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Anna (Weeks) Means (1901)

WEEKS, MEANS

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 3/16/2006 at 15:40:54

Winterset Madisonian
Thursday November 14, 1901, Pg 1
Winterset, Iowa

Mrs. L. F. Means Dead

Mrs. Anna Weeks Means, wife of Lewis F. Means of Grand River township, died at her home near Kasson, at 5 o'clock p.m., Friday, November 8, 1901, after a lingering illness of over a year. In October 1900 she underwent a critical surgical operation from which permanent relief was hoped, but it proved to be only temporary. The funeral services were held at the home at 11 A.M. Sunday, November 10, the interment being in the Hamblin cemetery.

Deceased was a sister of G. F. and Chas. Weeks and has lived in this county since childhood. She was a woman of much force of character and well esteemed by all, a faithful wife and devoted mother who brought up to years of maturity an exemplary family.

A long suffering has ended in the fruition of peace.
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Winterset Madisonian Thursday, November 14, 1901, pg 8, Macksburg News Item

Mrs. Means departed this life the 8th inst and was buried the 10th at the cemetery south of town. She leaves a host of friends and relatives to mourn her loss. We extend our sympathy to the family.
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Winterset Madisonian, Thursday, November 14, 1901, Pge 8, Kasson News Item

Mrs. L. F. Means died at her home Friday evening, after an illness of more than a year. Her obituary will be in the next number of this paper.
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Winterset Madisonian, November 21, 1901
Winterset, Iowa

Anna Weeks was born at Peoria, Ill., August 1, 1844, and came with her parents to Madison county in 1859, where she resided till her death, November 8, 1901. She was married to L. F. Means September 21, 1865. Her early life was spent in teaching, having taught in Missouri and in several townships in this county, and will be remembered as one of the most successful teachers in Madison county.

For the past year she has been an invalid. She went to Chicago in September, 1900, and underwent a difficult operation which did not prove permanently successful.

At the age of sixteen she was converted and united with the M. E. church of which she has lived a constant member and earnest worker until her death. The removal of such a life from among us leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by her friends, and a serious loss to the community in which she lived. She was a noble woman, a faithful Christian and a loving mother. We mourn for her but not as those who have no hope.

Her funeral was preached by her pastor, Rev. Guest. A large concourse of neighbors and friends were present to pay a last tribute of respect to her memory. She was laid to rest to await the judgment.
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Winterset Reporter – November 14, 1901
Pg 1
Macksburg

Mrs. Means died last Friday morning and was buried the 10th in the Macksburg cemetery.
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Winterset Reporter – November 14, 1901
Pg 1
Monroe Township

Died, Friday evening, Nov. 8, 1901, Mrs. L. F. Means, at her home near Kasson. Deceased was loved and respected by all and her death has cast a gloom over the entire community. Bereaved ones have our sympathy.

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