Clara Skog

The funeral of Mrs. Clara Skog was conducted by Rev. Oscar Purn, pastor of the First Lutheran Church on Wed. afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dahl in Farmersville. Following the services burial was in the Farmersville Cemetery.
A real mother Israel has gone to her eternal home after a long and in many respects blessed journey in the person of Mrs. Clara Skog, whose death occurred on Sunday afternoon, March 6. It was given to her to attain unto a ripe old age, and we are confident too, that she had ripened as a sheaf for God's garner. She was one of the pioneers of the Farmersville community and a Christian woman, whose earnest confession of Christ no one doubted, and has therefore left a legacy to her family and friends in Christina living which will not disappear with the changing conditions in this world. She was a true supporter of her pastors and the churches in which she had found her spiritual home. She was a lover of God's word and the house in which it was preached. She was a woman of prayer and consecration. In the final moments before her lapse into a state of coma, she prayed with her pastor in such a fervent spirit, that it touched us deeply. And when finally she was permitted to close her eyes in the sleep of death we are confident that she had fallen "asleep in Jesus."
Mrs. Clara Skog was born in Dembo, in the province of Vastergotland, Sweden, May 4, 1844. In Sweden she received a real Christian nurture and this was ever a great comfort to her in her trials that met her as a Christian. She was married to John Skog in 1866 in Sweden and shortly after their marriage they emigrated to America and settled at first in Greenview, Ill. In the year 1871 they moved to the Farmersville commuity, where Mrs. Skog remained until her passing. Here she took a very active and prominent part in the church activities of the Lutheran Church, and remained a faithful member of this church until merged with the Lutheran Church in Paxton in 1921. At the time of her death she was 87 years, 10 months and 2 days.
The Skog family has been blessed with eleven children five of whom preceded her in death. Mr. Skog passed away Nov. 27, 1911. Since that time she remained with her daughter, Beda, and since her marriage she remained with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dahl. For the past two or three years she has suffered from heart affliction.
She is mourned by six children, John, Rockford, Ill., Mrs. Ephriam Carlson, Albert City, Ia., Edward and Mrs. Carl Skonberg and Mrs. Edward Dahl, Paxton, and Amandus Skog, Albert City, Ia., 22 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

--Paxton Record.  17 March 1932.