Theresa A. (Jarboe) Simmons, Mar 9, 1818 - July 16, 1897

JARBOE, SIMMONS

Posted By: Ava Simmons (email)
Date: 2/27/2005 at 16:00:55

Obituary (name & date of paper unknown):

Died--At the residence of her son, Edwin A. Simmons, in Washington Township, Iowa County, Iowa, on the 16th day of July, 1897, Mrs. Theresa A. Simmons, aged 79 years, 4 months, and 7 days. Funeral Services were held at St. Patrick's Church in Marengo on Sunday July 18th, at 10 o'clock a.m. A Requiem Mass was said by Father Dunnion, the resident pastor, after which the remains were conveyed to Calvary Cemetery,where the burial services were performed and the body consigned to the grave.

The pall bearers, namely, C.J. Simmons, Charles Simmons, R.A. Simmons, Wm. Simmons, Frank Simmons and Kenely Simmons, were all grandsons of the deceased.

Theresa A. Jarboe was born in Frederick County, Maryland, March 9, 1818. In 1836 she was married to Baker H. Simmons, of the same county and state, where they resided until the year 1881, when her husband departed this life, leaving surviving him the wife and nine children, seven sons and two daughters, most of whom had removed from the old homestead and located in Iowa prior to the death of their father.

In 1887 the remainder of the family, composed of Mrs. Simmons, James W. Jarboe--her brother, two sons, one daughter and three grandchildren had removed to Iowa and located on a farm near Marengo, where the deceased resided to the date of her death.

The deceased leaves surviving her one brother, James W. Jarboe, a Veteran of the Mexican War, seven sons and one daughter, all of whom, except C.E. Simmons, her youngest son, who resides in Denver Col., were present during her illness and death. The departed was forty-one times a grandmother and ten times a great-grandmother.

About two weeks prior to the death of the deceased, while in the enjoyment of her usual good health, she was suddenly stricken with paralysis of the entire left side of her body. She remained in a helpless condition from the moment she was stricken, yet she retained the power of speech and was conscious to the hour of her death."