St. Clair County Obits

Percilla Larkin

Appleton City Journal - Supplement
Thursday, June 14, 1894
Died. - At the residence of her son, Merritt Larkin, three miles north of Taberville, June 6, 1894, Mrs. Percilla Larkin, at the advanced age of 81 years. Mrs. Larkin was a native of New York, but removed to the state of Michigan in an early day, where she reared her children, seven in number, to man and womanhood. Two young children, a son and daughter, she buried in that State. In 1866, she, with her husband, one son and three daughters, came to Missouri and settled on the farm where she died, and where she had lived for twenty-eight years. Two children, her eldest son, Merritt, and daughter, Mrs. H.F. Hand, were present at her death and funeral. She also left behind two sons and two daughters in Michigan, and one daughter, Mrs. A.G. Dunbar, in Denver, Colo. Mrs. Larkin had joined the Church of Christ early in life, and lived a quiet and consistent life and died loved and respected by all who knew her. Her life was filled with good deeds and kindly actions, and many were the sad hearts that crowded round her on her burial day. Her children and grandchildren, ever dearer to her than all else on earth, have sustained that ever irreparable loss, one of the best and kindest of mothers. Oh! How all hearts went out to them, when they bent to take that last look. The writer, who has been a personal friend to the family since early life, offers this as an humble tribute of sorrow for the dead, and sympathy for the living. Mrs. Larkin was laid to rest in the Taberville Cemetery by the side of her lamented husband, Enos Larkin, who had preceded her about twenty years. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Murphy, of Rockville, of the M.E. Church.
M.S.L.