Jackson County OhArchives Obituaries.....Delay, Rebecca S. (Whitman) August 21, 1881
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The Jackson Standard. Thursday, September 15, 1881.
The Jackson Standard.
JACKSON, OHIO.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1881.
PAGE #2.
   We find the following obituary in the Aften (Iowa) Tribune-News. Mrs. Delay 
formerly resided at Berlin, in this county. She was a sister of G. W. Whitman 
Esq. of Wellston, and half sister of Allen Austin. She was the mother of J. W. 
Delay, of McArthur. Her mother, Mrs. Austin, recently died near Berlin, aged 
90 years:
   Rebecca S, Delay was born in Virginia, December 24, A. D. 1811. Her maiden 
name was Whitman; but on her twenty-fourth birthday she was joined in marriage 
to Mr. Ambrose Delay, a son of Rev. Jacob Delay, one of the pioneer preachers 
of the Ohio Conference. Eighteen years ago it pleased God to call her husband 
from labor to rest, since which time she has walked in the lonely paths of 
widowhood. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom were lifted up in 
early childhood---three in maturer life---four still remain, and may the 
mantle of their mother, her devotion to the cause of Christ, rest upon each of 
them.
   Sister Delay was converted and united with M. E. Church in early life, and 
remained a devoted and consistent member of the same until Sabbath morning, 
Aug. 21, 1881, when, it seems, our Father quietly said to her, "It is enough, 
come up higher." She had completed her morning work and sat down to make other 
preparations for her Sabbath devotions, when lo! the heavens were for her 
opened and she passed up and into the everlasting Sabbath---the "Rest which 
remaineth for the people of God," "Ceasing at once to work and live."
   For nearly seventy years she was an inhabitant of Earth; but although she 
was in the world, she was not of it---having been transformed in early life, 
by the renewing of her mind, she provided what is that good and acceptable 
will of God; and although her feet trod the earth, she never trailed her 
christian character in the dust. Her life is a beacon light to childhood---
becoming it into the ways of wisdom; and assuring it that God will never leave 
nor forsake those who put their trust in Him," and is a standing rebuke to all 
whose heart is not fully set in them to do good. Of her mental impressions, at 
the very last, we know nothing, for her life went out so quickly that she had 
no time to whisper back from the border land. But we have a more sure word of 
testimony than dying utterances---her long life of faith in the Son of God. I 
am assured by one who has known her long and intimately, that no words of 
eulogy I might utter would over estimate her character as a wife, a mother, 
and a christian.   C. Hover.

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