Obituary of Isabel Moffett
Transcribed from a photocopy of the original as preserved in a scrapbook by Isabel’s daughter Mary Jane (Moffett) Harris
In Memoriam
Died, the 6th day of February, 1886, Isabel Moffett, aged eighty-nine years, seven months, and six days. She was born the 1st day of June, 1796, in the state of Virginia, Washington County. In her twenty-sixth year she married William Moffett, of the same county, the 27th day of December, 1821. In October, 1823, she came to Indiana with her companion and one child, settling two miles and a half northeast of Rushville, on what, in the future, was the Fort Wayne State road. A cabin was her dwelling place for six years. Fortune favored and a better house was provided, where the prime of her womanhood passed, having the solid comforts – food, raiment and shelter for herself and children, as they were added one by one. Her married life embraced a period of thirty-eight years. During this time she became the mother of eight children – five sons and three daughters. The latter all survive except two sons.
In the month of November 1832, she, together with her husband, united with the Baptist Church, taking on themselves the vows of a public profession of the name of Christ. These pledges were kept until death. As she lived, so she died. Thus a long, somewhat eventful, struggling history closed – yet not without hope. She left a rich legacy to her surviving children in the evidences of her unwavering faith in the object of her trust; always counseling in the evidences of her unwavering faith; commending the love of Jesus to heal every wound and sooth every sorrow of a soul burdened and condemned under sin.
“Let not your hearts be troubled: Ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again, and receive you to Myself, that where I am there ye may be also.”