Wing, Amelia (Murdock) 1852-1949

MURDOCK, WING

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 5/9/2017 at 12:47:55

Mrs. Amelia Murdock Wing, daughter of the late Judge Samuel Murdock and resident of Elkader for 25 years, died at the age of 97 in a Los Angeles sanatorium June 27, 1949.

She was born in Clayton county on May 13, 1852. She spent her late teens teaching in the Clayton county district schools, then taught German in Lansing and grade school in Humboldt, Iowa.

Mrs. Wing stayed remarkably keen and alert up to her last living moments, giving telephone and street numbers and complete instructions for her funeral, to be followed by cremation.

She had been revamping the familiar Mother Goose stores so they would not end so disastrously for the heroes and heroines as did Jack and Jill and Peter Pumpkin. She believed such stores frightened children. She was also dictating a love story of early days in Clayton county when she died.

Amelia Murdock left Elkader near the turn of the century and lived in South Dakota some years. Then she moved with her mother to Humboldt, where he mother died in 1919 at the age of 99.

In 1929 Mrs. Wing moved to Santa Monica where she spent her last 20 years contributing poetry to the papers and living with her sister, Dr. Marion Murdock. During her last months she lived in a rest home, slept well, ate heartily, bossed the nurses and rewrote Mother Goose. She could remember Abraham Lincoln. she was an early fighter in the battle for woman sufferage, prohibition and kindergartens in schools. With her died the last of the Murdocks.

[the obit concluded with a biography of her father, Samuel Murdock, not transcribed here]

~Clayton County Register, Thursday afternoon, July 7, 1949

Note: Amelia was the 2nd w/o Rev. Matthew Wing, who she married in 1898. He died in North Dakota in 1910.