Obit of Elizabeth Schwarbreg (s616) - Canadian County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Anita Montgomery 5 Jul 1998 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ==================================================================== Death of Mrs. Schwarberg. Late this afternoon we are informed that Mrs. Schwarberg, who has been in ill health for the last year, died at her home south of town, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Arrangements are being made for the funeral services to be held Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Schwarberg have lived here since the opening of the C. and A. country and have always taken a prominent part in the affairs of the community, and have a host of friends all over CANADIAN COUNTY. Mr. (sic) Schwarberg was nearly eighty years old. Okarche Times, Friday, December 21, 1906 ----------------- Mrs. ELIZABETH SCHWARBREG(sic) wife of William Schwarberg was born Dec. 2, 1829 died Dec. 21st, 1906. Age 77 years 19 days. She was buried Sunday Dec. 23 at 2 p.m. The deceased was born in New Jersey and in her youth she came to Madison Ind. She came to Springfield, Ill. in 1850 and was married to William Schwarberg October 16, 1858. She was early converted to the Christian faith and lived a true and devoted christian until the end. The last services of love were conducted by Rev. Murry of Kingfisher, using in a beautiful and touching manner that comforting text from Mark, 'She hath done what she could, she is come aforehand to annoint my body to the burying. 'Let not your hearts by (sic) troubled ye believe in God, believe also in me, if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also.' In a sympathizing way he spoke of the alabaster box being broken and that the precious ointment was a mother's love left to soothe, and sustain, and comfort the sorrowing family. 'Mother' the most beautiful word of all, that were spoken brings to us all beautiful, touching memories that nothing else can do. A.E. Bracken of Kingfisher had charge of the funeral services. Mr. and Mrs. Schwarberg have made their home in Oklahoma since 1892, and have many friends, who mourn their loss and sympathize with them in their sorrow. A precious one from us is gone. A voice we loved is stilled: A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. And is thy lovely shadow fled? Yet stop thy fruitless tears: She from a thousand pangs is freed, You from a thousand fears. Though lost, she's lost to earth alone Above she will be found. Amidst the stars and near the throne. Which mothers like her surround. Look upward and your mother you'll see. Fixed in her best abode: What child would not motherless be To give her up to God? Okarche Times, Friday, December 28, 1906 The obit says she was born in New Jersey, but every census gives Pennsylvania as the state of birth. A.M. ----------------- Card of Thanks-- We desire to thank our friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness during the sickness and after the death of our beloved wife and mother. Wm. Schwarberg. Augusta Smith. Amelia Tolbert. Emma Bornholdt. Lulu Dillingham. Okarche Times, Friday, December 28, 1906 ----------------- Mr. WILLIAM SCHWARBERG, a pioneer settler near Okarche, died Sunday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C.B. Dillingham in Oklahoma City. Deceased was for two terms a member of the CANADIAN COUNTY board of commissioners. At time of his death he was 79 years old. El Reno American, February 20, 1913 --------------------------------------------------------------------