Susan (Guiberson) Armstrong (1911)

ARMSTRONG, EATON, GUIBERSON, HILL, MCMANUS

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/23/2010 at 08:50:03

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 13, 1911
Page 5

At the advanced age of 92 years, 5 months and 20 days, Mrs. Susan Armstrong passed away at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Armstrong Sunday, July 2, 1911 at 10:30 a.m. Her last sickness was the result of a fall which she sustained last December, resulting in the dislocation of her right hip, which yielded not to the treatment of medical skill nor the careful attention of her friends. Prior to last December, she had been about the house, able to care for herself, and had possession of all her faculties, her eyesight and hearing being very good for one of her advanced years. During this sickness, she was patient and fully resigned to her fate, which she realized was close upon her.

Susan Guiberson was born in the state of New Jersey, January 19, 1819, and was the last, surviving member of a family of eight children. During her childhood, the family moved to the state of Pennsylvania and from there to Holmes county, Ohio, where her days of her girlhood were spent, and where in the month of November, 1840, she was married to George Armstrong of the same county, who predeceased her in the year 1882. To this marriage four children were born all of whom are now deceased, the youngest, Samuel Israel, passing away January 14, 1911.

With the Guiberson family, Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong emigrated from Holmes county, coming directly to Madison county, Iowa, and settled in the fall of 1854, settling in Union township, where they continued to reside until the death of the husband, George Armstrong, since which time the deceased has made her home in Winterset, with her son and daughter-in-law. The Armstrong home in Union township was for many years, known as one of great hospitality. The deceased was one peculiar to the old style of housekeepers and the latch string of her door was always ready to welcome her friends. She was possessed of strong moral qualities and principals and religious convictions, having very early in life, united with the Methodist church, to which faith she clung with wonderful tenacity through all her trials and struggles, and in token of this faith, only a few days before her death, she sang a hymn and repeated one of her usual prayers.

During her last sickness and since the death of her son in January of this year, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna Armstrong, has given her every attention and watched over her with most devoted sympathy and kindness. She is survived by five grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

The funeral service was conducted by Rev. A. A. Walburn, pastor of the M. E. church, and interment made by the side of her husband at Rock City cemetery. Her granddaughters, Mrs. May Hill of Des Moines, Mrs. Maude Eaton of Bondurant and Mrs. Mary McManus of Mabson were present at the funeral.

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