Mrs. Mary Ann Fawcett 1832-1916

FAWCETT, NYE, MCCLINTOCK

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Date: 9/30/2019 at 08:51:16

Manchester Democrat, Wednesday, Feb 16, 1916, Manchester, IA, Page: 5

Mrs. Mary Ann Fawcett
Dies at Home of Daughter,
Mrs. J. E. Nye
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Mary Ann Fawcett, mother of Mrs. J. E. Nye, of this city, passed away in this city, on Monday, February 14, 1916 following an illness of pneumonia.
Services were held at the home of Mrs. Nye on Tuesday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. C. K. Hudson and Rev. W. J. Suckow. Following the service the body was taken to the family home at Monticello, Iowa. Services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal Church this afternoon, and interment will be made at the cemetery at that place.

Mrs. Fawcett was born at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio on August 7th, 1832. She came to Iowa as a child and located at Dixon, Scott County. She was educated at Batey Seminary, at Steubenville, Ohio. She was united in marriage with Dr. Fawcett at Mt. Pleasant in March 1851. Since April 1876, she resided at Monticello where Dr. Fawcett passed away on February 25th, 1877. During the past few years, Mrs. Fawcett spent the winter months with her daughters, Mrs. Nye and Mrs. McClintock of Cedar Rapids. Besides the two daughters named Mrs. Fawcett is survived by another daughter, Miss Jessie Fawcett, and instructor in the schools in Mechanicsville, Iowa.

The daughters have the sincere sympathy of many friends in the loss that has come to them because of the death of a kind and devoted mother.