably to the West, and with Christian cheerfulness she arranged
her household affairs, and in August of 1857, they came to Janesville, Bremer Co.,
and immediately entered upon Home Missionary work in that place and Waverly…
The funeral was attended by a large concourse of people on the 20th ult…

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