Miami Union
8 March 1900
Agnes Templeton
At 1:30 Tuesday morning Agnes, widow of Rev. Milo Templeton passed away at her home on south Short Street, at the advanced age of eighty years.
Mrs. Templeton was a native of Montrose, Scotland, which place she left in 1841 for America, and in 1846 she became the wife of Mr. Templeton, who was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, now occupied by the Main Street Lutheran congregation. Six children were born to this marriage, of whom three died in infancy while the other three, Mrs. J. C. Byrkett, Mrs. Augusta Hobart, and Mrs. C. E. Snyder survive. Mrs. Templeton was an energetic and healthy woman, and no diminution in her physician or mental faculties was observed until several months ago, but since that time the failure was so pronounced that its conclusion was foregone.
The funeral services were held at 10 o'clock this morning in charge
of her pastor, the Rev. Charles Herron.
Miami Union
16 March 1900
Another Mother in Israel Passes Away
Agnes Rintoul was born in Montrose, Scotland, Sept 24, 1819, and died in the early morning of March 6, 1900. In this sentence is the beginning and the ending of a useful life. Through childhood to womanhood, Miss Rintoul spent her time as a pupil in the schools of her native city, and under the care of a private teacher, thus securing a superior education.
In her twenty-second year she came to America, and for a time, was engaged as a teacher in the ladies boarding school in Allegheny. Later she spent some time teaching in the south. In 1846, she was united in marriage to Rev. Milo Templeton who had accepted a call from the Old School Presbyterian church of Troy. Here for five years she, as the pastor's wife, lived and served the people. By the changes that come in every minister's life her husband became the pastor of the Old School Presbyterian church of St. Mary's, and later took charge of the O. S. Church of Marseilles, Ohio, where he died in 1863.
After the death of Mr. Templeton, that she might educate her children, she returned to Troy and again connected herself with the Old School Presbyterian church, where in Sunday School and other church work she faithfully toiled for her Master. She continued her connection with this church until 1869, when by the union of the Old and New School Presbyterian churches, her membership was transferred to the First Presbyterian church, in whose fellowship she ended her days.
For a field of labor she now looked no further than to her church and family. As a mother her love for her children and her unselfish devotion to their interests were ideal.
Being rooted and grounded in the Catechism, Confession of Faith and the Bible, she was a Presbyterian of the staunchest type. To her no entertainment could supplant the training of the reading and expounding of God's Word. Even after her deafness prevented her from hearing the services, she still continued to be found in her pew, thus encouraging her pastor and honoring the house of the Lord by her presence.
But she has gone out from us; her loving life and godly example are only as memories; but those who loved her, and whom she loved, know that she has only gone on before to be with him, who hath prepared for her a mansion, where she no more know pain and sorrow.
Her three daughters, Mrs. J.C. Byrkett, Mrs. A. E.. Holbert, and Mrs. C. E.. Snider, reside in Troy and were at the bedside of their mother when she peacefully passed away.
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