HANEY, Fanny (Tolls) 1812-1873

HANEY, TOLLS

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Date: 8/26/2023 at 16:38:09

DIED. At her home in this city, on the 13th inst., Fanny Tolls Haney, wife of John Haney, Sr.; aged 60 years, 1 month and 28 days.

The funeral took place this afternoon at three o'clock and was largely attended. The deceased was one of the first white women that came to what is now Lansing. She came here when this whole country above Prairie du Chien was a dense wilderness peopled by the tawny and semi-savage Indians, and assisted her husband and sons to covert the wild [illegible] into a comfortable home.

She lived to see the little steamboat landing with its two or three log huts, grow into a prosperous and populous city numbering its inhabitants by thousands.

The deceased was a kind and benevolent woman, and a true Christian in every sense of the word, and she passed away, as do the righteous, to receive in Heaven, the reward for a life well and nobly spent on earth, leaving behind a sorrowing community of relatives and friends.

~North Iowa Journal, Thursday, January 14 1873; pg 3

Note: buried Oak Hill cemetery, where her dates are recorded as 11/15/1812 - 1/13/1873

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DIED - In this city, on the 13th inst., Fanney Tolls Haney, wife of John Haney, Sr., aged 60 years, 1 month and 28 days.

Mrs. Haney came to this place, with her husband, at its earliest settlement, and for years previously resided in Crawford Co. Wis., where her only neighbors were the Indians.

She was of an exceedingly amiable and generous disposition, and her house was for years the home of sojourners who chanced to pass this way, and who now well recollect her hospitality.

~Mirror and Chronicle, Thursday, January 16, 1873

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The following tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs. Haney, is from the pen of Hon. H.H. Houghton, editor of the Galena (Ills.) Press:

"On Monday morning lst [sic], the people of Lansing were called to mourning in the death of Mrs. Fanny T. Haney, the beloved wife of Jno Haney Sr. She died of nervous prostration, after a short illness.

"The deceased was the faithful friend of the writer of this, and most sincerely do we mourn her departure. We first became acquainted with her twenty-seven years ago. Twenty-three years ago, her honored husband and ourself became joint proprietors of what is now the city of Lansing. In 1848, Mr. Haney removed thither from Galena, and there they made their home, which is now made desolate. For a time Mrs. H. was the only woman in that vicinity, and her family the only one.

"The footprints of the departed Indians were visible on the shore of the Mississippi long after her arrival, and she patently endured the many privations of the frontier, till others gathered around her, and she had conquered a competence, with its comforts. Her husband still survives her, though in very feeble health.

"The deceased was a most faithful and affectionate wife, mother, and friend, a Christian who relied on God for her support, more than on human weakness. She believed in right principles more than in its formalities, though the latter had their proper place. She possessed womanly modesty and gentleness, united with great courage and decision of character. In her place on earth, she assisted to organize in society the foundations of a city as best she could. We trust she now inhabits on high the city of her God, whose society is pure and perfect, and whose walls are without a flaw.

~Mirror and Chronicle, Thursday, January 23, 1873; pg 3