Isabel (Myers) Doak (1911)

DOAK, MYERS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/16/2007 at 17:58:11

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 7, 1911

Death of Mrs. Isabel Doak

Mrs. Isabel Doak, mother of W. H. and Edmund Doak of this place died at her home in Dexter on last Saturday. Her body was brought here for burial and the funeral services held at the home of W. H. Doak on Monday.

Mrs. Doak was for ten years a resident of this county living in Jackson township. A brief notice of her life is published elsewhere in this paper.

OBITUARY

Isabel, daughter of John and Harriett Myers, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, Dec. 5, 1833 and died in Dexter, Sept. 2, 1911, aged 77 years, 8 months and 27 days. She was married to Saml. H. Doak, Feb. 13, 1859.

After their marriage they moved to Missouri. After the breaking out of the Civil War, they moved to Illinois on account of the strong pro-slavery sentiment in Missouri, after a residence there of one year, they moved back to their old home in Pennsylvania, where the husband joined Ringgold's dispatch of the 22d Penn. Cavalry, a regiment that took part in some of the hardest fighting of the war in the Shenandoah valley. The young wife was left at home with her two babies, dreading to read the long list of dead published in the war reports of the newspapers.

In 1878, they moved to Madison county, Iowa. They husband's health was broken while in the army and in 1880, he went to California, hoping to regain health, but died there the following summer.

In 1888 the family moved to Dexter, Iowa, where Mrs. Doak continued to reside with her daughter until her death. Five children remain. They are John M., of Olga, Wash., S. H. of St. Paul, Wm. H. and Edmund of Winterset and Miss Lucy Doak of Dexter.

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