Martha (Callison) Hanson (1919)

BOND, CALLISON, FRAZIER, HANSON

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 1/30/2008 at 12:50:07

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 11, 1919

Martha C. Hanson

The people of Cummings and vicinity were shocked upon hearing of the sudden death of Mrs. Martha C. Hanson Saturday morning, May 31st at eleven o'clock. She had been under the doctors care for some time having been at Rochester, Minn., for several weeks in February. While her physicial decline was due to heart trouble she had recently shown marked signs of improvement. On the morning of her passing from earth she was in her usual cheerful mood and gave her loved ones no special cause for immediate alarm till suddenly as if passing through a door she stepped out of this tenement of clay and her soul had gone.

Mrs. Hanson was the daughter of the late Cyrus and Mary Callison and was born Aug. 10, 1859. At the age of one year she moved with her parents from Fulton county, Ill., the place of her birth to Warren county, Iowa, where she spent the greater part of her life. She received her education in the vicinity and later in company with her brothers attended Penn College and Des Moines college.

On the twenty-second of March 1883 she was united in marriage with Carl J. Hanson. To this union was born two boys and two girls. The boys, Earl and Grant were called in early childhood. She was converted when but a girl and united with the Friends church. She was an earnest and faithful Christian, always prompt in religious duties and ever ready to do good in a quiet unassuming manner, for she was an ideal homekeeper, deeply interested in the happiness of her family and friends.

She leaves her husband, two daughters, Maude and Mabel, three brothers, Calvin T. of LaVerne, Okla.; A. Frazier of Buffalo Creek, Colo. and (print missing) uncles, Woods and V. L. Callison of Winterset, Iowa and one aunt Minda Bond of Abingdon, Ill., all of whom were present for the funeral services besides many other relatives and friends who will mourn their loss.

(line missing) from the home on Tuesday June (?) at 2 p.m. by Rev. Wm. Kirby of the Des Moines Friends church and Rev. Taylor Guthrie of Glenwood, Iowa. Interment was made in the Norwalk cemetery.

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