Content Salsbury Vosburg (1811-1904)
(Mrs. Leander Vosburg)
AN OLD RESIDENT GONE
Content Vosburg was the third child of David and Hannah Salsbury, and was born in Genesee, Ontario county, New York, May 6, 1811. When she was still a child her parents moved to Vermont, and from there to Erie county, Pensylvania. After the death of her mother her father removed with other members of the family to Elkhart county, this state, leaving Content with an older sister, Mrs. Mary Ferguson, who and her husband George Ferguson, were pioneer settlers of West Creek township, this county.Content was married to Leander Vosburg March 11, 1840, and began her married life in Erie Pennsylvania, where her husband followed the ship-carpentering and boat-building trade until the fall of 1867, when they moved to Indiana and located in the vicinity of Lowell, where they have lived until the present time.
Seven children were born; three died in infancy; one boy of ten, was accidentally drowned in the bay at Erie; Martin D. died in Erie in 1871, leaving a wife, daughter and son. His widow and son still live in Erie, and his daughter, Mrs. George L. Stackhouse, lives at Massillon, Ohio. Yates C., the second son of Mrs. Vosburg, followed his parents to this vicinity in 1869, and later was married to Maria, the daughter of the late John L. Worley. The only surviving daughter, Fannie, has remained at home, the solace and support of the aged parents.
"Auntie" Vosburg leaves to mourn her loss her aged husband, a son and daughter, two grand children and two great grand children, two brothers and two half-sisters.
She has been a Christian from her childhood. She united with the Methodist church in Lowell in 1888 while Rev. Tillotson was pastor. She lived a consistent Christian life all these years, and without complaining, and with a beautiful Chirstian fortitude bore the trials which came to her.
More than thirty families of Lowell and vicinity have had her services as a nurse. The Pall-bearers represented families in which she has been a caretaker in sickness. For many years she has been aged and bent, but until the last few years she was as busy as always; even in the last months when able to use her hands at all she has kept them busy at some useful occupation. She retained her mental faculties up to the very moment of her death Saturday evening, February 6, 1904. She had not been able for days to lie down and had remained propped up in a chair day and night. She breathed her last as she sat in her chair by the fire. The end came without warning and painlessly.
Her funeral occurred from the Methodist church, Lowell, at 2 p.m. Monday.
The church was well filled, thus attesting the esteem in which she was held by her friends and neighbors. Her pastor, Rev. D.D. Hoagland, delivered a fine funeral discourse. He was assisted in the funeral services by Elder John Bruce. The Methodist church choir furnished the music. Funeral Director John Castle had charge of the burial services. The following gentlemen acted as pall bearers: F.E. Nelson, Jay Crawford, Henry Hathaway, Albert Foster, C.F. Dickinson and W.C. Nichols. Interment in the Lowell cemetery. The TRIBUNE extends sincere sympathy to the family and friends in their dark hour of bereavement and sorrow.
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