Elizabeth Hannah (Picken) Power (1915)

POWER, PICKEN, CLARKE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 1/6/2011 at 11:20:51

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
October 13, 1915, page 5

ELIZABETH HANNAH POWER

Elizabeth Hannah Power was born to the union of James Picken and Margaret Clarke Picken in county Antrim, Ireland, on February 28, 1845, she was the first born of eight children. Her early life was spent at the place of her birth. She was baptized in infancy and at the early age of fourteen she united with the First Presbyterian church of Ahoghill, Ireland. On April 5, 1871 in her home church she was united in marriage to Frances Power. On April 15, 1873, they left Ireland and came to Monmoth, Ill., and two years later they came to Iowa.

Since then they have lived in the vicinity of St. Charles. On coming here she joined the United Presbyterian church by letter from the church of her youth. In the summer of 1889 she and her husband took Margaret Picken, their niece, into their home and together they reared her to womanhood. At a very early age she began teaching in the Sabbath school and three of her first pupils in Ireland were present at her funeral. She will be missed in the home, in the church and in the community, a good woman has gone to her reward.

She died September 26, 1915, aged 70 years, 6 months and 20 days. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, four brothers and two sisters, and several nephews and nieces and a host of friends to mourn her loss.

Funeral services were held in the U.P. Church last Wednesday, conducted by Rev. Bell, assisted by Rev. W. W. Williams and Rev. Piper and her remains were laid to rest in the St. Charles cemetery west of town.

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