Ashtabula-Wood County OhArchives Obituaries.....Howells, Anne Thomas November 20, 1863
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The Weekly Perrysburg Journal.  Perrysburg, Wood County, Ohio. Dec 9, 1863, p. 3.
DIED.

	In Bowling Green, on the 20th of November, of cancer, Mrs. Anne 
[Thomas] Howells, in the 82d year of her age.

	The deceased was mother of Dr. J. Howells, of Bowling Green, and of 
W.C. Howells, of the Ashtabula Sentinel, State Senator elect, from the 
Ashtabula District.  We find the following notice of the deceased in the 
Ashtabula Sentinel:

	She was a native of the village of Pont Pool, in South Wales, where she 
was brought up to active business, as the bookkeeper of a mercantile 
establishment, in which she acquired a knowledge of practical life, of great 
value to her and her family, as an emigrant to the New World, in the early part 
of this century.  Her literary education was at a Quaker boarding school at 
Bristol, and her religious training was in the faith of "Friends", though she 
afterwards united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a 
member near fifty years. Her views of the world were liberal, and the lessons 
we learned of her taught us that the conduct of men was the criterion by which 
to judge them, and that good-will and charity are the great adornments of all 
characters, as well as the prince duty of Christians.  As a mother, we remember 
her as a model - devoted, affectionate and patient, cheerfully suffering the 
privations and hardships of a new country, and restricted means, as was the 
common lot of those times.  She lived to see her family grow up, and was 
entering upon a sunny old age, when that most terrible of diseases, cancer, 
fastened upon her in all its horrors, under which she suffered the slow 
approach of death for the last four years.  To the last, she maintained the 
sweetest spirit of patience ever cultivated in the school of affliction-
cheerful, resigned and affectionate through all, and confident in the trusted 
hope of the righteous.

	"She went not down as sets the sun, 

	But like the morning star that melts away

	Into the light of Heaven."

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