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Ida Mary Metzger Covert

6 Jul 1862 – 17 Dec 1890

Birth	6 Jul 1862
Death	17 Dec 1890
Cemetery	Akron Cemetery Fairview Township , Cowley County , Kansas , USA
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141293191

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Wife of Thomas S. Covert Winfied Courier Winfield, Kansas Thursday, January 8, 1891 page 4 In Memoriam By Rev. D.G. Richards At Stillwater, Okla., Dec. 17th, at 1:30 a.m., 1890, Mrs. Ida Covert, the wife of Thos. S. Covert, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Metzger of Akron, Cowley County, Kansas. It is not often I try to write a few lines i remembrance of any one under such a deep feeling of grief and sorrow and almost ready to question the wisdom of Him who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty water so that we cannot understand his ways as I do of Mrs. Covert. Not because I hesitate to believe that she was a real good Christian, ready for the journey, and that the change was to her for the best. I can hardly realize that her day has come to an end, and her work for the Savior in this world is finished so soon. She was born in Claremont county, Ohio, July 6th, 1862, therefore she was only about five months over 28 years of age when she died. Twelve years ago she came to Kansas with her parents and settled upon a farm near Akron. July 7th, 1890, she married Thos. S. Covert, of Akron. Their married life was only for about 10 months but it was full of happiness until death brought it to an end with very short notice. She was taken sick Dec. 14th, of inflammation of the stomach (chronic gastritis) after only three days of severe sickness. At the opening of Oklahoma her husband settled in Stillwater to which place she moved with her family last spring. She joined the M.E. church when only 13 years of age. She took the yoke of Christ in her youth and continued faithful unto the end. She proved a faithful worker and an earnest Christian in that church until she married when she joined the Presbyterian church with her husband that they might worship God together and work for him in the same vineyard. In this change she did not lose any of her former zeal and Christian endeavor. She was a faithful member of the Walnut Valley Presbyterian church until last September when she and her husband asked for their certificate of membership for Stillwater, which was granted with pleasure and sorrow. With pleasure that we could testify so highly of the Christian character she had formed unto herself while among us; also with sorrow that we would not be her field of labor any more. She was a faithful worker in the church, in the Sabbath school and in the Ladies' Aid Society, always with a Christian feeling and a happy smile. When parting with her father the last time (she was there a few months before she died), she said: "Goodbye father I shall not see you again alive." In her death bed she said "that she did not think when parting with her father and wished him goodbye that she would be the first to enter home." Little before she died she called the friends at Stillwater together and said "that she was not afraid to die," and mentioned her husband and children with whom she felt it hard to part, "wished them goodbye and hoped to meet them in glory," and said as she was going away. "Oh, how sweet it was." She wished to see her mother who was dispatched for but before she came she had gone home to glory. Her mother was there only 15 minutes before the funeral sermon was to be preached by Rev. Foster at 6 p.m. and that was to last 15 minutes, that they may start with her body to meet the cars to carry out her last request to be buried at Akron her old home. So that her mother only had 30 minutes to see that happy face that used to cheer her in troubles and to her a source of comfort in trials. And to look upon the heavenly smile the soul left upon the body by parting for its eternal home in glory. They arrived at Akron at 11 a.m. Dec. 18, at 3 p.m. Rev. G.W. Baker preached the funeral sermon. Our hearts are bleeding with sorrow, while our tears anoint that sacred spot where this beloved Christian is at rest. We know that the change was to her an "eternal weight of glory." But some how we are not ready to be willing for our friends that travel with us the journey of life. Started life about the same time and work together for our Redeemer, to go home and begin to enjoy the happiness of Heaven and receive the reward of their labor so much before us. But we must submit to this when it is the will of God to have different ages to make up the heavenly choir. We can almost imagine that when she saw the glory of her home that she almost stopped at the gates of Heaven to wait for her friends whom she had left behind and that she was asked for whom are you waiting? And she said I am waiting for my father who stands upon the brink of the change and my mother whom I desired to see before I left for my home in glory. My husband and my children who are so near to my heart that we may enter in together. But it is said unto her "enter into the joy of thy Lord" and in the appointed time by your Heavenly Father, they shall come and join you in glory. It is the voice of all to her enter into the joy of the Lord. The church at Walnut Valley, the church at Stillwater, and all who knew her Christian character. Why seek ye the living among the dead. She is not here but is risen. Remember how she speak to you by parting about the house over there. Her father stands upon the banks of the change and on the verge of time only waiting for the call to join his daughter who was the first of the family of five children, and his many friends who have gone before. May the God who has promised to be a Father to the fatherless and a judge to the widow be a source of comfort to her husband and a wall of protection to her five children who have been left without the protection of a mother. It was enough to melt the hardest heart to see the children divided who a week ago never imagined of such a thing. The father kept the oldest at Stillwater. The only girl and the baby who was fourteen months old upon the date of his mother's death was taken by her mother, Mrs. Metzger. The second boy was been taken by Jasper Taylor. Ther other being taken by Mrs. Yeaman. (transcribed by Judy Mayfield) May 2024

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