Nellie M Stevens 1854-1943

STEVENS, HUNTER, PARSONS

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 5/8/2011 at 08:04:05

October 27, 1943 - Carroll Times - Funeral services are to be conducted at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Huffman Funeral Home for Mrs. H.C. Stevens, who died early yesterday afternoon at her home, 721 North Carroll Street, after a six weeks illness. The Rev. Morton Hickman, minister of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Carroll Cemetery. The body is resting at the funeral home until the time of the rites and may be viewed there by friends.

Mrs. Stevens was well known in Carroll, which had been her home for more than half a century. She was born Nellie M. Parsons, July 2, 1854, at Coldwater, Mich., a daughter of John and Jane Parsons. About the year 1880 she came to Iowa, and five or six years later to Carroll. For many years she was a teacher of piano.

Mrs. Stevens was married twice. At the age of twenty-three she became the bride of Will Hunter at Coldwater in the year 1877. After his death, she made her home at Carroll for many years with her brother, the late E.M. Parsons, who served as mayor of Carroll for a long time. In 1911 she married Henry C. Stevens, who passed away in 1922. Mrs. Stevens had lived in her present home on North Carroll Street for thirty-two years.

Surviving are three nephews: Charles H. Parsons and William E. Parsons of Carroll and Ezra M. Parsons of Wall Lake. Mrs. Stevens was a member of the Presbyterian Church.