Rebecca (Bretton) Gracey (1933)
GRACEY, BRETTON
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 2/17/2007 at 15:28:47
Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
April 6, 1933Rebecca Elizabeth Gracey
Rebecca Elizabeth Bretton was born in Hartford, Ohio, February 13, 1844 and died March 29, 1933 about 9 a.m. at her home in Truro, Iowa, aged 89 years, 1 month and 7 days. Her passing came peacefully at the end of a long and useful life.
She came to Iowa with her parents at the age of 8 and lived for awhile in Des Moines, when that city consisted of a fort at the junction of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.
She lived for a time in Clarke county near Osceola.
She was united in marriage to William Gracey in 1866 and they moved to a farm in Madison county three miles south of Truro and lived there about 55 years and 9 years in Truro. To this union 8 children were born, 3 girls and 5 boys. The living are Emery of Farland, Lon of Truro, Frank of Libertyville, Illinois; Bert of St. Mary's and Herman of Osceola.
She leaves to mourn her passing 5 sons, 24 grandchildren, 55 great grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends of the years.
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