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Articles from the Ida County Pioneer - 1872


May 23,1872 Pioneer

Married in Dubuque, on the 17th of April, Mr. W.A. Poor to Miss Mattie Scott.
Miss Scott is a sister to Mrs. Isaac Bunn of this place, at whose hands we have received a chunk of the wedding cake.

 

June 13,1872 Pioneer

Mrs. Charles Everett, consort of S.B. Everett on Monday the 10th on June, at the age of thirty years of childbirth.


It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. Everett, it was sudden and unexpected, she was a Christian and devoted mother.


It was His will, who works in a mysterious way, that her life should be spared to give birth to twins, two little cherubs, and then in a very few hours, be taken away!
Mrs. Clarissa Everett, maiden name was Spees, and she was born in Oberlin, Loraine County, Ohio on March 31,1942.  At the tender age of two she was bereft of her mother, whose place was afterwards supplied by one who tenderly cared for and became attached to her the same as one of her own daughters.  At the age of fourteen she was struck by the Spirit under a deep conviction and sense of her duty to giver her heart to God and after a protracted struggle of several weeks she made a full surrender to Him, and has since lived an earnest worker for Christ.


At the age of twenty one she went as a missionary teacher among the freedmen of the South and for two years taught in Natchez, Miss. a large part of the time being Principal of a school of two hundred scholars.  This school was called by Mr. Langston, a model school.  After returning home she was afflicted with a fever, contracted during her stay in that climate.


Regaining her health, she had another call from the A.M. M.A. to Portsmouth,VA where she received a call to become the life partner of S.B. Everett, of Matamorma, Illinois, which she accepted, and most true and faithful she has ever been to the vows plighted on the 3rd day of September 1867.  After their marriage they lived awhile in Woodford CO. Illinois and from their they moved to Livingston, where they remained a year and a half.  From then they moved to Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa and they remained there the same length of time, and from Tabor came to this county.

 

June 13,1872 Pioneer

Born to A.L. Houser and wife on Monday last, a girl.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Graves, a boy, on Monday the 10th.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Everett, a boy and girl, on Monday the 10th, resulting in the death of Mrs. Everett.

 

July 18,1872 Pioneer

Born to A.J. Teal and wife a girl on Thursday the 11th.

 

 

July 25,1872 Pioneer

The little girl born to Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Teal on the 12th, instead of the 11th as we were informed last week, died on Friday the 19th, aged one week, lacking about two hours. 
Mrs. Teal is doing reasonably well.

 

July 25,1872 Pioneer

Mrs. E.Benedict was taken suddenly ill last week of premature childbirth, and is still in critical condition.

 

August 1,1872 Pioneer

Born to David Warnock and wife, a daughter on the 20th.

 

August 8,1872 Pioneer

Born to C.C. Brown and wife, on Thursday, the 1st, a nine and half pound boy.


Mother and child doing well.

 

August 8,1872 Pioneer

Died on the 3rd of August, 1872, Rachel, wife of Edward Benedict, after a severely protracted illness, age thirty-three years and three months


The subject of our memoir was born to Joseph and Anna A. Mott, at Wilton, Maine on the 9th day of the 5th month, 1839.  She was an earnest and consistent member of the Society of Friends, an by her every day life and triumphant death has left evidence of the Truth of the Faith she professed.  
A large concourse of friends assembled on Monday the 5th to pay the last and sad respect to the dead and show their sympathy to the living.  Mr. Benedict in his bereavement is left with a family of four small children to mourn their great loss.

 

October 10,1872 Pioneer

A little girl of the family of Mr. Maurrissa, living just north of town, died of fever last Sunday evening, wand was buried the next day.

 

October 17,1872 Pioneer

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Snyder on October 10, a girl.

 

October 17,1872 Pioneer

Married-Al. Swaim, of the Jefferson Bee, and Miss Pauline Given of Des Moines, on the 2nd.

 

October 24,1872 Pioneer

Mrs. John A. Heath, living a few miles down the Valley, died last Sunday morning, we have not learned the particulars.

 

November 21,1872 Pioneer

Mr. and Mrs. Bunn were made happy on the 18th of the month by the arrival at their home of a bouncing baby boy.

December 5,1872 Pioneer

A little female stranger arrived a week ago Monday night and Rev. L.H. Woodworth and wife think it is the sweetest, dearest little chunk of humanity they ever saw.  That’s what we all think of our first baby.

 

December 5,1872 Pioneer

Married at the residence of Judge Moorehead on the 2nd, A.O. West esq. officiating, Mr. Joseph Wright and Miss Nettie Lillard, both of Woodbury County.

 

December 5,1872 Pioneer

Married at the residence of the bride’s uncle in Cherokee County, Rev. Alex Darley officiating, Mr. H.D. Squyer and Miss Susan Garfield.


Mr. Squyers has beeen one of Ida County’s bachelor farmers, and Miss Garfield one of her well known, best school teachers for a number of years.  They returned immediately after the marriage to their farm in this county, where everything was waiting for their new start in life, and they have the congratulations of their numerous friends.