Jane Stephens 1815-1905

STEPHENS, DICKINSON, CRESWELL, BLAUL

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Date: 9/2/2024 at 14:28:37

The Wapello Republic, Columbus Junction, IA
Thursday, July 20, 1905
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Mrs. Jane Dickinson Stephens was born in Stuben county, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1815 and was the youngest daughter of David and Ann Gilbert Dickinson. She was married to Levi Stephen Dec. 22, 1841. Six children were born to them, five of whom survive the mother, Carrie, wife of John M. Creswell; Josephine, John F., and Nannie J. Stephens and Jessie S., the wife of Charles Blaul, of Burlington. One daughter, Anna L. died at the age of seventeen and her husband, Levi Stephens, died in 1887.

She was a member of the Harrison United Presbyterian church for many years; her home was always open to the ministers who came to preach. She was quiet and unassuming and one who lived her religion in her daily life. She spent all her married life on the farm which her husband preempted from the government in 1836. She belonged to the generation of pioneers who reclaimed the country from its wild state and developed it. She was a loving and faithful mother, devoted to her home and her children and was beloved by them and her many friends.

Her last sickness began with the morning of July 4th and on last Sabbath evening, July 16th, she passes peacefully away in her 91st year. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. P. Nesbit, pastor of the U. P church in Morning Sun, at the old farm home, where most of her life was spent, about forty teams following the remains to the Harrison cemetery, where the aged body was laid to rest.