Mead, Amanda (Robbins) 1802 – 1885

MEAD, ROBBINS, WILCOX

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Date: 7/20/2014 at 15:03:03

Iowa Plain Dealer October 1, 1885, P3 C5

DIED,

MEAD,--At her home in Busti, Chantanqua {sp} county, New York Sept. 24, 1885. Amanda Mead, widow of the late Nehemiah Mead, aged 83 years 6 months and 7 days.

The deceased was born in Tolland, Connecticut, March 17th 1802. She was a daughter of Wm. Robbins, and one of a large family of children. When a child she removed with her parents to the town of Mayfield, Montgomery county, New York, where on the 25 of September 1822, she was married to Nehemiah Mead. In 1833 she removed with her husband and their children to the town of Busti, Chautauqua county, New York, locating upon the farm where she resided at the time of her death, and surviving her husband who died March 2, 1851, more than thirty-four years. Her home during this time has been with her son, Ira G. Mead. She has been a person of wonderful constitutional strength and vigor, at the age of eighty, having more of the elasticity of youth than a majority of the matrons of the country possess at fifty. Three years ago last August she was prostrated by a shock of paralysis, which the physicians and all her friends from its severity thought must speedily prove fatal. But her constitutional vitality was so great that she rallied after a few weeks, enjoying a very good degree of health for a time, but for the past few months she had been suffering from a gradual decline, until on the 24th inst. Death put an end to her earthly existence. In 1833, when she became a resident of Chautauqua county, that portion of it was almost an unbroken wilderness. Here upon a farm situated miles away from any district school during the school years of the writer, by frugality, industry and faithful application, were reared and educated a family of seven children, all of whom survive. We give their names in the order of their age: William R., Ira G., Thompson G., Jane Ann, wife of A. P. Wilcox, of Busti, N. Y.; Francis J., Sarah M., wife of A. F. Wilcox, of Sugar Grove, Pa., and Mary A. They all reside in the immediate vicinity where our mother lived except W. R. & F. J., residing in this place. In life she was all that a mother should be, in death she will not be forgotten.