Anner Adkison (1892)
ADKISON, BENGE, PREBLE, WILCOX
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Date: 7/22/2004 at 16:28:48
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Oct. 1892Mrs. Anner Adkison
Died at her home in Winterset, October 17, 1892. Anner Wilcox was born in Essex County, N. J. September 20, 1820. She removed with her parents to Ohio in her 12th year, afterward, early in her girlhood into Indiana.
She was married to James Preble in 1840; one daughter, Eudora, now Mrs. A. M. Benge, of this place was born to them during the four years of happy wedded life.
She was married to A. J. Adkison in 1846. They came to Iowa in 1856, and settled in Madison county, and her home has been in or near Winterset ever since.
Mrs. Adkison united with the Christian church in 1857, and has been one of its most worthy members ever since her admission in its sacred enclosure. No words can overrate the value of this most inestimable woman. She ever toward the needy reached a helping hand. In the social circle she was a price-less jewel. In her home she was a light and a joy to every one who was so highly favored as to be one of her family, or her guest.
The accident which caused her death occured on her return home from church, Sunday night, October 2nd. In turning at her home gate, she set her foot unexpectedly where there was no support for her heel. The motion broke the long bone in the hip. The shock to the nervous system brought on nervous prostration.
During the two weeks of suffering not one word of murmuring ever escaped her lips, no complaining but all patience and resignation.
Her son, A. H. Adkison, failed to reach home, owing to snow blockade in the Colorado mountains, and a strike on a western railroad. One brother, John Wilcox, of Storm Lake, and a nephew, John Ludlow, of Des Moines came to the stricken one's bedside.
The funeral was largely attended at her late home, October 19th.
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