Marriage - State of Vermont, Windsor County, SS
Be it remembered, that at Chester, in the county aforesaid, on this the twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, 1832, Mr James M. Hawley of Ellington, Chatauqua county, State of New York, and Miss Charlotte L. Petty, of Chester county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, were duly joined in marriage by me, Uzziah C. Burcap, minister of the Gospel.
Mrs J.M. Hawley died at her home in north Clarinda at 6:30 o’clock, last Sunday morning, after a three days’ illness from lung trouble. Mrs Hawley was in good health the first of the week, and was in good spirits until she caught a severe cold on Wednesday. The cold settled on her lungs, and while it would not have been a serious affliction for a younger and sturdier person, it proved too much for her fragile strength, and after the brief illness mentioned, she passed away very peacefully on Sunday morning. She was more than 88 years of age, having been born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on February 17, 1813. Her maiden name was Charlotte L. Petty. She lived there with her parents until she was 18 years of age, when she was married to James M. Hawley, on September 26, 1832, at Chester, Vermont. The young couple went from there to the then far west,--Jamestown, New York, where Mr Hawley followed his trade as combmaker for several years. In 1835 they moved to Detroit and opened what later became the American Hotel. There the appointed governor of Michigan territory, Mr Mason, with most of the members of the legislature, boarded with the family and a merry life was led in the talented company. From Detroit the family moved to Rochester, Mich., where Mr Hawley engaged in the milling business. This he followed for twelve years, and in 1849 made another big move westward, landing in St Joseph, Mo., in the winter of that memorable year of California gold discoveries. With a partner named Sorley, Mr Hawley successfully conducted a store at St Joe, for two years, and later, when his partner was called to Scotland, he took charge of their store at Filmore, Mo., where the family lived for two years. Selling out there Mr Hawley took a part of his stock and struck north into Iowa, landing on the present site of the town of Hawleyville, then known as McAlpin’s Mills. Mr Hawley opened a store in a little one room house, with a slab lying on two barrels to serve as a counter, and there he built up a good patronage before he returned to Filmore for his wife and family. He brought them to Hawleyville in a buggy, and Mrs Hawley was led to exclaim frequently along the way, “James, where in the world are you taking us?” For there was no other settlement within thirty or forty miles in that early year of 1853. The family lived at Hawleyville, Mr and Mrs Hawley being prominent in educational and church movements, and after a few years there they came to Clarinda, where they have ever since made their home.
Mrs Hawley united with the Baptist church when a girl but sixteen years old, and was a faithful christian all of her life, she and her husband joining the Presbyterian church after coming here. Grandma Hawley’s nature was always sweet and contented, and she was admired by all who knew her, for her many admirable womanly qualities, strong even in her old age and reflecting the good that she had one when younger.
It was her fear that she might die before her husband. They had been married longer than any other couple in this part of the west,--almost sixty-nine years,--and the sight of them, he nearly ninety-one years old and she more than eighty-eight, as they sat enjoying each other’s company in the last quiet days of their lives, in their home in north Clarinda, was born interesting and pathetic to their many friends and callers. But a short time ago, when Dr Rickey died, Grandpa Hawley was among the first to go to the home of the aged and stricken widow of his old friend, to comfort her in her bitter loss. And today the old man sits by his own fireside along, his faculties still keen to appreciate the great loss he has suffered, and his mind bright to recall and relate her many queenly and lovable traits and good works.
The long married life of Grandpa and Grandma Hawley is very exceptional. To them marriage was one long courtship, and the parting is as keen now, in the gloaming, as it would have been in the dawn of their happiness. But the comfort remains to the stricken old man that the wife of his youth, his manhood, his decline, his tottering old age, the wife that worked by his side through all the vicissitudes of their eventful life, was spared to him until they could enjoy each other’s society along, as in the days when they were first wedded. And though she was unconscious during the last hours of her earthly life, she rallied for a moment before death, recognized the loving hand that had held her own for nigh three-score years and ten, murmured sweetly, “Father,” and passed down to the dark river, to be transported to the land of eternal life and love beyond.
Four children blessed the union of Mr and Mrs Hawley, in the following order:--Francis, born at Dunkirk, N.Y., and later Mrs Curtis (now deceased); James D., of this city; Julia, now Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, of this city; and Ada, now Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joe. Besides the three children living, there are nine grand-children living, one dead and four great grandchildren. A remarkable thing about the line of ancestry is that there are four generations of Hawleys living, vis.,--J.M., J.D., A.J., and Arlo.
The funeral services of Mrs Hawley were conducted from the home, by Dr T.C. Smith, assisted by Rev Chas Jackson, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. A large concourse of friends gathered to pay tribute to the memory of an excellent woman and render sympathy to the sorrowing family and relatives. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Misses Phillips and Loranz and Messrs. Lucas and Keener. Miss Mayme Larrimer also sang a solo. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful, fitting for the last sad rites of a good woman gone to her reward.
CLARINDA HERALD, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 19, 1901
Mrs Charlotte L. Hawley, wife of James M. Hawley, died at 6:30 am, Sunday, March 17, 1901, after an earthly life of 88 years and 1 month. When her spirit took its flight it was in the peace of one who fell asleep in death as easily and quietly as another would sink into life's ordinary slumber to soon awake again. Her mortal frame was worn out. It had run its allotted course. It had performed the mission entrusted to it, and so favored was she, so careful of health and so vigorous of constitution that her years were extended almost two decades beyond the three score and ten. Sixty-eight years ago last September she became a wife, and he who became her husband on Sept 26, 1832, survives today, bereft of the life companion of almost as many years as only those who are especially favored have granted them for all their days here. The late Mrs Hawley was born at Claremont, N.H., Feb 17, 1913. She was married Sept 26, 1832, at Chester, Windsor county, Vt, by Rev Uzziah C. Burnap. Her husband was born May 4, 1810, at Danbury, Ct, so is now almost 91 years of age. P.T. Barnum, the world-famous showman, was his cousin. In the early 30s Mr and Mrs Hawley lived in Detroit, Mich, where Mr Hawley was the proprietor of the American--the best hotel then in that city. In 1837 they removed to Avon, Mich, where Mr Hawley engaged in business. They remained at Avon for twelve years, then, in 1849 went to St Joseph, Mo. Mr Hawley engaged in business both in St Joseph, Mo., and Fillmore, Mo. In Janaury, 1853, they came to Page county, Ia., to McAlpin's Mill, now Hawleyville, name for Mr Hawley, where he had the only store then to be found in a considerable portion of southwestern Iowa. Mr Hawley was the first postmaster commissioned in Page county. In 1864 Mr and Mrs Hawley removed to Clarinda, and the same year went to St Joseph, Mo., again, where Mr Hawley engaged in wholesale business. In 1875 they returned to Clarinda. Thus Mrs Hawley shared the life of a pioneer in different states, and later enjoyed residence in communities long settled, with their better advantages. Of four children born to Mr and Mrs Hawley, one, Mrs Frances Curtis, died in the '70s; three survive. They are one son, James D. Hawley, of Clarinda, and two daughters, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain of Clarinda, and Mrs E.C. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo. Mrs Hawley also leaves several grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is R.H. Chamberlain, collector of internal revenue at Honolulu, who married Miss Maggie Hepburn, daughter of Congressman W.P. Hepburn. Mrs Hawley was a lady of thorough refinement and much ability, an earnest, zealous Christian, a happy wife, affectionate mother and a good neighbor--respected and esteemed by all who knew her. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon at the family home, diagonally across from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, and which membership she greatly prized. Her pastor, Dr T.C. Smith, conducted the services, assisted by Rev Charles L. Jackson of Massachusetts, the evangelist, who offered prayer. A quartet, Misses Carrie Loranz and Bessie Phillips, and Messrs J.D. Keener and Otis Lucas, sang "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Lead, Kindly Lead." Miss Mary Larimer of Creston, sang a solo, "We Shall Know," to organ accompaniment by Mrs Henry Loranz. The bearers were Henry Loranz, J.H. Dunlap, I.N.J. Hartford, F.W. Parish, G. Wm. Richardson and William Orr. The burial was in the city cemetery. One daughter, Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joseph, Mo., was unable on account of illness, to attend the funeral of her mother. Relatives from a distance, who attended, were Mrs N.C. Brokaw, and E.H. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo., and Mrs C.W. Behm of Fairfield, this sate. The floral offerings were numerous and choice. Among them was a tribute from the Eastern Star chapter of this city, of which order her daughter, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, is a member. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 22, 1901
Be it remembered, that at Chester, in the county aforesaid, on this the twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, 1832, Mr James M. Hawley of Ellington, Chatauqua county, State of New York, and Miss Charlotte L. Petty, of Chester county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, were duly joined in marriage by me, Uzziah C. Burcap, minister of the Gospel.
Mrs J.M. Hawley died at her home in north Clarinda at 6:30 o’clock, last Sunday morning, after a three days’ illness from lung trouble. Mrs Hawley was in good health the first of the week, and was in good spirits until she caught a severe cold on Wednesday. The cold settled on her lungs, and while it would not have been a serious affliction for a younger and sturdier person, it proved too much for her fragile strength, and after the brief illness mentioned, she passed away very peacefully on Sunday morning. She was more than 88 years of age, having been born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on February 17, 1813. Her maiden name was Charlotte L. Petty. She lived there with her parents until she was 18 years of age, when she was married to James M. Hawley, on September 26, 1832, at Chester, Vermont. The young couple went from there to the then far west,--Jamestown, New York, where Mr Hawley followed his trade as combmaker for several years. In 1835 they moved to Detroit and opened what later became the American Hotel. There the appointed governor of Michigan territory, Mr Mason, with most of the members of the legislature, boarded with the family and a merry life was led in the talented company. From Detroit the family moved to Rochester, Mich., where Mr Hawley engaged in the milling business. This he followed for twelve years, and in 1849 made another big move westward, landing in St Joseph, Mo., in the winter of that memorable year of California gold discoveries. With a partner named Sorley, Mr Hawley successfully conducted a store at St Joe, for two years, and later, when his partner was called to Scotland, he took charge of their store at Filmore, Mo., where the family lived for two years. Selling out there Mr Hawley took a part of his stock and struck north into Iowa, landing on the present site of the town of Hawleyville, then known as McAlpin’s Mills. Mr Hawley opened a store in a little one room house, with a slab lying on two barrels to serve as a counter, and there he built up a good patronage before he returned to Filmore for his wife and family. He brought them to Hawleyville in a buggy, and Mrs Hawley was led to exclaim frequently along the way, “James, where in the world are you taking us?” For there was no other settlement within thirty or forty miles in that early year of 1853. The family lived at Hawleyville, Mr and Mrs Hawley being prominent in educational and church movements, and after a few years there they came to Clarinda, where they have ever since made their home.
Mrs Hawley united with the Baptist church when a girl but sixteen years old, and was a faithful christian all of her life, she and her husband joining the Presbyterian church after coming here. Grandma Hawley’s nature was always sweet and contented, and she was admired by all who knew her, for her many admirable womanly qualities, strong even in her old age and reflecting the good that she had one when younger.
It was her fear that she might die before her husband. They had been married longer than any other couple in this part of the west,--almost sixty-nine years,--and the sight of them, he nearly ninety-one years old and she more than eighty-eight, as they sat enjoying each other’s company in the last quiet days of their lives, in their home in north Clarinda, was born interesting and pathetic to their many friends and callers. But a short time ago, when Dr Rickey died, Grandpa Hawley was among the first to go to the home of the aged and stricken widow of his old friend, to comfort her in her bitter loss. And today the old man sits by his own fireside along, his faculties still keen to appreciate the great loss he has suffered, and his mind bright to recall and relate her many queenly and lovable traits and good works.
The long married life of Grandpa and Grandma Hawley is very exceptional. To them marriage was one long courtship, and the parting is as keen now, in the gloaming, as it would have been in the dawn of their happiness. But the comfort remains to the stricken old man that the wife of his youth, his manhood, his decline, his tottering old age, the wife that worked by his side through all the vicissitudes of their eventful life, was spared to him until they could enjoy each other’s society along, as in the days when they were first wedded. And though she was unconscious during the last hours of her earthly life, she rallied for a moment before death, recognized the loving hand that had held her own for nigh three-score years and ten, murmured sweetly, “Father,” and passed down to the dark river, to be transported to the land of eternal life and love beyond.
Four children blessed the union of Mr and Mrs Hawley, in the following order:--Francis, born at Dunkirk, N.Y., and later Mrs Curtis (now deceased); James D., of this city; Julia, now Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, of this city; and Ada, now Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joe. Besides the three children living, there are nine grand-children living, one dead and four great grandchildren. A remarkable thing about the line of ancestry is that there are four generations of Hawleys living, vis.,--J.M., J.D., A.J., and Arlo.
The funeral services of Mrs Hawley were conducted from the home, by Dr T.C. Smith, assisted by Rev Chas Jackson, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. A large concourse of friends gathered to pay tribute to the memory of an excellent woman and render sympathy to the sorrowing family and relatives. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Misses Phillips and Loranz and Messrs. Lucas and Keener. Miss Mayme Larrimer also sang a solo. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful, fitting for the last sad rites of a good woman gone to her reward.
CLARINDA HERALD, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 19, 1901
Mrs Charlotte L. Hawley, wife of James M. Hawley, died at 6:30 am, Sunday, March 17, 1901, after an earthly life of 88 years and 1 month. When her spirit took its flight it was in the peace of one who fell asleep in death as easily and quietly as another would sink into life's ordinary slumber to soon awake again. Her mortal frame was worn out. It had run its allotted course. It had performed the mission entrusted to it, and so favored was she, so careful of health and so vigorous of constitution that her years were extended almost two decades beyond the three score and ten. Sixty-eight years ago last September she became a wife, and he who became her husband on Sept 26, 1832, survives today, bereft of the life companion of almost as many years as only those who are especially favored have granted them for all their days here. The late Mrs Hawley was born at Claremont, N.H., Feb 17, 1913. She was married Sept 26, 1832, at Chester, Windsor county, Vt, by Rev Uzziah C. Burnap. Her husband was born May 4, 1810, at Danbury, Ct, so is now almost 91 years of age. P.T. Barnum, the world-famous showman, was his cousin. In the early 30s Mr and Mrs Hawley lived in Detroit, Mich, where Mr Hawley was the proprietor of the American--the best hotel then in that city. In 1837 they removed to Avon, Mich, where Mr Hawley engaged in business. They remained at Avon for twelve years, then, in 1849 went to St Joseph, Mo. Mr Hawley engaged in business both in St Joseph, Mo., and Fillmore, Mo. In Janaury, 1853, they came to Page county, Ia., to McAlpin's Mill, now Hawleyville, name for Mr Hawley, where he had the only store then to be found in a considerable portion of southwestern Iowa. Mr Hawley was the first postmaster commissioned in Page county. In 1864 Mr and Mrs Hawley removed to Clarinda, and the same year went to St Joseph, Mo., again, where Mr Hawley engaged in wholesale business. In 1875 they returned to Clarinda. Thus Mrs Hawley shared the life of a pioneer in different states, and later enjoyed residence in communities long settled, with their better advantages. Of four children born to Mr and Mrs Hawley, one, Mrs Frances Curtis, died in the '70s; three survive. They are one son, James D. Hawley, of Clarinda, and two daughters, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain of Clarinda, and Mrs E.C. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo. Mrs Hawley also leaves several grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is R.H. Chamberlain, collector of internal revenue at Honolulu, who married Miss Maggie Hepburn, daughter of Congressman W.P. Hepburn. Mrs Hawley was a lady of thorough refinement and much ability, an earnest, zealous Christian, a happy wife, affectionate mother and a good neighbor--respected and esteemed by all who knew her. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon at the family home, diagonally across from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, and which membership she greatly prized. Her pastor, Dr T.C. Smith, conducted the services, assisted by Rev Charles L. Jackson of Massachusetts, the evangelist, who offered prayer. A quartet, Misses Carrie Loranz and Bessie Phillips, and Messrs J.D. Keener and Otis Lucas, sang "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Lead, Kindly Lead." Miss Mary Larimer of Creston, sang a solo, "We Shall Know," to organ accompaniment by Mrs Henry Loranz. The bearers were Henry Loranz, J.H. Dunlap, I.N.J. Hartford, F.W. Parish, G. Wm. Richardson and William Orr. The burial was in the city cemetery. One daughter, Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joseph, Mo., was unable on account of illness, to attend the funeral of her mother. Relatives from a distance, who attended, were Mrs N.C. Brokaw, and E.H. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo., and Mrs C.W. Behm of Fairfield, this sate. The floral offerings were numerous and choice. Among them was a tribute from the Eastern Star chapter of this city, of which order her daughter, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, is a member. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 22, 1901
Marriage - State of Vermont, Windsor County, SS
Be it remembered, that at Chester, in the county aforesaid, on this the twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, 1832, Mr James M. Hawley of Ellington, Chatauqua county, State of New York, and Miss Charlotte L. Petty, of Chester county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, were duly joined in marriage by me, Uzziah C. Burcap, minister of the Gospel.
Mrs J.M. Hawley died at her home in north Clarinda at 6:30 o’clock, last Sunday morning, after a three days’ illness from lung trouble. Mrs Hawley was in good health the first of the week, and was in good spirits until she caught a severe cold on Wednesday. The cold settled on her lungs, and while it would not have been a serious affliction for a younger and sturdier person, it proved too much for her fragile strength, and after the brief illness mentioned, she passed away very peacefully on Sunday morning. She was more than 88 years of age, having been born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on February 17, 1813. Her maiden name was Charlotte L. Petty. She lived there with her parents until she was 18 years of age, when she was married to James M. Hawley, on September 26, 1832, at Chester, Vermont. The young couple went from there to the then far west,--Jamestown, New York, where Mr Hawley followed his trade as combmaker for several years. In 1835 they moved to Detroit and opened what later became the American Hotel. There the appointed governor of Michigan territory, Mr Mason, with most of the members of the legislature, boarded with the family and a merry life was led in the talented company. From Detroit the family moved to Rochester, Mich., where Mr Hawley engaged in the milling business. This he followed for twelve years, and in 1849 made another big move westward, landing in St Joseph, Mo., in the winter of that memorable year of California gold discoveries. With a partner named Sorley, Mr Hawley successfully conducted a store at St Joe, for two years, and later, when his partner was called to Scotland, he took charge of their store at Filmore, Mo., where the family lived for two years. Selling out there Mr Hawley took a part of his stock and struck north into Iowa, landing on the present site of the town of Hawleyville, then known as McAlpin’s Mills. Mr Hawley opened a store in a little one room house, with a slab lying on two barrels to serve as a counter, and there he built up a good patronage before he returned to Filmore for his wife and family. He brought them to Hawleyville in a buggy, and Mrs Hawley was led to exclaim frequently along the way, “James, where in the world are you taking us?” For there was no other settlement within thirty or forty miles in that early year of 1853. The family lived at Hawleyville, Mr and Mrs Hawley being prominent in educational and church movements, and after a few years there they came to Clarinda, where they have ever since made their home.
Mrs Hawley united with the Baptist church when a girl but sixteen years old, and was a faithful christian all of her life, she and her husband joining the Presbyterian church after coming here. Grandma Hawley’s nature was always sweet and contented, and she was admired by all who knew her, for her many admirable womanly qualities, strong even in her old age and reflecting the good that she had one when younger.
It was her fear that she might die before her husband. They had been married longer than any other couple in this part of the west,--almost sixty-nine years,--and the sight of them, he nearly ninety-one years old and she more than eighty-eight, as they sat enjoying each other’s company in the last quiet days of their lives, in their home in north Clarinda, was born interesting and pathetic to their many friends and callers. But a short time ago, when Dr Rickey died, Grandpa Hawley was among the first to go to the home of the aged and stricken widow of his old friend, to comfort her in her bitter loss. And today the old man sits by his own fireside along, his faculties still keen to appreciate the great loss he has suffered, and his mind bright to recall and relate her many queenly and lovable traits and good works.
The long married life of Grandpa and Grandma Hawley is very exceptional. To them marriage was one long courtship, and the parting is as keen now, in the gloaming, as it would have been in the dawn of their happiness. But the comfort remains to the stricken old man that the wife of his youth, his manhood, his decline, his tottering old age, the wife that worked by his side through all the vicissitudes of their eventful life, was spared to him until they could enjoy each other’s society along, as in the days when they were first wedded. And though she was unconscious during the last hours of her earthly life, she rallied for a moment before death, recognized the loving hand that had held her own for nigh three-score years and ten, murmured sweetly, “Father,” and passed down to the dark river, to be transported to the land of eternal life and love beyond.
Four children blessed the union of Mr and Mrs Hawley, in the following order:--Francis, born at Dunkirk, N.Y., and later Mrs Curtis (now deceased); James D., of this city; Julia, now Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, of this city; and Ada, now Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joe. Besides the three children living, there are nine grand-children living, one dead and four great grandchildren. A remarkable thing about the line of ancestry is that there are four generations of Hawleys living, vis.,--J.M., J.D., A.J., and Arlo.
The funeral services of Mrs Hawley were conducted from the home, by Dr T.C. Smith, assisted by Rev Chas Jackson, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. A large concourse of friends gathered to pay tribute to the memory of an excellent woman and render sympathy to the sorrowing family and relatives. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Misses Phillips and Loranz and Messrs. Lucas and Keener. Miss Mayme Larrimer also sang a solo. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful, fitting for the last sad rites of a good woman gone to her reward.
CLARINDA HERALD, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 19, 1901
Mrs Charlotte L. Hawley, wife of James M. Hawley, died at 6:30 am, Sunday, March 17, 1901, after an earthly life of 88 years and 1 month. When her spirit took its flight it was in the peace of one who fell asleep in death as easily and quietly as another would sink into life's ordinary slumber to soon awake again. Her mortal frame was worn out. It had run its allotted course. It had performed the mission entrusted to it, and so favored was she, so careful of health and so vigorous of constitution that her years were extended almost two decades beyond the three score and ten. Sixty-eight years ago last September she became a wife, and he who became her husband on Sept 26, 1832, survives today, bereft of the life companion of almost as many years as only those who are especially favored have granted them for all their days here. The late Mrs Hawley was born at Claremont, N.H., Feb 17, 1913. She was married Sept 26, 1832, at Chester, Windsor county, Vt, by Rev Uzziah C. Burnap. Her husband was born May 4, 1810, at Danbury, Ct, so is now almost 91 years of age. P.T. Barnum, the world-famous showman, was his cousin. In the early 30s Mr and Mrs Hawley lived in Detroit, Mich, where Mr Hawley was the proprietor of the American--the best hotel then in that city. In 1837 they removed to Avon, Mich, where Mr Hawley engaged in business. They remained at Avon for twelve years, then, in 1849 went to St Joseph, Mo. Mr Hawley engaged in business both in St Joseph, Mo., and Fillmore, Mo. In Janaury, 1853, they came to Page county, Ia., to McAlpin's Mill, now Hawleyville, name for Mr Hawley, where he had the only store then to be found in a considerable portion of southwestern Iowa. Mr Hawley was the first postmaster commissioned in Page county. In 1864 Mr and Mrs Hawley removed to Clarinda, and the same year went to St Joseph, Mo., again, where Mr Hawley engaged in wholesale business. In 1875 they returned to Clarinda. Thus Mrs Hawley shared the life of a pioneer in different states, and later enjoyed residence in communities long settled, with their better advantages. Of four children born to Mr and Mrs Hawley, one, Mrs Frances Curtis, died in the '70s; three survive. They are one son, James D. Hawley, of Clarinda, and two daughters, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain of Clarinda, and Mrs E.C. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo. Mrs Hawley also leaves several grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is R.H. Chamberlain, collector of internal revenue at Honolulu, who married Miss Maggie Hepburn, daughter of Congressman W.P. Hepburn. Mrs Hawley was a lady of thorough refinement and much ability, an earnest, zealous Christian, a happy wife, affectionate mother and a good neighbor--respected and esteemed by all who knew her. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon at the family home, diagonally across from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, and which membership she greatly prized. Her pastor, Dr T.C. Smith, conducted the services, assisted by Rev Charles L. Jackson of Massachusetts, the evangelist, who offered prayer. A quartet, Misses Carrie Loranz and Bessie Phillips, and Messrs J.D. Keener and Otis Lucas, sang "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Lead, Kindly Lead." Miss Mary Larimer of Creston, sang a solo, "We Shall Know," to organ accompaniment by Mrs Henry Loranz. The bearers were Henry Loranz, J.H. Dunlap, I.N.J. Hartford, F.W. Parish, G. Wm. Richardson and William Orr. The burial was in the city cemetery. One daughter, Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joseph, Mo., was unable on account of illness, to attend the funeral of her mother. Relatives from a distance, who attended, were Mrs N.C. Brokaw, and E.H. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo., and Mrs C.W. Behm of Fairfield, this sate. The floral offerings were numerous and choice. Among them was a tribute from the Eastern Star chapter of this city, of which order her daughter, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, is a member. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 22, 1901
Be it remembered, that at Chester, in the county aforesaid, on this the twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of Our Lord, 1832, Mr James M. Hawley of Ellington, Chatauqua county, State of New York, and Miss Charlotte L. Petty, of Chester county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, were duly joined in marriage by me, Uzziah C. Burcap, minister of the Gospel.
Mrs J.M. Hawley died at her home in north Clarinda at 6:30 o’clock, last Sunday morning, after a three days’ illness from lung trouble. Mrs Hawley was in good health the first of the week, and was in good spirits until she caught a severe cold on Wednesday. The cold settled on her lungs, and while it would not have been a serious affliction for a younger and sturdier person, it proved too much for her fragile strength, and after the brief illness mentioned, she passed away very peacefully on Sunday morning. She was more than 88 years of age, having been born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on February 17, 1813. Her maiden name was Charlotte L. Petty. She lived there with her parents until she was 18 years of age, when she was married to James M. Hawley, on September 26, 1832, at Chester, Vermont. The young couple went from there to the then far west,--Jamestown, New York, where Mr Hawley followed his trade as combmaker for several years. In 1835 they moved to Detroit and opened what later became the American Hotel. There the appointed governor of Michigan territory, Mr Mason, with most of the members of the legislature, boarded with the family and a merry life was led in the talented company. From Detroit the family moved to Rochester, Mich., where Mr Hawley engaged in the milling business. This he followed for twelve years, and in 1849 made another big move westward, landing in St Joseph, Mo., in the winter of that memorable year of California gold discoveries. With a partner named Sorley, Mr Hawley successfully conducted a store at St Joe, for two years, and later, when his partner was called to Scotland, he took charge of their store at Filmore, Mo., where the family lived for two years. Selling out there Mr Hawley took a part of his stock and struck north into Iowa, landing on the present site of the town of Hawleyville, then known as McAlpin’s Mills. Mr Hawley opened a store in a little one room house, with a slab lying on two barrels to serve as a counter, and there he built up a good patronage before he returned to Filmore for his wife and family. He brought them to Hawleyville in a buggy, and Mrs Hawley was led to exclaim frequently along the way, “James, where in the world are you taking us?” For there was no other settlement within thirty or forty miles in that early year of 1853. The family lived at Hawleyville, Mr and Mrs Hawley being prominent in educational and church movements, and after a few years there they came to Clarinda, where they have ever since made their home.
Mrs Hawley united with the Baptist church when a girl but sixteen years old, and was a faithful christian all of her life, she and her husband joining the Presbyterian church after coming here. Grandma Hawley’s nature was always sweet and contented, and she was admired by all who knew her, for her many admirable womanly qualities, strong even in her old age and reflecting the good that she had one when younger.
It was her fear that she might die before her husband. They had been married longer than any other couple in this part of the west,--almost sixty-nine years,--and the sight of them, he nearly ninety-one years old and she more than eighty-eight, as they sat enjoying each other’s company in the last quiet days of their lives, in their home in north Clarinda, was born interesting and pathetic to their many friends and callers. But a short time ago, when Dr Rickey died, Grandpa Hawley was among the first to go to the home of the aged and stricken widow of his old friend, to comfort her in her bitter loss. And today the old man sits by his own fireside along, his faculties still keen to appreciate the great loss he has suffered, and his mind bright to recall and relate her many queenly and lovable traits and good works.
The long married life of Grandpa and Grandma Hawley is very exceptional. To them marriage was one long courtship, and the parting is as keen now, in the gloaming, as it would have been in the dawn of their happiness. But the comfort remains to the stricken old man that the wife of his youth, his manhood, his decline, his tottering old age, the wife that worked by his side through all the vicissitudes of their eventful life, was spared to him until they could enjoy each other’s society along, as in the days when they were first wedded. And though she was unconscious during the last hours of her earthly life, she rallied for a moment before death, recognized the loving hand that had held her own for nigh three-score years and ten, murmured sweetly, “Father,” and passed down to the dark river, to be transported to the land of eternal life and love beyond.
Four children blessed the union of Mr and Mrs Hawley, in the following order:--Francis, born at Dunkirk, N.Y., and later Mrs Curtis (now deceased); James D., of this city; Julia, now Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, of this city; and Ada, now Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joe. Besides the three children living, there are nine grand-children living, one dead and four great grandchildren. A remarkable thing about the line of ancestry is that there are four generations of Hawleys living, vis.,--J.M., J.D., A.J., and Arlo.
The funeral services of Mrs Hawley were conducted from the home, by Dr T.C. Smith, assisted by Rev Chas Jackson, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. A large concourse of friends gathered to pay tribute to the memory of an excellent woman and render sympathy to the sorrowing family and relatives. Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Misses Phillips and Loranz and Messrs. Lucas and Keener. Miss Mayme Larrimer also sang a solo. The floral offerings were very profuse and beautiful, fitting for the last sad rites of a good woman gone to her reward.
CLARINDA HERALD, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 19, 1901
Mrs Charlotte L. Hawley, wife of James M. Hawley, died at 6:30 am, Sunday, March 17, 1901, after an earthly life of 88 years and 1 month. When her spirit took its flight it was in the peace of one who fell asleep in death as easily and quietly as another would sink into life's ordinary slumber to soon awake again. Her mortal frame was worn out. It had run its allotted course. It had performed the mission entrusted to it, and so favored was she, so careful of health and so vigorous of constitution that her years were extended almost two decades beyond the three score and ten. Sixty-eight years ago last September she became a wife, and he who became her husband on Sept 26, 1832, survives today, bereft of the life companion of almost as many years as only those who are especially favored have granted them for all their days here. The late Mrs Hawley was born at Claremont, N.H., Feb 17, 1913. She was married Sept 26, 1832, at Chester, Windsor county, Vt, by Rev Uzziah C. Burnap. Her husband was born May 4, 1810, at Danbury, Ct, so is now almost 91 years of age. P.T. Barnum, the world-famous showman, was his cousin. In the early 30s Mr and Mrs Hawley lived in Detroit, Mich, where Mr Hawley was the proprietor of the American--the best hotel then in that city. In 1837 they removed to Avon, Mich, where Mr Hawley engaged in business. They remained at Avon for twelve years, then, in 1849 went to St Joseph, Mo. Mr Hawley engaged in business both in St Joseph, Mo., and Fillmore, Mo. In Janaury, 1853, they came to Page county, Ia., to McAlpin's Mill, now Hawleyville, name for Mr Hawley, where he had the only store then to be found in a considerable portion of southwestern Iowa. Mr Hawley was the first postmaster commissioned in Page county. In 1864 Mr and Mrs Hawley removed to Clarinda, and the same year went to St Joseph, Mo., again, where Mr Hawley engaged in wholesale business. In 1875 they returned to Clarinda. Thus Mrs Hawley shared the life of a pioneer in different states, and later enjoyed residence in communities long settled, with their better advantages. Of four children born to Mr and Mrs Hawley, one, Mrs Frances Curtis, died in the '70s; three survive. They are one son, James D. Hawley, of Clarinda, and two daughters, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain of Clarinda, and Mrs E.C. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo. Mrs Hawley also leaves several grandchildren. One of her grandchildren is R.H. Chamberlain, collector of internal revenue at Honolulu, who married Miss Maggie Hepburn, daughter of Congressman W.P. Hepburn. Mrs Hawley was a lady of thorough refinement and much ability, an earnest, zealous Christian, a happy wife, affectionate mother and a good neighbor--respected and esteemed by all who knew her. Her funeral was held Monday afternoon at the family home, diagonally across from the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, and which membership she greatly prized. Her pastor, Dr T.C. Smith, conducted the services, assisted by Rev Charles L. Jackson of Massachusetts, the evangelist, who offered prayer. A quartet, Misses Carrie Loranz and Bessie Phillips, and Messrs J.D. Keener and Otis Lucas, sang "Nearer, My God to Thee" and "Lead, Kindly Lead." Miss Mary Larimer of Creston, sang a solo, "We Shall Know," to organ accompaniment by Mrs Henry Loranz. The bearers were Henry Loranz, J.H. Dunlap, I.N.J. Hartford, F.W. Parish, G. Wm. Richardson and William Orr. The burial was in the city cemetery. One daughter, Mrs E.C. Zimmerman, of St Joseph, Mo., was unable on account of illness, to attend the funeral of her mother. Relatives from a distance, who attended, were Mrs N.C. Brokaw, and E.H. Zimmerman of St Joseph, Mo., and Mrs C.W. Behm of Fairfield, this sate. The floral offerings were numerous and choice. Among them was a tribute from the Eastern Star chapter of this city, of which order her daughter, Mrs D.C. Chamberlain, is a member. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 22, 1901
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