Emily Ann (Pursel) Seevers (1910)

GUIBERSON, PURSEL, SEEVERS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 5/6/2010 at 15:29:38

Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 24, 1910
Page 3

Obituary

Mrs. Emily A. Seevers died at her home three blocks north of the business district of Winterset, Friday, Feb. 18th, at 7:15 p.m., after a long illness and helpless condition which extended over a period of four years.

Emily A., eldest daughter of Basil and Ann Pursel was born May 22, 1840, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. At this place she received a part of her education.

In October, 1850 her parents emigrated to Madison county and settled on a farm in Union township, now spoken of as the Peter Ryner farm. She attended school in a log building, the first in Union township, which stood on the George Armstrong farm, and afterwards the Guye school, one of her teachers here being Capt. John S. Goshorn, father of Arthur Goshorn of Winterset. During the fall of 1851 she attended school in Winterset in a building which stood where the Monumental Park now stands, this school being taught by the Hon. M. L. McPherson, afterward an attorney of the Winterset bar.

In 1865, the family sold the farm and moved into Winterset, occupying for many years a house in the same block in which Mrs. Seevers passed the last twenty-nine years of her life, this block having practically always been her home since the removal from the farm.

She was married Jan. 1, 1867, to G. W. Seevers, of Winterset. Three children were born, a son and a daughter each dying in infancy, and Jozell Seevers, who with her husband survive. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. America M. Guiberson of Union township.

In her early years she had a large acquaintance in Winterset and Madison county and to the last she was good authority on any historical event of the county which was being discussed or made of record. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Winterset.

The life of Mrs. Seevers was purely domestic, she was a member of the old school, her world was that of the family circle and there she will be remembered for unfailing interest and devotion to duty, her mind to the last being occupied by household and family cares.

Funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church Sunday, Feb. 20th, conducted by the Rev. J. S. Corkey, pastor, and interment made in the Rock City cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: An essentially identical obituary appeared on the same date on page 1 of the Winterset Madisonian.

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