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HARRIETT POOR ZIKE

HARRIET POOR WAS BORN MAY 26, 1845, IN JACKSON COUNTY, INDIANA AND DIED DECEMBER 13, 1918, AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER, MRS. T.J. JONES OF NEAR BENTON, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA.

HER AGE WAS 73 YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND SEVENTEEN DAYS. SHE LIVED IN INDIANA TILL 1875 WHEN SHE CAME TO IOWA AND NEARLY ALL THE REST OF HER LIFE WAS SPENT NOT FAR FROM BENTON. SHE MARRIED TO WILLIAM ZIKE , JULY 22, 1860. TO THEM WERE BORN TEN CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM, MARTHA ELIZABETH, DIED ABOUT SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO. THE LIVING CHILDREN ARE MRS. ANNA BELLE DEIBERT OF HOXIE, KS., REV. S.M. OF NORWOOD; MRS. HATTIE FLORENCE JONES OF BENTON, J.W. OF ANADARKO, OK., T.W. OF CUMMINGS, MRS MARIETTA JOHNSON OF WALLA WALL, WASHINGTON, MRS. IDA BAKER OF JAMISON, MRS. JULIA ELIZABETH RAINS OF MOUNT AYR, AND MRS. ZELMA BAKER OF JAMISON. THERE ARE SIXTY GRANDCHILDREN AND THIRTY-NINE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SHE ALSO LEAVES A BROTHER AND A SISTER, JAMES H. POOR AND MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH SUTTON BOTH OF BLOCKTON. THERE ARE MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. HER HUSBAND DIED SEPTEMBER 7, 1914 AND SINCE THEN SHE HAS MADE HER HOME WITH HER CHILDREN.

SHE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND JOINED THE UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH WHEN TWELVE YEARS OF AGE AND HAS HELD THE SAME CHURCH RELATIONSHIP EVER SINCE. SHE FELT THE CALL TO THE MINISTRY EARLY IN CHRISTIAN LIFE AND WAS LICENSED TO PREACH IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES. IN THE WINTER OF 1886-7 SHE HELD A GREAT REVIVAL IN THE OLD BUFFALO SCHOOL HOUSE WEST OF BENTON IN WHICH LARGE NUMBERS WERE CONVERTED WITH MUCH POWER AND DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT. FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS SHE SERVED AS A PASTOR AND CONDUCTED MANY REVIVALS ON HER FIELD OF LABOR. HER LAST MEETING WAS HELD AT JAMISON LAST WINTER. SHE WAS AN EARNEST SPIRITUAL GOSPEL MINISTER AND ALWAYS DELIVERED HER MESSAGE WITH SIMPLICITY AND CLEARNESS AND POWER. SHE WAS SPIRITUAL MINDED AND GAVE THE GOSPEL A LARGE PLACE IN HER LIFE FROM EARLY GIRLHOOD TO OLD AGE.

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