Anna West, 1848-1924

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Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/20/2009 at 18:12:49

MRS. ANNA WEST PASSES AWAY
WAS ONE OF EMMET COUNTY'S FIRST WOMEN;
RESIDING HERE 56 YEARS

Mrs. Anna West, aged pioneer lady, passed away early this morning [23 July 1924] at the home of her daughter Mrs. Emil Leo after an extended illness and weeks of intense suffering from cancer of the liver.

Mrs. West was seventy-six years of age at the time of her death and had made her home in this county since 1866 having come here at that time with her husband and homesteaded on Section 8, Center township. She was married to George West at the age of seventeen and they came to this wilderness two years after their marriage. Her husband passed away in 1909 and since the Mrs. West has made her home in Estherville.

In years gone by everyone in this section knew Mr. and Mrs. George West and of their hospitality to the early settlers. They prospered on the farm and by hard work they acquired some of Emmet county's finest land.

Mrs. West was born in 1848 in Toronto, Can. She and her husband lived in Ohio before moving to Emmet county.

She was the mother of fourteen children, eleven of whom survive her.

She is survived by a brother living at Bellingham, Wash., a sister at Choutillia, Calif., and her children, George and William of Estherville, Mrs. Albert Irwin of Huntington, Frances of California, Joe of Fort Dodge, Mrs. Emil Leo of this city, Chas. of Bonair, Mrs. Archie Bixby of Estherville, Tommie of Fort Huron, Mich., and Hazel of Omaha.

The funeral services will be held Friday afternoon from the Baptist church, the Rev. Huxford officiating. The remains will be laid to rest beside her husband in the East Side cemetery.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Sources: The Vindicator and Republican and the Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, July 23, 1924.