Adeline Goodenow Nims(died 1893)

NIMS, GOODENOW

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 6/5/2008 at 12:09:28

Jackson Sentinel August 3, 1893.

DIED.

NIMS. – At her home in Maquoketa township, near Bridgeport, on the night of July 26, 1893, Mrs. Amasa Nims, aged 79 years. Miss Adeline Goodenow was born in Windsor county, Vt.; spent her girlhood in Warren county, New York, and was married to Amasa Nims March 23, 1839, very shortly after her arrival with other pioneers, in this then wilderness of timber and prairie. She suffered all those hardships common to the pioneer; was an ever active christian, a great worker for the Methodist church of Maquoketa, which she assisted in establishing. She was a sister of John E. Goodenow, the founder of Maquoketa, and possessed of the same indominatible energy, until overtaken with ill health. She raised a large family of sons and daughters, who with a kind devoted husband survive. This husband is now a man of 83 years and for 54 years has he loved and protected the deceased. The funeral occurred from the M. E. church in this city, Tuesday afternoon Rev. J. G. Van Ness officiating.