Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Cowden, Margaret G. May 12, 1877
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Bellevue Leader, May 16, 1877
Bellevue Leader, Bellevue, Iowa, May 16, 1877

DIED-

COWDEN- In Rock Island, Illinois, on Saturday, May 12, 1877, at 7:30 o’clock, 
p.m., Mrs. Margaret G. Cowden, beloved wife of Dr. J. W. Cowden, in the 42nd 
year of her age, of cellular abscess, chronic renal disease, chronic ovarian 
inflammation, acute diffuse cellular and peritoneal inflammation and acute 
inflammation of the bowels.
Her sufferings were intensely acute and agonizing, and notwithstanding all 
that the most skillful physicians could prescribe to alleviate her agony, 
excepting for a brief interval, continued from Thursday in the afternoon until 
welcome death put an end to her great suffering on Saturday. The physicians 
who made the post mortem examination, Dr. Eyster of Rock Island and Drs. Peck 
and Grant of Davenport, were amazed at the remarkable and extraordinary 
complication of disease from which she had suffered; remarkable and 
extraordinary, because of her seemingly good health under the insidious 
encroachment of the disease, she having cheerfully continued in her domestic 
and household duties without the expression of any of the usual symptoms of 
complaint until Thursday, when the abscess ruptured and the attack commenced.
The deceased was an affectionate wife and mother, a woman brilliant in her 
many gifts with a warm heart for those she loved-a heart that never paused to 
calculate either her own interests or pleasure; of rare accomplishments and of 
a refined, friendly sentiment, in whose expression she found the highest, 
purest pleasure; a sentiment unselfish, uncalculating, and for which no 
sacrifice was too great. To those who knew her best those words are but poor 
justice to her memory.
She leaves an invalid husband, six children, a beloved mother, three brothers, 
two sisters and a large concourse of friends to mourn her loss. The funeral 
took place from the family residence, 849 Twentieth street, on Monday 
afternoon. The interment in the Chippianock cemetery. The Episcopal burial 
service was read at the grave, the Rev. Mr. Jenks, of the Cathedral, 
Davenport, officiating, assisted by Rev. Mr. Hench of the Broadway church in 
Rock Island.-Rock Island Argus.


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