Medina-Summit-Lorain County OhArchives Obituaries.....Root, Louisa Hart November 13, 1902
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Medina County Gazette  Nov 17, 1902
A PIONEER

Mrs Louisa Root, More Than 90 Years of Age, Passed Away

She had lived in Ohio During Most of Her Life.  Some Pioneer Experiences.
Religious Experiences.  A Happy Life, Peaceful Old Age and Serene Death:

Mrs. Louisa Root, aged 90 years and 2 months died at Medina, O. Thursday 
November 13, 1902 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herman Holmes, where she 
had lived since her husband's death 31 years ago.

Louisa Hart, daughter of Jesse Hart of Vermont, later of York State, was born 
at Unidilla Forks, N.Y., Aug 26, 1812, the same year coming to Springfield, 
O.  When she was 11 years old her father built the large brick gambrel roof 
house yet standing and occupied seven miles southeast of Akron on a very high 
hill.  Nearby he had a peach orchard and raised apricots and peaches.  The 
newness of the country we may partly realize from the fact that while on her 
way home from a neighbor's she once met a wild cat, but a path in an opposite 
direction to another neighbor's got her safely home.  The same year, 1823, she 
went with a half sister to Huntington and moved to Elyria and she walked the 
30 miles not even getting onto the wagon when a stream was crossed.  She 
remembered the east and west falls at Elyria and indians coming into town 
once, bringing a young bear.

When she was 16 she taught school in Wadsworth, and I think, there are few old 
people yet living perhaps who were her pupils in 1828.  Wilson and Hard were 
names we heard her speak of often.  Dances were held at her father's house 
commencing in the afternoons and supper given, but she experienced religion 
very young (11yrs or near it), and never danced after, I think.  Her father 
sent her to school in Tallmadge to what was then called "the Academy."  There 
she met S.H. Root, and Dec 20, 1831 they were married at her father's home and 
came to Medina, settling first on the farm east of the Fenn school house, but 
after buying of Anson Clark, who later studied fot the ministry and once 
preached in the Episcopal church here.  Marcus McIntyre is now living on the 
farm 9 1/2 miles north of Medina. where the old log house prayer meetings were 
often held, and it was frequently called the minister's home.  Elder Randall 
stopping there on his way to and from preaching in Beebetown.  All relatives 
and friends, found it a welcome half-way place between Akron and Wellington, 
when crossing the country with horses.

About 1837, while he was building a church in Weymouth, the lived there for a 
short time.  In 1843, I think, her father told her he would give her a lot and 
build a house for her if she would go and live near them.  So they, with their 
five children, Harriet, Eliza, Marshall, Amos and Sarah moved to Mogadore, 
where Jesse and Martha were born, and in 1856 they came back onto the Medina 
Farm and built a house in 1857.  A large walnut log lay in a lot not far away 
and was intended to be used in building, but on looking it over it was decided 
too rotten and unfit for use.  But a dream convinced her the inside was sound 
and you can now see stairs, pantry and cupboards in the house from that same 
walnut tree.

Almost 50 years of happy married life had passed when, the month before 
November 5, 1881, death came and took Mr. Root, the first from the family.  
The resignation, peace and comfort that came to her and always stayed with her 
is beyond description.  The text at her funeral, "Thou wilt keep him in 
perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee," was 
proved to be true in her life, and especially so after her giving him up, two 
days before his death when she was brought to say, "Thy will not mine be 
done." 

Church services, prayer meetings and missionary meeting she always attended, 
if not a teacher, she was in Sunday school.  The Morning Star, a Free Baptist 
paper, she took for 57 years and read till this past summer.  Old hymns she 
sang till the day before her death.  No disease, no sickness, no medicine, 
beautiful death, triumphant death!

So many times she would repeat to people
  "When I'm to die, I care not to know
  United to Jesus I'm ready to go."

Her son, A.I. Root, who mirrors her Christian Life, got here from Michigan to 
see her Tuesday morning.  She was so glad to hear his pleasant voice for when 
at home in Medina he always came Sunday, to see his mother.  Her descendants 
are many, one great grandchild is married, four children were at her funeral, 
and one sister and one brother.  The pall bearers she knew in their childhood, 
and the minister, -in her 90 years of life she had known so many different 
ones, but the manner in which he conducted her funeral services were decidedly 
truthful, and pleasing to all relatives and friends.

                                              M.E.H.

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