Rymer, Allie Elizabeth Hover

Passed: 1911-02-05

Age: 70

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Death Notice: 1911-02-05

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Information: Mrs. Allie Rymer, wife of Rev. T. H. Rymer after years of suffering, sank to sleep Sunday noon, and her body was laid away in Pine Hill cemetery Tuesday p. m. after services at the U. B. church, Rev. A. P. Backus opening with prayer, Rev. H. T. Watts reading an obituary and her pastor Rev. J. W. Martin delivering the sermon.  The local chapter of Eastern Stars attended in a body.  To the bereaved family, and especially to the stricken husband, sympathy is extended.                                                              Rev. Watt's Obituary Allie Elizabeth Rymer, whose maiden name was Hover, was born in Mercer county, Pa., April 3d, 1840, and reared and educated in Ohio; departed this life February 5th, 1911, aged 70 years 10 months and 3 days.  She was united in marriage to Rev. T. H. Rymer, of the West Virginia Conference of the U. B. Church, and shared with him the toils, hardships and pleasures of an itinerant's life for 41 years.  She was a woman of high aspiration, of more than ordinary intelligence, able and eloquent in prayer and was noted for her ability as a public speaker on moral and religious questions.  She was the first President of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the West Virginia Conference of her church.  She was a delegate to the Woman's General Missionary meeting and general Conference that met at Germantown and Dayton, Ohio.  She frequently made lecturing tours in the interest of the woman's work with her husband on their field of labor.  She once was active in the W.C.T.U. of her county, but because of failing health in the past few years she gave up her public work in the church.  She was deprived of the privilege of attendind public worship in the last few years because her health would not permit her to be in a crowd.  She was the mother of five children, two died in infancy, three are living, namely, Dr. T. E. Rymer, J. F. Rymer and Ora L. Armstrong, all of this place, and three grand-children, namely, Mildred Rymer, Elizabeth Armstrong and Daniel Rymer.  She was a good wife and a devoted mother, she was kind and liberal to the poor, she loved honesty and uprightness and on last Sabbath at 12 o'clock she passed over to the other side in the faith of the gospel she defended.