Teed, Adella J. Martin (1853-1924)

TEED, MARTIN, HACKLEY, ALLBURTY

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/5/2015 at 12:35:35

The Webster City Daily News, Friday, December 12, 1924

Prominent Home of City Visited by Death

Mrs. G. W. Teed Sinks Into Last Sleep Shortly Before Noon Today - Has Been in Frail Health for Past Year - Had Lived Here Fifty Years

Mrs. G. W. Teed, seventy-one years of age, and one of the best known women of this city, passed peacefully away into everlasting life, shortly before noon today after a critical illness of three or four weeks, following a year of frail health from kidney and heart trouble. With her passing a rarely beautiful companionship with her husband, is broken after more than fifty years of wedded life.

Mr. and Mrs. Teed celebrated their golden wedding anniversary June 16th, 1924, having come to this city on the 19th of December, 1874, where they have ever since resided.

Adella J. Martin was born November 30, 1853, at Mr. Morris, N. Y. She was united in marriage with George W. Teed, June 16th, 1874, at Pattison, N. J. Six months later the couple removed to this city from Dubuque where they had lived for a few months, and Mr. Teed went at once into the drug and jewelry business with B. Detlor, a pioneer business man.

To Mr. and Mrs. Teed was born one son, George M., who with his wife and four children, survive. The grandchildren are: Mrs. John Hackley, of Des Moines, who is arriving here this evening; Miss Frances, who is taking nurse's training in Chicago; Wilmer, a high school student here, and James, the youngest. A sister, Mrs. Mattie Allburty, of Pittsburg, Pa., has been with her sister for several weeks, and is the only surviving sister, one brother, Frank E. Martin, of Pittsburg, being the only surviving brother.

Mrs. Teed became a member of the Congregational church shortly after her removal to this city, teaching a Sunday School class for many years, and always lived a sincere Christian life. She was a charter member of the Eastern Star order, and enjoyed memberships with the Recreation, Home, and Thursday Needlework clubs of the city. Gentle, quiet, home-loving, she lived an unusually happy married life to a perfectly rounded close. The warmest sympathies of the community will be extended to the bereft husband, and the other members of the family whose loving devotion to Mrs. Teed during her later years when her health became so frail, was especially marked.

The funeral services will be held sometime Sunday, the hour to be announced later.