Obit.- Atchison Daily Globe, Dec. 20, 1907
With the century line but four short years away, Mrs. Hannah Armfield died this morning at the age of 96 years. She passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Wilbur S. Adams, with whom she lived on the old Speck homestead near Hawthorne, at 7:30 o'clock this morning. Pneumonia, which she had but two days, was the cause of her death. She had had a bad cold for a week or more, but not until yesterday morning was it realized that it had developed into pneumonia. Up until recently her health had been good for a woman of her remarkable age.
Hannah Rich Iddings was born August 17, 1811, on a farm on Deep River, Guilford county, North Carolina. Nineteen years later she was married to Julian Armfield, a neighbor. She had earned $7.50 one summer teaching school, and this money went to buy her trosseau, and when the bride went to her own home she took with her a pig and a cow which were her wedding gifts. The parents of Mrs. Armfield migrated to Indiana a few years later and in 1819 Julian Armfield and family followed them. Mrs. Armfield and her daughter of 18 rode in front in a big spring carriage hitched to a big black horse, and she drove 730 miles, over thirteen mountains, the two boys of thirteen and eleven riding with their father in a wagon that followed them. Mr. Armfield opened a woolen factory upon reaching Peru, Ind., and it was here that he died in January, 1875.
In 1875 his widow came west to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Speck , near Hawthorne, but stayed only a year and a half, going back to Danville, Ind., where in fourteen years, by renting rooms, taking boarders and building and renting houses, she cleared a small fortune. Mrs. Armfield came west to make her home with her granddaughter. She has a son, Isaac Armfield, who lives in Denver, Ind., twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, two of whom are married. She is an aunt of Mr. J. M. Chisham and of Mrs. John Klopfenstein, of Atchison, and a grandmother of I. A. Speck, Mrs. W. S. Adams, Mrs. D. P. Barber and Mrs. Thomas Kriger, of Hawthorne, and of J. J. Speck and J. F. Speck, of Nortonville.
The funeral will occur from the house at two o'clock, p.m. tomorrow; burial in Round Mound cemetery.
With the century line but four short years away, Mrs. Hannah Armfield died this morning at the age of 96 years. She passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Wilbur S. Adams, with whom she lived on the old Speck homestead near Hawthorne, at 7:30 o'clock this morning. Pneumonia, which she had but two days, was the cause of her death. She had had a bad cold for a week or more, but not until yesterday morning was it realized that it had developed into pneumonia. Up until recently her health had been good for a woman of her remarkable age.
Hannah Rich Iddings was born August 17, 1811, on a farm on Deep River, Guilford county, North Carolina. Nineteen years later she was married to Julian Armfield, a neighbor. She had earned $7.50 one summer teaching school, and this money went to buy her trosseau, and when the bride went to her own home she took with her a pig and a cow which were her wedding gifts. The parents of Mrs. Armfield migrated to Indiana a few years later and in 1819 Julian Armfield and family followed them. Mrs. Armfield and her daughter of 18 rode in front in a big spring carriage hitched to a big black horse, and she drove 730 miles, over thirteen mountains, the two boys of thirteen and eleven riding with their father in a wagon that followed them. Mr. Armfield opened a woolen factory upon reaching Peru, Ind., and it was here that he died in January, 1875.
In 1875 his widow came west to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Speck , near Hawthorne, but stayed only a year and a half, going back to Danville, Ind., where in fourteen years, by renting rooms, taking boarders and building and renting houses, she cleared a small fortune. Mrs. Armfield came west to make her home with her granddaughter. She has a son, Isaac Armfield, who lives in Denver, Ind., twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, two of whom are married. She is an aunt of Mr. J. M. Chisham and of Mrs. John Klopfenstein, of Atchison, and a grandmother of I. A. Speck, Mrs. W. S. Adams, Mrs. D. P. Barber and Mrs. Thomas Kriger, of Hawthorne, and of J. J. Speck and J. F. Speck, of Nortonville.
The funeral will occur from the house at two o'clock, p.m. tomorrow; burial in Round Mound cemetery.
Obit.- Atchison Daily Globe, Dec. 20, 1907
With the century line but four short years away, Mrs. Hannah Armfield died this morning at the age of 96 years. She passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Wilbur S. Adams, with whom she lived on the old Speck homestead near Hawthorne, at 7:30 o'clock this morning. Pneumonia, which she had but two days, was the cause of her death. She had had a bad cold for a week or more, but not until yesterday morning was it realized that it had developed into pneumonia. Up until recently her health had been good for a woman of her remarkable age.
Hannah Rich Iddings was born August 17, 1811, on a farm on Deep River, Guilford county, North Carolina. Nineteen years later she was married to Julian Armfield, a neighbor. She had earned $7.50 one summer teaching school, and this money went to buy her trosseau, and when the bride went to her own home she took with her a pig and a cow which were her wedding gifts. The parents of Mrs. Armfield migrated to Indiana a few years later and in 1819 Julian Armfield and family followed them. Mrs. Armfield and her daughter of 18 rode in front in a big spring carriage hitched to a big black horse, and she drove 730 miles, over thirteen mountains, the two boys of thirteen and eleven riding with their father in a wagon that followed them. Mr. Armfield opened a woolen factory upon reaching Peru, Ind., and it was here that he died in January, 1875.
In 1875 his widow came west to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Speck , near Hawthorne, but stayed only a year and a half, going back to Danville, Ind., where in fourteen years, by renting rooms, taking boarders and building and renting houses, she cleared a small fortune. Mrs. Armfield came west to make her home with her granddaughter. She has a son, Isaac Armfield, who lives in Denver, Ind., twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, two of whom are married. She is an aunt of Mr. J. M. Chisham and of Mrs. John Klopfenstein, of Atchison, and a grandmother of I. A. Speck, Mrs. W. S. Adams, Mrs. D. P. Barber and Mrs. Thomas Kriger, of Hawthorne, and of J. J. Speck and J. F. Speck, of Nortonville.
The funeral will occur from the house at two o'clock, p.m. tomorrow; burial in Round Mound cemetery.
With the century line but four short years away, Mrs. Hannah Armfield died this morning at the age of 96 years. She passed away at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Wilbur S. Adams, with whom she lived on the old Speck homestead near Hawthorne, at 7:30 o'clock this morning. Pneumonia, which she had but two days, was the cause of her death. She had had a bad cold for a week or more, but not until yesterday morning was it realized that it had developed into pneumonia. Up until recently her health had been good for a woman of her remarkable age.
Hannah Rich Iddings was born August 17, 1811, on a farm on Deep River, Guilford county, North Carolina. Nineteen years later she was married to Julian Armfield, a neighbor. She had earned $7.50 one summer teaching school, and this money went to buy her trosseau, and when the bride went to her own home she took with her a pig and a cow which were her wedding gifts. The parents of Mrs. Armfield migrated to Indiana a few years later and in 1819 Julian Armfield and family followed them. Mrs. Armfield and her daughter of 18 rode in front in a big spring carriage hitched to a big black horse, and she drove 730 miles, over thirteen mountains, the two boys of thirteen and eleven riding with their father in a wagon that followed them. Mr. Armfield opened a woolen factory upon reaching Peru, Ind., and it was here that he died in January, 1875.
In 1875 his widow came west to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. A. S. Speck , near Hawthorne, but stayed only a year and a half, going back to Danville, Ind., where in fourteen years, by renting rooms, taking boarders and building and renting houses, she cleared a small fortune. Mrs. Armfield came west to make her home with her granddaughter. She has a son, Isaac Armfield, who lives in Denver, Ind., twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, two of whom are married. She is an aunt of Mr. J. M. Chisham and of Mrs. John Klopfenstein, of Atchison, and a grandmother of I. A. Speck, Mrs. W. S. Adams, Mrs. D. P. Barber and Mrs. Thomas Kriger, of Hawthorne, and of J. J. Speck and J. F. Speck, of Nortonville.
The funeral will occur from the house at two o'clock, p.m. tomorrow; burial in Round Mound cemetery.
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