Matilda Rebecca Speas Hilsabeck

HILSABECK, SPEAS

Posted By: Joseph K. Hilsabeck (email)
Date: 1/3/2011 at 16:45:22

The Statesman, Marshalltown, Iowa, Friday, October 15, 1886

Mrs. Wm. Hilsabeck, aged 64 years, died Saturday evening, October 9, at her residence three and one half miles south of this city, in Timber Creek Township. She had been suffering for over three years with asthma, but seemed to be improving lately. From other causes blood poison set in last Tuesday, which caused her death. She came to this county with her husband in 1852, and they have resided here ever since, during which time they have raised a family of eleven children, all but one of who was present at her deathbed. She was a member of the Christian Church and a devoted Christian all her life. She leaves a husband and eleven children and many friends to mourn her loss. She was buried Sunday a large concourse of people attending.