This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Devolt, Metheny, Reeves, West Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4229 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. July 17, 1906. "Many Visits of Death Angel".--".....The death of Mrs. Hannah Metheny removes another one of Fremont county's oldest persons as she had attained the advanced age of 86 years 4 months and 6 days. "Hannah Devolt was born in Monongahela county, West Virginia, March 9, 1820 and there grew to womanhood. On May 12, 1840, she was united in mariage to N. T. Metheny at Fairmont, West Virginia, and on May 24, 1840 she united with the Methodist church and was baptized by Rev. Wm. Hawkins and to this religious body she was a faithful member during her long life. "To Mr. and Mrs. Metheny were born seven children, three of whom died in early life.The names of those living are Alfred Metheny, of Sidney; S. V. Metheny of Anita, Iowa; Mrs. Martha Reeves of Sidney, where she made her home; Mrs. Sarah West of Burlington Junction, Missouri. There are twenty-eight grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. "Deceased was taken sick about January 1st and since that time gradually grew worse from a severe case of dropsy and at times her suffering was intense, but she bore it all patiently and seemed to have implicit faith in her future prospects and selected the passsage of scripture found in Job 5th chapter and 26th verse, which reads as follows: 'Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.' "The funeral services were held in the Methodist church this morning at 10:00 o'clock, Dr. E. Dickinson preached the sermon asssisted by Rev. C. A. Marshall. Interment in the Sidney cemtery." N.B.: An outline of the family of her son Alfred Metheny may be found under Darbys List, being No. 23.--W.F.