OBITUARY: Ann Sophia Hoffman Linn, Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon 

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Jacksonville (Oregon) Post, Saturday, 24 Aug 1907, p. 4

Died-At the family residence in Jacksonville, Ore., Aug. 20th, 1907, Ann
Sophia Linn, aged 65 years, 4 months and 25 days.

Mrs. Ann Sophia Linn, the gentle, the tender, the true wife and mother is
dead.

Tuesday night the black camel of death knelt at her gate-a harbinger of
that unwelcome visitation which chasteneth the rich and the poor, the great
and the lowly, alike. That death which rides on every breeze and lurks in
every flower has again exemplified the immutability of Fate, the
omnipotence of a power which recognizes neither seasons nor harvests,
genius nor mediocrity, youth nor old age.

The deceased was a pioneer, she crossing the plains from Indiana, the place
of her birth, with her parents in 1850. Her parents, the late William
Hoffman and wife, located at Jacksonville and the deceased has resided here
ever since. On the 31st day of August, 1860, she was united in marriage to
David Linn. From this union seven children were born, two of which have
passed away. Those now living are Corinne Linn of Jacksonville, Margaret
Linn and Fletcher Linn of Portland, Mrs. L. J. Gay of Seattle and George D.
Linn of Eugene. Besides her children and husband, David Linn, she leaves
five sisters to mourn her loss. They are Mrs. C. C. Beekman of
Jacksonville, Mrs. M. H. Vining of Ashland, Mrs. Kate Hoffman of
Jacksonville, Mrs. J. C. Whipp of Fallon, Nevada, and Mrs. George B. Dorris
of Eugene.

Death has so many doors to let out life, and yet in this instance many are
they who fain jealousy would have guarded the exits, for to lose one so
noble, so pure and so good with the pure sweet song of beautiful living
upon her lips is to feel the hush of sorrow and see the gray clouds of
despair. Of her beautiful life it is said that when she lay on her bier
with sealed lips, closed eyes and folded hands many who had been less
favored in worldly store, those who have found the tide of life's battle
flowed against them; who have found their paths full of thorns for their
naked feet, came with loving hearts and weeping eyes, and with trembling
lips told between sobs of the favors she had done them, and asked God's
blessing on her name and her memory, and do you doubt that the great Father
noted those falling tears and heard those broken sentences, from the lips
of His lowly children?

Funeral services were held at the family residence Friday at 2 o'clock
p.m., and interment made in the beautiful Jacksonville cemetery, Rev. Robt.
Ennis officiating.

The battle of life for Mrs. Linn is o'er. But she did not have to die to
show the sterling worth of her character. She so lived that friends knew,
appreciated and loved her. And now the memory of her is an exquisite
benediction; something to be treasured as the hallowed remembrance of a
grief that draws us nearer home!