Wife of Reason Howard.
Iowa State Register
DIED--In Des Moines, January 14, 1892. Mrs. Nancy Howard, one of the oldest settlers of Saylorville. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 17.
Mrs. Howard was born in Franklin county, Indiana, January 10, 1808. She was married to Regin Howard in 1829 and moved to Iowa in 1841, coming to Polk county in 1848, which has since been her home. She joined the M. E. church in 1852 and was one of the seven charter members of that church in Saylorville and an active worker in the early Sunday school. She was a devoted Christian mother, a kind neighbor and a faithful and earnest worker in church and Sunday school. The large number of friends and neighbors who gathered in the Saylorville church to pay their last tribute of respect bore eloquent testimony to the life and character of the deceased.
The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. B. St. John of North Park Congregational church, from Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the days of death, than one's birth."
Mrs. Howard leaves four children to mourn her death. Elizabeth Wheeler and Robert Howard of Madrid, Marion Howard, of Saylorville, and Telman Howard, of Bondurant.
Iowa State Register
DIED--In Des Moines, January 14, 1892. Mrs. Nancy Howard, one of the oldest settlers of Saylorville. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 17.
Mrs. Howard was born in Franklin county, Indiana, January 10, 1808. She was married to Regin Howard in 1829 and moved to Iowa in 1841, coming to Polk county in 1848, which has since been her home. She joined the M. E. church in 1852 and was one of the seven charter members of that church in Saylorville and an active worker in the early Sunday school. She was a devoted Christian mother, a kind neighbor and a faithful and earnest worker in church and Sunday school. The large number of friends and neighbors who gathered in the Saylorville church to pay their last tribute of respect bore eloquent testimony to the life and character of the deceased.
The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. B. St. John of North Park Congregational church, from Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the days of death, than one's birth."
Mrs. Howard leaves four children to mourn her death. Elizabeth Wheeler and Robert Howard of Madrid, Marion Howard, of Saylorville, and Telman Howard, of Bondurant.
Wife of Reason Howard.
Iowa State Register
DIED--In Des Moines, January 14, 1892. Mrs. Nancy Howard, one of the oldest settlers of Saylorville. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 17.
Mrs. Howard was born in Franklin county, Indiana, January 10, 1808. She was married to Regin Howard in 1829 and moved to Iowa in 1841, coming to Polk county in 1848, which has since been her home. She joined the M. E. church in 1852 and was one of the seven charter members of that church in Saylorville and an active worker in the early Sunday school. She was a devoted Christian mother, a kind neighbor and a faithful and earnest worker in church and Sunday school. The large number of friends and neighbors who gathered in the Saylorville church to pay their last tribute of respect bore eloquent testimony to the life and character of the deceased.
The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. B. St. John of North Park Congregational church, from Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the days of death, than one's birth."
Mrs. Howard leaves four children to mourn her death. Elizabeth Wheeler and Robert Howard of Madrid, Marion Howard, of Saylorville, and Telman Howard, of Bondurant.
Iowa State Register
DIED--In Des Moines, January 14, 1892. Mrs. Nancy Howard, one of the oldest settlers of Saylorville. The funeral was held Tuesday, January 17.
Mrs. Howard was born in Franklin county, Indiana, January 10, 1808. She was married to Regin Howard in 1829 and moved to Iowa in 1841, coming to Polk county in 1848, which has since been her home. She joined the M. E. church in 1852 and was one of the seven charter members of that church in Saylorville and an active worker in the early Sunday school. She was a devoted Christian mother, a kind neighbor and a faithful and earnest worker in church and Sunday school. The large number of friends and neighbors who gathered in the Saylorville church to pay their last tribute of respect bore eloquent testimony to the life and character of the deceased.
The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. B. St. John of North Park Congregational church, from Ecclesiastes 7:1: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the days of death, than one's birth."
Mrs. Howard leaves four children to mourn her death. Elizabeth Wheeler and Robert Howard of Madrid, Marion Howard, of Saylorville, and Telman Howard, of Bondurant.
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