Jackson County OhArchives Obituaries.....Delay, Theresa (Bristol) April 21, 1878
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The Jackson Standard, FEBRUARY 5, 1885.
The Jackson Standard.
JACKSON, OHIO.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1885.
PAGE #2.
JOHN H. MACKEY, EDITOR.
A CITIZEN OF LONG AGO.
   We have received a Centerville (Iowa) paper containing a memoir of Mrs. 
Terasee Bristol Delay, who died near Centerville, Appanoose County, in 1878. 
She was born near Frankfort, Ross County on the 15th of June, 1812. Her father 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and after the war closed he moved to 
Ohio. The Bristols were pious people, and soon after their arrival in Ohio, 
their house was thrown open to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was used as 
a meeting house by the circuit preachers. Jacob Delay Sr., and John Ferree, 
were among the ministers holding services at their house. On the 20th of 
November, 1834, deceased was married to Vincent Delay, of Jackson County, and 
moved with him to this county. Her place of worship was then changed to Salem 
Church, and her house was made a home for the ministers. The writer of the 
sketch in the Iowa paper, is Catharine Delay McNeal. In the sketch she 
says: “Well do I remember Brothers Jamison, Stewart, Clark, and others that 
were circuit ministers, and Brothers Furgeson, Cartlitch, Holliday, &c. I 
think it was under the preaching of Donahue she was converted. I have often 
heard her tell of the light that shown upon her at that time, and of the great 
love she felt for her savior.”
   In the fall of 1854, she with her family started to move West. She was 
thrown from the wagon, by an accident, and severely hurt, and never fully 
recovered from the injury. In September, 1855, they arrived in Appanoose 
County, Iowa, and soon after, during the severity of winter, she contracted a 
severe cold which settled upon her lungs, and eventually caused her death. The 
good old lady was peaceful and trustful to the last. But a short time---only a 
few moments, before her death, she told her husband that she was almost gone, 
but added “it is not hard to die, Jesus is with me.”
   The reference to the old time preachings in Jackson County will doubtless 
call up a long train of pleasant---and some sad---recollections, in the minds 
of some of our older readers. Those were the pioneer days of the Church in the 
county, and it is pleasant to think that those old fathers and mothers in the 
church go on until their last moments on earth faithful to the master and 
rejoicing in His love. It speaks volumes of encouragement for those younger 
souls that have more recently started in the way. The life of Mother Delay was 
not lived in vain, and her example will long have its influence for good in 
the world.


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