MONSON, Christina M. 1813 - 1896

MONSON, ERICKSON, ERIKSDOTTER, CLARK, HICKENBOTTOM, BATES, TAYLOR

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/25/2021 at 20:23:28

"The Fairfield Tribune"
Wednesday, August 12, 1896
Page 6, Column 1

An Old Settler Gone.

Mrs. Christina M. MONSON, nee ERICKSON (sic - ERIKSDOTTER), died at her home in Salina, Jefferson county, Iowa, on the 8th of August, after a lingering illness of three months. Mrs. MONSON had never quite regained her usual health since having la grippe, some four years ago, and on the 9th of May last she had a stroke of paralysis from which she never rallied. She was a native of Sweden, having been born in the parish of Nova-Wi, in the southern part of that kingdom, on March 4, 1813. At the age of twenty she was married to Charles M. MONSON. To this union nine children were born, of which two died in infancy, and Oscar F. was killed by Indians in Wayne county, Nebraska, in 1870. The other six are all living and mourn the loss of a kind and loving mother. They are, John M., Charles A., and Mrs. Clara A. CLARK, of Salina; Mrs. Hannah L. HICKENBOTTOM, of Parsonville, Iowa; Mrs. Carline M. BATES, of Bedford, Iowa, and Mrs. Rose C. TAYLOR, of Creston, Iowa.

Mrs. MONSON emigrated with her husband and children from Sweden to this country in the spring of 1849, and arriving in New York City, August 16th, and in this, Jefferson county, Iowa, in October. While on the way from New York here, Mr. and Mrs. MONSON, with many others, had an attack of the cholera, and the husband died, and was buried at the village of Mansoma, in the state of New York. This left the young widow with her children and very small means in a strange land, but among kindly disposed people whose language was strange to her. Her oldest child was not yet sixteen years old and the youngest was yet unborn. Being a woman of firm and fervent religious views, she trusted in God, and by economy and hard work raised her family, and finally went to her final rest at her own little home with her six children around her bedside. Mrs. MONSON was a faithful wife, a kind and loving mother and a good neighbor. She died in the faith. The funeral was held at the M. E. church in Salina, Sunday afternoon at two o'clock and was conducted by Rev. Minear. The remains were interred in the Richwoods cemetery (sic - Upper Richwood Cemetery).

The family desire to express their sincere thanks to the many friends who aided them and were so kind during the sickness of Mrs. MONSON.

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