Bennett, Nancy Ann (1839-1920)

BENNETT, SMITH, JOBES, HUNT

Posted By: Audubon County Coordinator (email)
Date: 5/8/2020 at 15:32:08

Audubon County Journal, December 30, 1920, pg. 1, col. 1:

Dies After Many Months of Suffering

The death of Mrs. Nancy Bennett last week takes from us another good and respected pioneer citizen. While her death is regretted by her friends, we all feel that it was for the best. Her condition late months has been a sad one, as she has been almost helpless and was ailing with tuberculosis.

She was ready to go and the fact that death came easy is comforting to her friends.

Nancy Ann Smith was born in Yates County, New York, August 3?, 1839, and died at her home in Exira, December 23, 1920. She was united in marriage to W. Bennett, at Potter, Yates County, New York, on the tenth day of February, 1872. In the fall of 1873, they moved to Audubon County, Iowa, and located on a farm seven miles east of Exira where they resided until 1892. They then removed to the city of Exira where she resided until her death.

She was raided a member of the Baptist church and remained in that church until they moved to

Exira when she united with the Congregational church, and had been a faithful worker until her

death.

Mrs. Bennett was the mother of three children, Lottie, Edwin, who died in infancy, and Jennie Hunt, who died several years ago in California, She leaves to mourn three step-children, Emery Bennett of California, Mrs. Lany Jobes of Exira, John Bennett of Guthrie Center; and two grand-children, Ross Hunt of Guthrie Center and Beatrice Hunt of Los Angeles, California.

Funeral services were held from the Community church, Sunday afternoon, Rev. Lawton in charge, and the remains were laid away in the Exira cemetery.

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Contributed by Gerry Henningsen. Image and text provided by State Historical Society of Iowa.