Caward, Nettie M. (Gillette) 1857 – 1890

CAWARD, GILLETTE, DENOYLLES

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Date: 11/20/2014 at 10:35:22

Iowa Plain Dealer February 13, 1890, P2 C3

IN MEMORIAM.

CAWARD—In Cresco, Iowa, Feb. 7, 1890, of pneumonia, Mrs. Nettie M., wife of Mr. J. B. Caward, aged 33 years, 1 month and 7 days.

It becomes our sad duty this week to record the death of Mrs. J. B. Caward which occurred at 2 p. m. last Friday. Some three weeks ago Mrs. Caward was prostrate by the prevaling{sp} disease, (la grippe) which was followed by pneumonia, which seemed to have had its run and left yet a hope for her recovery. But this was not to be. If the united sympathy of our citizens for the threatened hearthstone, and those about it, as well as their admiration for her who was so heroically struggling to live, could have secured a withdrawal of the stern and seemingly cruel summons, Nettie, as we all loved to call her, would have been spared to the community and her family. Not only was she a favorite in Cresco where her whole life, like an open book, was known to many, who came to pay the last mark of respect at her obsequies, but the domestic tact and motherly regard for the large family she so cheerfully assumed the care of by her marriage four years ago, had justly earned universal expressions of surprise. She met the situation with such rare executive household ability that to-day she is mourned as much by those to whom she was a step-mother, as by her husband, to whom she was a loving wife and who sustains his second similar bereavement within six years.

The services at the family residence Sabbath afternoon were conducted by her pastor, Rev. A. S. McConnell, whose remarks were so complete a biography that we give them to our readers. The floral offerings by kind friends only served to reflect the upright and beautiful life of the deceased, and as old friends and neighbors who knew her in infancy, in girlhood, and womanhood, took a last look at her once familiar features, the scene was sad, indeed.

There were present from a distance the following members of the family: Fred Gillette of Carroll, S. D., brother of Mrs. Caward; Geo. Caward, of Owatonna, Minn, J. J. Caward of St Paul; Mrs. Maggie and Frank Caward of Milwaukee, wife and son of Wm. Caward, who was unable to be present on account of sickness, Mrs. Emma DeNoylles of Nashua, Ia., sister of Mr. Caward, arrived last Saturday morning, but was unable to attend the funeral.—Republican.