Marshall County IN Archives Obituaries.....Shunk, Heneritta Hetty Wertz August 15, 1911
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Bourbon News Mirror 31 Aug 1911
Obituary 
The deceased was the third daughter of John and Susan Wertz and was born in 
Somerset county, near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on APril 12th 1832; died at the 
old home farm in Tippecanoe township, Marshall county, Indiana, August 15, 
1911, aged seventy-nine years, four mo., and three days.  She was married to 
Wm Shunk, the surviving husband, on the 21st day of November, 1858, and for 
about eight years after her marriage, resided in the vicinity of her place of 
birth.  On the 21st day of March, 1866, she removed with her family, to 
Marshall county, Indiana, and for one year resided on the Jacob Lint farm, two 
and one half miles northwest of Bourbon, after which the family removed to the 
present home in Tippecanoe township, where, with the exception of a few years, 
when the burdens and toils of the farm made necessary a temporary residence 
elsewhere she resided until her death.
     The deceased was the mother of six children, namely, Franklin C., who 
died at the age of fifteen years, Lucinda J. Eizinger, wife of Andrew C. 
Eisinger, who resides on the home place; Ella, deceased wife of George 
Eizinger, of Ft Wayne, Indiana; Ida E. who died at the age of ten years; J 
Allen, an attorney of East Chicago, Ind., W. Alvin, a merchant of Tippecanoe, 
Ind., also Mrs. Howard Sparrow, a foster daughter, residing three miles east 
of Bourbon.  Besides her husband, the daughter, the two sons and the foster 
daughter, she left surviving, eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild, 
besides numerous other relatives and hosts of friends.
     When quite young, the deceased accepted the Christian faith, and after 
removing to Indiana she became a member of the German Baptist church and until 
her death was affiliated with the Camp Creek District located north of Etna 
Green, Ind.  But her attendance at public worship and manifestations of her 
religious life on public occasions, fell far short of portraying her true 
Christian life, for she not only tried to live up to the doctrines of the 
church and the teachings and precepts of the BIble, but loved and cherished 
all that was just and right and good and noble, her whole soul was imbued with 
honor and integrity while her very nature spurned the appearance of falsehood 
and intrigue.  She revelled in the songs of nature and all living made music 
for her soul; she gloried in the beauty of the flowers and fervently loved all 
of God's creation and the Creator.  She was ever watchful to alleviate the 
sufferings of humankind and was most happy when ministering to the needs of 
the sick and the sorrowing and the oppressed.
     For many years before her death she suffered untold agony from the 
ravages of rheumatism, but she bravely pressed forward and did her whole duty 
as wife, mother, neighbor and friend, until her body could no longer respond 
to the call of her christian spirit and the kindly promptings of her noble 
heart. During the last year of her life she constantly grew more feeble until 
one week before her death she suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she 
could not recover.  Although the last week of her life she was unconscious the 
greater portion of the .....
    The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Summit Chapel, 
conducted by Rev. John F. Appleman of Plymouth, Indiana, assisted by Rev. Levi 
Penterbaugh of Argos, Ind.


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