Stearns, Mary "Louisa" (Simmons)

STEARNS, SIMMONS

Posted By: Carla Hillgren (email)
Date: 3/17/2019 at 19:50:58

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
February 27, 1908
MARY LOUISE SIMMONS was born in New York City, on May 11, 1837. She moved with her parents to Seneca County, Ohio, in the year 1856, and from there came to Decatur County, Iowa, in the year 1858, where she resided until the year 1906, removing to a farm near Allerton, in Wayne County, Iowa, where she died February 11, 1908.*
She was married to DANIEL STEARNS, November 28, 1861, in Garden Grove, Iowa, and to this union were born three children, two of whom died when young, one son, HARRY, surviving. At an early age she united with the Episcopal Church of which she has ever been a devoted member. She is numbered among the pioneers of Decatur County, where she lived and made her home for many years and was widely known among a large circle of friends. Her life was filled with many good and charitable deeds, and she was ever identified with any work which helped to uplift the distressed or sorrowing. She is mourned most by those who knew her
best.
The funeral services were conducted at the Episcopal Church in Garden Grove last Friday afternoon by Rev. Hakes, Rector of the Chariton Episcopal Church. Interment was made in the Garden Grove Cemetery by the side of her husband who died November 6, 1892.* Those accompanying the body from the country home near Allerton, were the son, HARRY, and some neighbors, MR. MORGAN, MRS. RILEA and MRS. CLOE.
The family and near relatives wish to thank the many friends, both at Allerton and Garden Grove, for the kindness and sympathy they have shown during their sad bereavement.
* Louisa's death date is February 14, 1907, and Daniel's is November 8, 1882 on their gravestone.
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