Malinda J. Anderson Parnell

ANDERSON, PARNELL, HICKS, BEADEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 9/2/2010 at 16:12:35

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, May 7, 1908

DIED-

PARNELL, Malinda J. Anderson was born June 29, 1816, in Rockingham County, Virginia, and died at Elwood, Iowa, April 25, 1908, aged 91 years, 9 months and 26 days. She was married to Y. J. Hiner of Pendelton County, Virginia, October 29, 1840. To them were born five children-Mary J. Patterson of Spencer, Iowa, Hannah Hicks of Elwood, Iowa, J. A. Hiner of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Hettie J. Beaden of Chamberlain, South Dakota.
May 9, 1854, they bid farewell to their friends and home at Doe Hill, Highland County, Virginia, travelling with a team and wagon loaded with their wearing apparel and camping outfit to make their home in the then far west Brookfield, Clinton County, Iowa. They journeyed on enjoying the scenes of the country through which they travelled until the evening of June 21 when they arrived at Delta, Illinois, where they stopped for the night. Her husband and father was taken very ill and on June 26th died. The people were very kind to her but she was among strangers with five young children, the youngest being five months old. She wrote to her brother Eugenia Anderson, who lived in Jackson County, Iowa. He saddled his horse and went to meet and accompany her and the little family the remainder of their journey arriving here the seventh day of August. She bought eighty acres of land on the wild prairie, had a house built, moving into it about Christmas. The one great ambition of her life was to keep her children together.
March 18, 1858, she was married to J. D. Parnell. To them was born one child, Maria E., the deceased wife of H. H. Hicks. October 1, 1888, she was again left a widow. In the spring of 1890, she went to make her home with her daughter, Hannah Hicks, where she spent the remainder of her life. At the age of fifteen she gave her life to Christ and united with the Presbyterian church. She spent 77 years in the service of Christ’s Kingdom. She sought the Saviour in youth and God gave her length of days. In her younger days she was an active worker in the church. She was a lover of hospitality. She was wise and kind and raised a family of worthy children who remember their mother with affection.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. J. Kidder at the Union Church and her body was laid to rest in the beautiful Church Yard cemetery

Union Cemetery
 

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