Delila Jane Treat

TREAT, LATHROP, ESGATE

Posted By: CJeanealogy (email)
Date: 9/11/2019 at 21:28:02

Delia Jane Lathrop was born in Cross Plains, Ripley county, Indiana, July 26, 1832, and died July 29, 1918, at Marion, Iowa, having passed her eighty-sixth birthday a few days previously. She was the last member of the family of August Lathrop, three brothers and one sister having preceded her in death.
She was married to James Bassett in 1848, and with him and a young son, and in company with her two brothers, Erastus and Virgil Lathrop, and their families, came to Iowa in the fall of 1854, driving across the country, the journey across Indiana and Illinois occuyping {sic} three weeks. The three families settled on farms southeast of Marion. Four years later James Bassett died while on a visit to their relatives in Indiana. The son, William E. Bassett, died in 1868, after a long illness.
In 1860 she was married to Garry Treat, with whom she lived more than fifty years until his death in 1913. Their only daughter, Mrs. E.J. Esgate, and three grandchildren, Arthur E. Esgate, of Phoenix, Arizona, Edith M. and Helen H. Esgate, of Washington, D.C., survive her.
Mr. and Mrs. Treat moved to Marion in 1888 and have been continuous residents here, except for two years spent in Southern California. She joined the Baptist church in Indiana and for sixty-four years has been a faithful and zealous member of the Marion Baptist church, and for a number of years has been its oldest member.
Mrs. Treat has had a long and busy life, filled with labors of love for her family and friends, her church and community. She has at different times had the care of three orphan children, giving them the attention and training of a true mother. She has, up to the end of her life, kept up with the events of the world, and held her interest in all the forces of righteousness.
"Blessed are the dead which died in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
~Marion Weekly Sentinel Thursday Aug. 1, 1918~