Harriet Tridel Ballengee (1842-1898)

TRIDEL, BALLENGEE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/17/2010 at 19:20:32

Maquoketa Record, September 28, 1898

Mrs. Ballengee Passes Away

Mrs. Harriet, wife of E. M. Ballengee of Maquoketa, departed this life, Friday September 23, 1898, at Mercy hospital, Davenport, whither she had been taken to undergo a surgical operation. One operation had been performed and she was waiting to gain strength for a second, which was thought necessary, when an All-Wise Providence relieved her of further suffering. Her sickness had been a long and much of the time painful one, and refused to yield to tender nursing and medical skill.

Miss Harriet Tridel was born at Massillon, Ohio, December 24, 1842. On December 23, 1862, she was married in Chicago to E. M. Ballengee and in 1868 removed to Maquoketa, where she has since resided. Mrs. Ballengee was of kind and obliging disposition, respected by all, and a consistent church member, having united with the Congregational church of Maquoketa in 1894. A husband, two children, a sister and an aged father are left to mourn their loss.

The remains were brought to her late home Friday evening. Funeral services were held Sunday at 3 o’clock p.m. from the Congregational church, Rev. Samuel Shepherd officiating with interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery.