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Mary Amanda (Jenkins) Davisson (1898)

DAVISSON, JENKINS

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 7/10/2007 at 23:43:37

Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, July 27, 1898
Page 4

Death of Mrs. D. D. Davisson

Mrs. Mary Davisson, wife of Dr. D. D. Davisson, died last Monday evening at the family home in this place. For eight months Mrs. Davisson had been prostrated by a stroke of paralysis. She received a former stroke in July, 1895, from which she recovered, but never rallied from the second one.

With the grief which has come to the Davisson family, which is one of the oldest and best known in Winterset, a very large circle of friends and acquaintances will sympathize. Mrs. Davisson was a woman of much more than ordinary intelligence, actively interested and well informed upon matters of public interest and the questions of the day. In the home circle she was a devoted wife and mother, and a true Christian woman.

The funeral was held at the home at half past two o’clock this afternoon.
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Winterset Reporter – July 28, 1898
Pg 4

Mrs. Davisson Passes Away.

Died,--at her home in this city at 6:30 p.m., July 25th, Mrs. Mary A. Davisson, wife of Dr. D. D. Davisson.

Mrs. Davisson was the daughter of W. C. and Margaret Jenkins, old residents of this place and was born in Carroll county, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1826. She moved with her parents to Iowa in 1844 and was married to Dr. D. D. Davisson in Mahaska county, in 1853. They came to Winterset in the spring of 1855 and with the exception of two years spent in Adel have resided here ever since.

Mrs. Davisson was the mother of four children, Katie, Ralph, Ross and Robert B., of whom Robert is the only one living.

She was one of the most kind and loving women in the community, always indefatigable in works of church and charity. The funeral occurred yesterday, July 27th, at 2 p.m. The services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Robinson, of Des Moines and Rev. W. G. Riheldaffer of the 1st M. E. church, with which body the deceased has been affiliated for many years.
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Winterset Madisonian – August 3, 1898
Pg 5

Death of Mrs. Davisson.

Died, on Monday evening, July 25, Mrs. Mary A. Davisson, wife of Dr. D. D. Davisson, of this city.

Mrs. Davisson was born in Carrollton, Carroll county, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1826. She came with her parents to Iowa in March, 1844, was married to Dr. Davisson, April 5, 1853, and they moved to Winterset in April, 1855, where she has resided until the time of her death.

In passing away of this noble Christian woman this community has not only lost one of its oldest and most prominent members, but one of its active, efficient and useful workers in all religious philanthropic, moral and reformatory movements.

In her early girlhood she united with the M. E. church of which she was a devoted member all her life, sympathizing and co-operating in all its work for the advancement of the religion of Christ on earth. She not only professed the Lord Jesus in her creed, but her whole beautiful Christian life was marked by an earnest and consistent seeking to follow his example. And in this precious faith she died.

Mrs. Davisson was actively connected with nearly all organized movements in this community for the betterment of society and advancement along all the lines of social, literary and moral progress. She was president of the “W.C.T. Union,” “The Woman’s Suffrage Club” and “Current Topics Club,” the efficient leader in all these societies from their beginning until she was laid aside by sickness. Intellectually she was a woman of unusual ability, a brilliant conversationalist, a reader and thinker over a wide range of literature, science, politics, theology and social and reformatory questions, decided in her convictions and yet always broad and charitable in her views, liberal and progressive and yet always conservative and ever courageous and outspoken for what she regarded as right. A life of usefulness that in its passing away has left a void which cannot soon be filled in Winterset society.

One of the peculiar characteristics of Mrs. Davisson was her wonderful love of flowers, which she cultivated in great variety and profusion. These she loved not only for their beauty and the pleasure she enjoyed among them, but she took great delight in giving them to her friends. For many years there have been few funerals or weddings or festive occasions in Winterset to which a free offering of flowers from Mrs. Davisson’s garden did not find its way.

Appropriate to this characteristic of her life, most beautiful flowers of her own planting and raising covered the casket in which she was buried.

The funeral was at the home on Wednesday afternoon. The services were conducted by Rev. Riheldaffer, pastor of the M. E. church, assisted by Dr. Robertson, of Des Moines, for many years a warm friend of the Davisson family. A very large procession followed the beloved remains to the cemetery where they were laid away among the green trees at rest at last.

Note: Burial in the Winterset Cemetery.

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