Notes for Laura A. PENNOCK

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Notes for Laura A. PENNOCK

Contributor writes:

Two corrections I have for your site on what I know about Grace and her family: Her birthday is listed as November 15, but it is, in fact, November 13. You'll see in the notes when I send them later that I have an engraved cameo brooch from her birthday in 1907 with that date. (Rootsweb has the date wrong, too.) Also, her mother's middle initial was A., and not M. Both the 1880 census and William Cutler's History of the State of Kansas list her as Laura A. Pennock.

SOURCE: Mary Jane Foster e-mail 06-05-2005

Mrs. Breyfogle Dead

Mrs. L. W. Breyfogle died on Saturday, June 28, and was buried Sunday afternoon in the Lenexa cemetery. She has been sick several months but during that time was a great but patient sufferer.

Her maiden name was Laura A. Pennock, and at the age of sixteen years she moved with her parents from Valparaiso, Ind., her birthplace, to northeastern Johnson County, Kas. Three years later she was married to Lewis W. Breyfogle a prominent farmer and for thirty-five years longer she lived on the same farm to which her parents brought her in 1864. Mrs. Breyfogle was well and favorably known in Johnson County and elsewhere. She was a woman of strong but gentle character; esteemed and loved by a host of friends. Her home life was beautiful and as a hostess she had the rare tact and grace of making the visitor feel at ease and glad to come again.

The most conspicuous trait of Mrs. Breyfogle's life however, was religious. A member of Asbury M. E. Church, she was faithful and active in all her church duties, which were to her delightful pleasure. In the practice of the greatest of Christian graces, charity, she was an adept. The good in others was seen, spoken of, magnified, and remembered; the mistakes and short comings were covered up, hidden out of sight and hearing by its mantle. She believed in and wielded in her sphere that potent wand, love. Accessible to the best in literature she nevertheless made the Bible her first study, and Him, whom she served her pattern and teacher.

To many it was a marvel how she bore up under the staggering blows of affliction she had been called to endure. The secret was, she did not bear life's crosses alone. A favorite hymn often repeated was, "Dear God, help me to be brave. I know that thou wilt give thy child strength and grace to face whatever comes in the path of duty. But deliver me from dread, dear Father! Help me not to be afraid."

The husband and five children, all grown, are the surviving family. Out of their lovely home and the helpmeet and mother is gone. For thirty-five years this wife was the strong right arm to this husband and father, the comfort and stay to these children. And to all that came into the sphere of her influence she was an inspiration to better being and nobler living. In a common sorrow this community is made kindred.

C. F. S.

SOURCE: Olathe Mirror, July 3, 1902, Page 6

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