DURBIN, Nancy E. (Filkill) - October 11, 1832 - d. November 17, 1897

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Nancy E. (Filkill) Durbin was born in the state of Ohio on October 11, 1832, and died at her home in Moline, Kansas on November 17, 1897.

On April 27, 1854, she was united in marriage with Samuel A. Durbin.  Three children were born to them, two of whom died in early life. Six years of happy married life passed all too quickly, and then the husband and father heard his country's call to arms and responded quickly, but in 1862, he was laid in the honored grave of a defender of the Union.  Sister Durbin remained a soldier's widow to the close of life.  While engaged in ordinary duties, she was stricken with palsy about 10 p. m., and passed out of this life about twenty-four hours later, not having regained consciousness for a moment.  Her widowed life had been greatly comforted by the loving solicitude and manly support of her son, W. R. Durbin, with whom she came from Illinois to Kansas in 1883 and who remains with other relatives,her mourner.

Sister Durbin had been a faithful member of the M. E. church 49 years, having united with it when converted at the age of 16 years, and was a careful and prayerful reader of the Nible.  She was buried from the M. E. church in the Moline Cemetery,  a funeral sermon having been preached by her pastor, Rev. J. H. Hubbard, from Rev. 14:13.

(published in the Moline Republican, 11/26/1897)