Evans, Celestia Hakes (1844-1924)

EVANS, HAKES, LOWRIE, JACOBSON, PHELPS, EGERTON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 4/17/2017 at 08:57:58

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Wednesday, March 4, 1924

Celestia C. Hakes was born near De Ruyter, New York, Sept. 30, 1844, and died at her home in Stratford Saturday, March 1, 1924 at the age of 70 years and five months. She came to Hook's Point in 1865 and in 1869 was married to Joseph S. Evans and had lived in this vicinity ever since. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Evans, five preceding the mother to the Great Beyond and three daughters, Miss Belle and Mrs. Josie Lowrie [obituary said Lowrey but that is incorrect], at home with the aged husband and father, and Mrs. Albert Jacobson, of East Marion, are left to mourn the loss of a loving mother and wife. Mrs. Evans was a home loving woman, a kind helpful neighbor and a true friend as every one who came to know her can truly testify. She was a true Christian woman and a faithful member of the M.E. church. She had been in very poor health for a number of years, but was only seriously ill about four days, when she passed on to her reward. She also has one brother, Harland Hakes, of Westerly, R.I., and two sisters, Mrs. Olive Phelps, of Courtland, New York, and Mrs. May Egerton, of Springfield, Mass., and one grandson, Phillip Lowrie, and a number of other relatives and a host of friends who sympathize with them in this, their hour of sorrow. But they do not mourn as one without hope, for she is not dead, but only asleep, safe in the arms of Jesus. The family were in quarantine at the time of her death, as the little grandson, Phillip, has been having scarletina, but they fully appreciate what their friends and neighbors would have liked to have done for them, but could not. Rev. Carl Hammer of the M.E. church, held short services at the house Sunday, March 2 at 2 p.m.. In the yard were a good many relatives and friends who came to pay their last respects to the departed one. Interment was made in the Stanhope cemetery [Lawn Hill Cemetery], where their children are buried.