Hilda Eliza (Stitt) Ensign (1929)
ENSIGN, STITT, FROELICH, NIELSON, HILDEBRAND
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 6/22/2007 at 10:51:07
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, November 29, 1929
Page 1Death of Mrs. Hilda Ensign
Mrs. Hilda Ensign, a former resident of this county, died Friday November 22 at the age of 68 years. She had been in poor health for several years. Eliza Hildebrand was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Stitt and she was born April 9, 1861 on the Travis farm near Peru.
When the deceased was three months of age, her father, who had had military training in Pennsylvania, organized Company F. Fourth Iowa Infantry, in this locality, at the beginning of the Civil War. Mrs. Stitt and baby returned to the parental home in Kansas until after the war, when they came to Madison county and established their new home. Mrs. Ensign received her education in the Winterset schools, and at the age of sixteen years united with the Presbyterian church and was their organist for many years. Later she served in that capacity in the Methodist church, and after her marriage transferred her membership to the Congregational church of Des Moines.
On June 9, 1880 she was united in marriage to Frederick George Ensign, and they were the parents of one son, Robert George, who now lives in San Francisco. The Ensigns made their home in Des Moines for a number of years.
Mrs. Ensign is survived by her son and his wife and daughter and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Froelich and Mrs. Maude Nielson.
The Rev. A. P. Keast, pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the funeral services Sunday afternoon November 24th at 2:30 o'clock at the Nielson home on East Court avenue, which was her former home and burial was in the Winterset cemetery.
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