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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] !! Free Press; Henry Co, IA; Apr 3, 1879
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 17:04:11 -0600


The Free Press
Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
April 3, 1879

SWEDESBURG
Mrs. Snell, wife of Wm. Snell of this vicinity died suddenly on Monday the
17th, of congestion of the brain. She had been suffering considerably since last
summer from the effect of overheat or sunstroke, but was about until the
Saturday night previous to her death when she was stricken down with congestion
of the brain and died on Monday leaving a husband and two children to mourn her
loss. I am informed that she was thirty-six years and four months old, just half
of which time was spent in married life. She had been a professor of religion
for the last ten years and a member of the Methodist church prior to her removal
to this place. Her remains were taken to Illinois for burial whither the
children stay with their maternal grand parents.
Charlie Foster and Minnie Brown were made happy yesterday by entering into
a life partnership at the matrimonial altar and Winfield Hickman and wife
happier still by the by the birth of a fine boy. Thus it is.
March 28th, 1879

JACKSON
Jackson is a lively township but unlike her border ones, has no towns or
villages to brag about.
Mr. Ketcham is very low with the consumption and his recovery is very
doubtful. His son-in-law Marion Johnson returned from York Nebraska a few days
ago, his family coming on ahead of him via the train.
Wm. Robberts has been preaching in Missouri for the past two years, has
moved in the neighborhood of Oak Grove school house and has been holding
meetings there with good success, and has formed a class, they call themselves
"The Church of God," more familiarly known as the "Winebenarians." May they have
success and turn many from the paths of sin.
The Methodists are putting on foot the project of building a new church
somewhere near Mr. Johnson's, which I think is very much needed; I hear they
have very near the required sum, and I do hope they will push it forward and not
do as they done before. The people will find it much more convenient than at
present, holding their meetings in the school houses.

PERSONAL
-Henry Jones returned to his home in this city on Monday last. He has been
teaching school in south-western Missouri. Henry is one of the young men of the
right stamp and proposes to "paddle his own canoe." He reports spring there far
in advance of here.
-The Misses Hare and Woodward have finished their terms at Hillsboro, and are
spending a spring vacation at home.
-Mr. and Mrs. S.S. Murphy returned to their home in Keosauqua on Wednesday.
-Miss Ida Aylesworth arrived here Thursday, direct from Canada, when she left,
the snow was six feet deep, which is two feet less than it has been there this
winter.
-Asa Lewelling, principal of the Reform school at Pontiac, Illinois, is in town
visiting his brother L.D. Lewelling.
-Miss Savanna Murphy, who has been to Hannibal, Ill., for two months past
returned last week.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/


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