Nancy (Evans) Speer

BLOMQUIST, BRICKER, EVANS, MCQUIE, PIATT, SPEER, WHITE

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 5/29/2006 at 21:25:21

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 14, 1920
Page 1

Death of Mrs. Andrew Speer

Mrs. Andrew S. Speer, one of the oldest settlers in Madison county, died at her home in Jackson township last Thursday evening about six o'clock, after a long illness with dropsy and liver trouble. Mrs. Speer came to this county with her parents, Robert and Elizabeth Evans, in May, 1851, at the age of seven years. In April, 1863, she was united in marriage to Mr. Speer and her entire life has been spent in Iowa. She was the mother of twelve children, who with the husband, mourn her death: Alice Anderson, Elizabeth Piatt, Dicy McQuie, Adela Blomquist, Blanche White, Mabel Bricker and James, Robert, John, William and Charles. One son, Andrew J., died in 1899.

Funeral services, which were held at the home Sunday morning at ten o'clock, were conducted by Rev. Walter Girdner, Pastor of Early Chapel. Interment was made at Worthington cemetery.
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Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, July 22, 1920

Nancy Evans was born near Burlington, Iowa, on the 16th day of March 1844, and died July 15, 1920 aged 76 years, 3 months and 29 days. She was the sixth child in a family of twelve children, and came to Madison County with her parents, Robert and Elizabeth Evans, in May 1851. Her parents settled on a farm north east of Winterset at that time owned by John M. Evans and later moving to the old Evans homestead in Douglas Township where her days were spent in the active duties at that time required of one on a new farm. While her opportunities for schooling were limited, she possessed a fair education for the time, and was a graduate in all the important duties of home making.

She was married to Andrew S. Speer in April 1863 and at one moved with her husband to the home he had prepared for her, where she spent the remainder of her long and useful life. All ways of life was spent in faithfully keeping the home, and ministering to the wants of her husband and family of twelve children.

That her life was one of devotion to duty, is evidenced by the fact that she was never known to complain, but patiently bore the joys and sorrows that fell to her lot without a murmur, and always greeted her relatives and friends with a smile. Her home was always a model of neatness and hospitality, and her friends were numbered by her acquaintances. Her long and useful life has endeared her to all who knew her, and she will be greatly missed and deeply mourned in the community where her lot has been cast.

Funeral services were held at the home, conducted by Walter Girdner, pastor of Early Chapel. Interment was made in Worthington Cemetery.

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