Wing, Amanda Malvina (Stewart) 1841 - 1907

WING, STEWART, PRICE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/18/2019 at 13:17:54

Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 5 Dec. 1907. Local News columns.

About 11 o'clock last Thursday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. R. E. Price, occurred the death of Mrs. A. A. Wing, after an extended illness of several months. During this time she has received every care that a loving sister and medical experience could extend. There appeared to be no relief and after living a life of labor and love for others she has been relieved of her suffering and passed away to her eternal rest.

Amanda Malvina Stewart was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, August 21, 1841, and when about seven years old went with her parents to Jefferson Co., Wis., traveling principally by canal and on the Great Lakes. In 1853 she came with her parents to Iowa, this time traveling with an emigrant wagon drawn by oxen. The family settled on the prairie in Highland township, on what is now known as the Torkelson farm about eight miles west of Elkader. In 1859 they came into Elkader. The first winter in Iowa there being no schools in the vicinity of her home, her mother gathered together ten or a dozen children in the neighborhood and together with her own children taught them in the common school branches, some of them coming not less than two and one-half and three miles to receive the benefit of such instruction. In the meantime a school district had been organized and a log school house built and a teacher employed and for two terms of three months each the deceased received the benefit of that instruction. Three months before she was fourteen years of age she taught a term of school. Never did she attend as a pupil but one term of school after that and that was in Elkader and long before we had the benefit of such schools as exist at the present time. From that time on she taught continuously with the exception of about six years of her married life until 1897. In December, 1873, she was united in marriage to Asa Albert Wing. In 1876 they went from Iowa to Minnesota. In 1881 her husband was stricken with the Great White Plague and after exhausting all known remedies, even trying the boasted climate of Colorado, he succumbed to the ravages of the disease, leaving his wife with three small children to support, as all their means had been exhausted in an effort to save the husband and father. Nothing appealed to the bereft woman as did the school room and again she took up the work and taught continuously until 1897, when she came back to Iowa and settled on a farm in Read township with her two younger sons, where she resided until her death., which occurred at the home of her only sister, Mrs. Realto E. Price, on Thursday, November 28th, 1907. She leaves besides her sister, three sons: Richard E. Wing, of Dickinson, S.D.; and Benjamin B. and Paul Wing, of Read township, and three grandchildren, and other relatives and friends numbered only by her acquaintances. While teaching in Forest City, Iowa, she became a member of the M.E. church of that place, uniting latter by letter with the church at Correctionville, Iowa, while teaching there. The last twelve years her membership has been with the church at Wells, Minn.

The funeral was held on Friday afternoon from the home of R. E. Price, Rev. A. B. Fickel, of Monona, officiating. The pall bearers were: H. D. Brown, F. J. Uriell, A. J. Carpenter, H. W. Wilke, R. F. Schmidt and D. G. Griffith.

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Note: Burial is in East Side cemetery, Elkader