Maria Dabney (1889)

DABNEY

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/24/2007 at 08:16:01

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 12, 1889
Page 2

County and City

Mrs. Maria Dabney, so well known here, died Wednesday evening at nine o’clock, at Seattle, W. T., whither she had gone to visit her son Thomas Dabney, now also the home of Richard and J. B. Dabney. The remains will be brought to Winterset for burial, and the funeral services will be held sometime next week, just what day is not yet known. Due notice will be given.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 19, 1889
Page 4

Funeral Notice.

The remains of Mrs. Maria Dabney, whose death at Seattle, W. T., we noticed last week, were sent to this city for interment. The funeral services will be held at the residence of her son, Hon. A. R. Dabney, to-morrow, (Saturday), at 2 o’clock.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 26, 1889
Page 4

County and City

Richard Dabney came back from Seattle, W. T., with the remains of his mother, and to attend the funeral here. He left for that place again Wednesday.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 26, 1889
Page 4

County and City

The funeral of Mrs. Maria Dabney last Saturday afternoon was largely attended, notwithstanding the fact that with business men it was the busiest hour of the whole week, a devotion to the memories of years of friendship not always seen, seldom so well manifested. An obituary appears elsewhere in this paper.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday April 26, 1889
Page 4

OBITUARY.

Mrs. Maria Dabney, widow of Henry Dabney, deceased, was born in Green county, Tennessee, on the 6th day of October, 1813, and died at Seattle, Washington territory, April 10, 1889, thus making the period from the cradle to the grave, 75 years, 6 months and 4 days.

In early girlhood, she moved with her father’s family from Tennessee to Vermillion county, Illinois, where, on the 21st day of October, 1830, she was married to Henry Dabney, of Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1856, she, together with her husband and family moved to Dallas county, Iowa, and in 1857 came to Madison county, where she lived for more than thirty years. In July, 1888, she went with her two youngest sons, Richard and Joseph, to Los Angeles, California. Early in March, 1889, she went with them to Seattle, where another son, Thomas Dabney, was living. After her death the body was embalmed and brought here by Richard Dabney for burial.

The funeral services took place at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Dabney, on Saturday, the 20th inst. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. Horswell, of the Methodist church, assisted by Rev. Mr. Robertson, of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Dabney was the mother of twelve children; nine sons and three daughters, all of whom are living except the oldest daughter, who died in young womanhood. Her beloved husband died in 1870.

She was always loving and affectionate toward husband and children, but during her long widowhood the love and affection, one for the other, between mother and children became unusually strong. The writer knows of no mother who had greater love for all her children, and whose love was more readily reciprocated by them.

In February, 1886, she had a stroke of paralysis which deprived her of the use of her right arm and limb and also of her speech. From the time she arrived at her destination in California until shortly before her death her general health improved and she regained to a considerable extent, the use of her arm and limb but not of her speech. She was up most of the day and until about nine o’clock in the evening of the day of her death. Within five minutes after she retired the spirit departed so gently, that those in the room thought she had fallen asleep. She was conscious to the last and had fully realized for some time that she must soon bid adieu to all earthly ties and was fully prepared for that final journey to the better land.

In early womanhood Mother Dabney was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and during all the years from that time until the day of her death she was a devoted Christian lady and died with explicit faith in the immortality of the soul.

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