HARRIETT( LEACHMAN) CARTWRIGHT

LEACHMAN, CARTWRIGHT, WAILES, ANDREWS, MCMANUS, FREEMAN

Posted By: Nancee Seifert (email)
Date: 3/3/2010 at 17:13:21

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Iowa
Thursday, May 14, 1914

HARRIETT LEACHMAN, daughter of C.C. LEACHMAN and ELIZABETH LEACHMAN, was
born in Putnam County, Indiana, August 14th, 1851. She came with her
parents to Iowa in 1852, and settled near Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa,
where they resided for three years, when they moved from there to Decatur
county, Iowa, and her father, C.C. LEACHMAN, entered 160 acres of land and
built a house very near to where the one stands in which she died. The land
however, passed into other hands, but later became the property and home of
herself and husband. She grew up to womanhood in and near Davis City, and
has been a continuous resident of the vicinity of Davis City for the past
sixty-one years.

This part of Iowa was a wild country when she came to it, there being lots
of Indians here yet, at that time. For several terms, the only school in
this vicinity was taught in a part of her father's house by SAMUEL BOWMAN
and W.F. CRAIG, both well known residents of the county in years past, but
both of them have been dead for several years. At the time they came here,
there was no Davis City here, and the Davis mill, from which Davis City
afterward received its name, was not built until the next year after their
coming, but there was a small Hungarian settlement three and a half miles
south of them and known as New Buda, where a number of refugees from Hungary
after the unsuccessful rebellion in Hungary, led by Kossuth, had come here
and formed a settlement three and a half miles south of the present town of
Davis City, Iowa, and had named their new settlement Nubuda, after Buda Pest
in Hungary.

When the War of the Rebellion came on her father answered his country's call
and went to war, and the subject of this sketch passed through the exciting
time of the war, and realized with her mother and others what it meant to
have the head of the family away in war, while they were at home undergoing
the privations incident to the place and times.

On December 31st, 1872, she was united to her now bereaved husband, FRANK P.
CARTWRIGHT, in marriage by W.F. Craig, Justice of the Peace, and one of her
former school teachers. To this union were born four children, namely;
ERNEST, who died in early infancy; JENETTE C., wife of Dr. J.W. WAILES, of
Davis City; MAUDE C., wife of A.A. ANDREWS, of St. Joseph, Mo., and ROBERT L
CARTWRIGHT, of Chanute, Kansas, all of whom are left, with the husband and
father to mourn the loss of a faithful wife and mother.

Sister CARTWRIGHT was converted in a United Brethren meeting held in the old
school house in Davis City, but later she joined the M.E. Church, and ever
lived an exemplary Christian life, and while she was of a quiet turn, and
made no loud pretensions, yet she never lost sight of the witness that God
had given her that she was His child. For the past twenty-five or thirty
years she has been in poor health and was a great sufferer, which
necessitated her staying at home much of the time, and deprived her of
church attendance. Although she was sorely afflicted, yet most of the time
she was able to be up a part of the time, and able to go to the table for
her meals, and on the morning of the day of her death, she had gone to the
table and eaten some breakfast, and had gone back to her bed, unassisted,
and was standing by the bed, her husband being in the room with her. He
heard a noise and turned to see her falling; he caught her and laid her upon
the bed, but she was dead before he got her laid down.

She died at the family home about one-half mile south of Davis City, at
10:30 a.m., April 30th, 1914, aged 52 years (sic), 8 months and 16 days.
She leaves, in addition to her own family named above, her aged mother,
ELIZABETH MCMANUS, of Grant City, Mo., her brother, SAMUEL LEACHMAN, of
Lineville, Iowa, and her sister, Mrs. F.M. FREEMAN, of Davis City, Iowa,
beside a large number of other relatives and friends, to mourn her departure
to that bourne from whence to traveler e'er returns.

The funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Davis City on
Sunday afternoon, May 3rd at 2:00 o'clock. The choir sang two hymns of
faith and comfort. Miss Stella McClaran sang that beautiful solo, "Face to
Face," and a very appropriate duet was sung by Mrs. G.P. Campbell and Miss
McClaran. The sermon was preached by Rev. Guy J. Fansher, Minister of the
Leon Methodist Church. Interment was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, just west
of Davis City. A large concourse of relatives and friends were gathered to
pay their last respects to the beloved departed. The sympathy of the entire
community goes out to the sorrowing ones.
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