Lydia Wheeler Hinman (1819-1901)

HINMAN, WHEELER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/10/2011 at 08:08:29

Maquoketa Excelsior, November 1, 1901
OBITUARY-
HINMAN-Died at her home in Maquoketa, Sunday, October 29, 1901. Another of Maquoketa’s honored residents, Mrs. I. P. Hinman, has ended her pilgrimage on earth and entered into the glory of the eternal day. Her maiden name was Lydia Wheeler, born in Broome County, New York, May 4, 1819. Her father was Judge Wheeler of the same county. On February 19, 1840, she was married to Mr. Ira P. Hinman. They had grown up in the same community, playing together in childhood and associating with one another from their earliest recollection, so that they had been companions for longer than their more than 60 years of married life. They moved in February, 1849, from Broome County to Wyoming County, N. Y. There were born to them five children-George W., Eliza, Helen F., Ida E., of this city and Chas. E., of Bellevue, together of their venerable father, survive and the beloved wife and mother. She was very much loved by her grandchildren and had become tenderly attached to the three great-grandchildren she lived to see.

Mr. and Mrs. Hinman came to Iowa in 1868 and have lived in this state ever since. Mrs. Hinman was converted in early life and united with the Baptist church. About nine years ago she and her husband united with the Congregational church of this city, of which she was a consistent member until the day of her death. For some time the machinery of life had been running down and last Sunday, October 27, she passed from the church militant to become a member of the church triumphant. Honored and beloved by all who knew her, she died in a ripe old age, having passed considerably beyond the octogenarian line. Life’s machinery simply stopped under the weight of years. It was the gathering of a ripe sheaf into the heavenly garner. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Samuel Shepherd officiating.