HAYDEN, Emily B. 1847 - 1935

HAYDEN, BARRINGER, MAYLOR, MEHLER, BRISTOR, HUNT, MCQUADE, ALLMAN, HINES

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/19/2024 at 15:55:50

"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Thursday, November 7, 1935
Front Page, Column 5

MRS. HAYDEN DIES TODAY AT HOSPITAL HERE

Aged Resident Summoned After Suffering Broken Hip

Mrs. J. W. HAYDEN, 405 W. Broadway, well known Fairfield resident, died to day at 6:00 a.m. at the Jefferson county hospital. She had been taken to the hospital Nov. 1 after she suffered a broken left hip in a fall at her home. She was 94 years of age (sic - 88 years).

She is survived by one niece, Mrs. Charles BARRINGER, of Boise, Idaho, and a great nephew Dr. Frank MAYLOR of New London.

The body was taken to the Murray Funeral home in Fairfield.

Mrs. BARRINGER is expected to arrive here tomorrow.

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"The Fairfield Daily Ledger"
Saturday, November 9, 1935
Front Page, Column 5

HAYDEN RITES HERE MONDAY

Services Will Be At Murray Funeral Home At 2:30 p.m.

Funeral services for Mrs. J. W. HAYDEN will be held Monday, November 11, at 2:30 p.m., at the Murray Funeral Home in Fairfield, in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith.

The body will be taken to the HAYDEN home, 405 W. Broadway, tomorrow where friends may call.

Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Thursday, November 14, 1935
Page THREE, Columns 4 and 5

MRS. J. W. HAYDEN

Funeral services for the late Mrs. J. W. HAYDEN were held on the afternoon of Nov. 11, at the Murray Funeral Home, in charge of Dr. U. S. Smith, of the First Methodist church. Mrs. HAYDEN, long a member of the church, died Nov. 7, 1935. She was the widow of the late Dr. J. W. HAYDEN, prominent Jefferson county physician. The honorary pallbearers were the following doctors: J. S. Gaumer, J. Fred Clark, C. C. Tallman, I. N. Crowe, L. D. James and S. K. Davis. The active pallbearers were G. W. Gaumer, Raymond Charles, R. C. Leggett, Dr. Clark George, Carl Pilger and Dr. Chester Fordyce.

Relatives present for services included: Mrs. Charles BARRINGER of Boise, Ida., H. E. MEHLER, Chicago, Ill., niece and nephew of Mrs. HAYDEN with John BARRINGER and Frenk MEHLER, great nephews. As a part of the funeral services Hon. C. J. Fulton, of Fairfield, delivered the following tribute.

"Her pioneering parents having emigrated from Virginia to Iowa, Emily BRISTOR was born March 16, 1847, at Danville. There and at New London she grew to womanhood. On April 25, 1867, she was united in marriage to Dr. John W. HAYDEN who had served as a surgeon in the Union Army in the Civil War. The young couple located in Libertyville and together in their active years gave that village and the neighborhood the devoted and unselfish service that a country doctor, sustained and encouraged by the watchful care of a helpful wife, may render. It was there, I, then a small boy, came to know them and to esteem them. The associations with my father's family were close and cordial, being bound by common interests, religious, social, political. Those ties were stronger in those days than in these.

"In our quiet community where her lot was cast, Emily BRISTOR HAYDEN developed the traits that endeared her to those with whom she came in intimate contact. Kindness and tenderness in her human relations marked her thoughts and actions. In her unworldliness, her love of nature and of all living things, she resembled that gentle saint of the Fifteenth Century, Saint Francis of Assissi for whom the birds of the air and all dumb animals had a special affection.

"When Death summons from among us one who has reached a ripe old age, as had Mrs. HAYDEN who was 88, it sems (sic) to me but the falling of a withered leaf. That is lack of perception and reflection. It is far more than that. As the end of the record of a well-spent life, her happy years of girlhood with parents and sisters, her beautiful and useful years of wifehood ran before. In the words of Wordsworth: 'The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.'

"It is appropriate that Jefferson County physicians by their presence here are paying respect to the memory of a woman who in the sixties, seventies and eighties, shared the hardships, trials worries and anxieties, and also the blessings of a member of their humane calling. "I owe everything to my wife," were Dr. HAYDEN's last words.

"The later years of Mrs. HAYDEN in the eyes of the world were quite commonplace. One thing perhaps is worthy of mention. She kept constantly before her as her spiritual guide this motto: When one is blessed with wealth, God gains a partner or that one lose his soul. There is reason to hold the joyous belief that the soul of Emily HAYDEN has joined in sweet companionship the gentle spirits that trod and left this earth before her.

"The last of her family, a widow for twenty-five years, it was with no personal regret she passed on. The natural sorrow of her nieces and nephews and of her old friends may be justly tempered with thanksgiving that she was an old-fashioned woman in the best and truest sense, childlike, courageous, compassionate, and an inspiration to right living."

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, November 9, 1935
Page FIVE, Column 1

Locals

... --Harry MEHLER of Chicago, came yesterday to Fairfield, being called here by the death of his aunt, Mrs. J. W. HAYDEN. ...

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FAIRFIELD SHOPPING NEWS (sic) --
"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, December 7, 1935
Page SIX, Column 2

WILL CONTEST IS FILED HERE

Nine People Object To Probating Will Of Mrs. Emily B. HAYDEN

Nine heirs at law of J. F. HAYDEN, deceased, today have on file in the Jefferson county district court a protest to the probating of the will of Mr. HAYDEN's sister-in-law, the late Mrs. Emily B. HAYDEN of Fairfield.

The protest is expected to be read in open court on Monday morning, Dec. 9, at which time Judge George W. Daehiell has scheduled the will to come before him for probate hearing.

The nine persons protesting the probating of the will are: Kathsyn HUNT, Loreda McQUADE, A. J. HAYDEN, J. J. HAYDEN, Elsie ALLMAN, Elizabeth HAYDEN, Gladys HAYDEN, Virgie HAYDEN and Hazel HINES. The claim that undue influence was used by others upon Mrs. HAYDEN to change a will made on October 17, 1932.

The nine state in their motion that they are the sole remaining heirs at law of J. F. HAYDEN, deceased, who was a brother of Dr. J. W. HAYDEN, husband of Mrs. Emily B. HAYDEN.

The first will, not filed in court, allots $10,000 to the lawful hears (sic) of Mrs. HAYDEN's husband. The new will provides that Mrs. Grace MEHLER BARRINGER receive 120 acres of Des Moines township land, together with the Fairfield home of Mrs. HAYDEN and all household goods, clothing and furniture. Other heire (sic) named are: Harry MEHLER, Bertha MEHLER, Eva LONGSTRITH, Anna MEHLER DODGE, Frank R. MEHLER and John M. BARRINGER. A to-tioned in the will (sic). The new will was made last summer.

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Note: Buried in Lot 2nd.119 with husband John who died in 1909.