Mrs. Hamilton (Caroline) Patterson, 4 May 1830 - 4 Apr 1915

PATTERSON, NIGGLI, WETMORE, BOSLEY

Posted By: Lila Garner (email)
Date: 3/10/2010 at 18:42:00

Marengo [Iowa] Republican, 7 April 1915:

OBITUARY

MRS. HAMILTON PATTERSON

Another of Marengo’s early pioneers was called to the higher life in the passing of Mrs. Patterson. Just as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday morning at 5:50 o’clock, her spirit went out to meet with the Master at the “Morning Watch.” The sadness of the parting with the loved one was tempered by the thought of the triumph of that first Easter morning and that she who had gone on the long journey had set forth with the same living faith of those of old and in the belief of triumph of life over death.

The deceased was born in Kestenhols [sic: Kestenholz], Switzerland, on May 4th, 1830, and died April 4th, 1915, aged 84 years and 11 months. She came to this country with her parents in 1852 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, where in April, 1856, she was married to Hamilton Patterson and the same year they came to Iowa and settled near Marengo. Mr. Patterson died several years ago, since which time Mrs. Patterson and her daughter Miss Anna have made their home together, the declining years of the mother tenderly cared for by the devoted daughter. Some two years ago they built a comfortable home in this city where they have since resided. Mrs. Patterson was the mother of six children, five of whom survive. John George, Mrs. M. A. Wetmore of Wichita, Kansas, Mrs. L. C. Bosley of Ladora, Miss Anna and Carl Edward, of this city. Funeral arrangements as planned were at St. Patrick’s church at 9 a.m. this morning, a requiem high mass was celebrated by the pastor, Rev. W. E. Carroll. Interment was in the Calvary cemetery.