Lydia Margaret (Hampton) Stevenson (1923)

BALL, BOGUS, GILLAND, HAMPTON, KEHNE, MARTIN, MCCLEARY, SCHEDKO, SKINNER, STEVENSON, TILTON

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 7/9/2007 at 17:18:52

Earlham Echo
Earlham, Iowa
Thursday, April 26, 1923
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LYDIA STEVENSON

Lydia Margaret Hampton was born January 3rd 1849 in Ohio and died April 19th, 1923, aged seventy-four years, three months and six day.

Her mother was a Virginian who came north after her marriage.

Eight years of Mrs. Stevenson's girlhood were spent in Ohio, then she came with her parents to Iowa, living at Eddyville, Blakesburg and in Marion County.

She was married to Grandson F. Stevenson, August 5th, 1866 at Cuba, Iowa. Thirty six years ago they moved to Des Moines where the husband, a Civil War veteran, died February 14th, 1904. To this union were born eight daughters and three sons. Three daughters have passed on; Mrs. Fannie B. Ball, who met a tragic death in an automobile at the railroad crossing near Dexter seven years ago. Mrs. Mary Bogus and Della, dying in infancy. The children who today are bereft are:

Chas Frederick Stevenson, Earlham, John O. Stevenson, Menlo, Iowa, Etta L. Kehne, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Ethel M. Martin, Blakesburg, Iowa, Letta M. Tilton, Des Moines, Iowa, Dona M. McCleary, Earlham, Wm. P. Stevenson, Los Angeles, Calif., and Bertha J. Schedko, New York City. In her father's family of eleven only two sisters, Mrs. Rhoda Gilland of Omaha, Neb. and Mrs. Anna Skinner, Rockford, Illinois ar left. She also leaves twenty grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren.

Mrs. Stevenson united with the Methodist Church when a girl of eleven. After moving to Des Moines, she joined the United Brethren Church. Since her residence in Earlham, six years ago, she united with the Church of Christ here, to which she has ever shown loyalty and love.

In the calm eventide of life she expressed her hope in the future and her interest in her own dear ones in the following especially marked verses.

"And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me," and "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."

Funeral services were conducted at the Church of Christ Tuesday morning at 9:30 by the pastor M. B. Pringle. The body was then taken to Des Moines for interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.

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