Morse, Dewanner (Clower) 1819 - 1904

MORSE, CLOWER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:28

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 26, 1904, FP, C3

Mrs. Geo. Morse died Tuesday evening after a few weeks’ illness from dropsy and heart failure. The funeral will take place this morning at 10 o’clock at the family residence.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Mar. 1, 1904, FP, C6

Dewanner Clower was born in Lowden county, Va. November 16, 1819. Her father moved to Ohio in 1831, and the next year to St. Joseph, Michigan. About 1840 she went with a sister to live in Cossopolis, Mich. In 1846 she married George Morse, and in 1852 they moved to Franklin (now Highland), Wisconsin, where they lived for one year, when they moved on to a farm in Wayne twp., Lafayette county, Wis. In 1856 they moved to New Oregon twp., Howard county, Iowa, where they lived until 1873, since which time they have made their home in Cresco. She died February 23, 1904.
Mrs. Morse was the mother of seven children, two of whom, Franklin and Elizabeth, both of Cresco, with her husband are left to mourn her death.
Mr. and Mrs. Morse were among the earlest{sic} settlers in Howard county and one of the oldest couples in Cresco, having lived together 58 years.
The burial service was held at the home last Fridy{sic} morning, conducted by Rev. John Eakin, assisted by Rev. John Gammons. Interment was in New Oregon cemetery.
Mrs. Morse was not as widely known as some other women of the county, but where known was universally respected and esteemed for the qualities of head and heart that ever prompted her intercourse and friendship in life. An acquaintance of forty-six years with deceased warrants us in saying that she was a good, true mother, a dutiful wife, a good neighbor, and a true friend. With the aged husband who highly esteemed the companion of his many years of joy and of sorrow and hope, we sincerely sympathise, and with the two remaining children who so fondly cherished the mother now dead and forever gone from them, we deeply sympathise.
One by one the early pioneers of the county are going to their eternal rest. They were a sturdy, honest, industrious race of men and women who right faithfully served the Lord in the performance of duty.

Added by Joy Moore June 22, 2019

Source: Decorah Republican Mar. 10, 1904 Page 4

Mrs. George Morse died in Cresco on the 23d. She was born in Virginia in 1819, and came to Iowa and settled in New Oregon township, Howard county in 1856. Her husband, aged 88, and two children, survive her.

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