GRACE GERTRUDE (BALDWIN) SCOTT

BALDWIN, SCOTT, WOOD, NOLAN

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 7/14/2002 at 20:01:11

Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, November 23, l922

GRACE GERTRUDE BALDWIN was born Sept. l6, l867, at Leon, Iowa, the oldest daughter of JOHN D. and SARAH BALDWIN. She passed through the Leon Public Schools being a healthy and normal girl, at the age of l6 with four other girls, she joined the Christian Church in Leon, where she belonged at the time of her death.

Friendship ripened into love and she was married to H.G. SCOTT, of Lamoni, on April 24, l895. They left shortly afterward for Mountain Grove, Missouri, where they were on a farm for about a year. They then returned to Iowa and have since lived in Ringgold and Decatur Counties. They have lived on the present homestead for the past twelve years so that this has been their home where they raised their family.

MRS. SCOTT was one of the cheerful individuals who always have a hearty laugh and a cheerful smile. The neighbors always felt that she was one who could cheer them and one who could sympathize. She devoted considerable time to her home and to the raising of her family and this home has been known throughout the community as a true home. But she shared that home with her many friends and many were the folks who enjoyed a good meal and a pleasant visit there. She was a Christian above all and the qualities which go to make up the finest character were all found in her life. She was interested in the work of the Methodist Church in Lamoni and the men who have served as pastors always found her willing to do her part and ever showed an interest in its success. Her life and character can be summed up as a Christian wife, mother and friend. There is no greater tribute that can be paid her.

She took sick on Saturday evening, Nov. ll and no one thought it was specially serious but she passed away quickly on Monday evening. It was a distinct shock to everyone and hardly believable that MRS. SCOTT was gone. Her passing gives us another loved one and friend on the other shore who waits for us when our time shall come, to say that we feel a distinct loss is but to put it mildly. There is no one on earth who can fill her place and we can never forget this great loss.

She leaves her husband, H.G. SCOTT, her daughter, AILEEN M. WOOD, of Rosetown, Saskatchewan; RALPH BALDWIN, CLYDE DARRELL, who is attending college at Iowa City and FRANCIS MARION. Also her sister, MRS. S.P. NOLAN, formerly LOU BALDWIN, now of Chicago, beside a host of friends in and about Lamoni.

Funeral services were held at the home east of Lamoni at l p.m. (?) Elroy, of Lamoni sang a solo, "There Is No Night There." There were a number of very beautiful floral offerings and the house could not contain the people who were in attendance. Interment was at Leon Cemetery.

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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
List Administrator; Decatur County, Iowa GenWeb
"With permission from the Leon Journal Reporter"
July ll, 2002
Note: *This has been revised by Jack Eugene Scott;

Grace was his paternal grandmother.

(Thanks Jack.)