Harriet Melinda (Berry) Nance Jones (1902)

BERRY, JONES, NANCE

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 7/8/2007 at 22:59:11

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 23, 1902
Page 4

ADDITIONAL LOCAL

Mrs. Jones, the aged mother of supervisor Jones of Scott township, died on Sunday of this week. Funeral services were held Monday from the Bethel M. E. church and the remains laid to rest in the Peru cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, October 30, 1902
Page 6, Column 2

Harriet M. Berry was born November 6th 1827 in Menard county, Ill., and passed to her heavenly home October 19th, 1902 in Madison county, Iowa, aged 74 years, 11 months and 13 days. In 1840 March 20th she was married to Redding Vance. To this union was born four children two sons and two daughters of whom three are living. Being left a widow and having the responsibility of caring for her four fatherless children, “which she did with untiring devotion and courage.”

In 1856 she was married to J. T. Jones. To this union were born two sons both of whom are living; by this marriage she became the mother of four motherless children to whom she was a mother indeed, as they lovingly testify. In 1864 they came to Iowa and settled in Scott township, Madison county , where they lived until 1886 when on the fourth of July Mr. Jones passed away, since which time she has resided at the old home with the youngest son.

At the age of fifteen she was converted and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and remained a devoted member of that church until 1882, then having no church of her choice near she untied with the M. E. church Bethel class Winterset circuit Des Moines Conference Iowa, to which she was loyal and faithful until she was called to join the church triumphant on high. She was always a sympathizing, loving, sunshiny christian, beloved by all who knew her. The high esteem with which she was held was witnessed to by a throng of tearful faces of those who looked upon and followed her remains to the cemetery.

The funeral services were held at the Bethel church, after which she was laid to rest in the Peru cemetery.

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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published. Her first husband's name "Vance" is, per numerous census records, "Nance".

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