Sarah Elizabeth (Buck) Nicoson (1927)
BUCK, JAMES, MCCLEARY, NICOSON, SCHOONOVER, WHITT
Posted By: James Gordon (email)
Date: 11/15/2004 at 13:55:32
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January 1927AN OLD RESIDENT PASSES ON
Sarah Elizabeth, wife of S. S. Nicoson passed away at their home in St. Charles, Friday, January 28th. Funeral services were held at, the M. E. church, Sunday afternoon at l2 o'clock, conducted by tire pastor Rev. Mc Eldowney. Interment was made in the St. Charles cemetery. The pallbearers were five of her grand-sons and the husband of one of her grand-daughters.
A large attendance at the funeral attested to the high esteem in which the deceased was held in this community in which she has lived for about 41 years.
She was well along in years, being nearly 83, and as is often the case at such an age, her heatlh was quite poor. On Monday morning of last week in the early morning, she left the house scantily attired and wandered over to the feed lots of Fred Douglas, who found her when he went to do his chores. He took her to the house then called some of the folks who took her home. She was badly chilled and her feet were some, frozen. All that loving hands and medical skill could do was done, but she was too frail to stand the exposure and she passed away. The sympathy of the community goes out to the bereaved husband and children in their sorrow.
Sarah, Elizabeth. Buck was born in Terra Haute, Indiana, February 10 1844, and passed away at her home in St. Charles, Iowa, shortly after the hour of midnight, January 28,1927, having attained the age of., 82 years, 11 months and 18 days. Her going takes from the community another one of the older and long time residents of the place. She was the last one of nine children.
On December 18, 1861, she was united in marriage to Samuel S. Nicoson at, Linton, Indiana. Ten children came to bless their home_ four boys and six girls; three of these died at a very early age and a fourth, a daughter, Mrs. Ida Nicoson James, passed away in March, 1905, at the age of 29 years.
In February, 1876, Mrs. Nicoson and her family came, to Iowa, which at that time was part of the great frontier portion of our country. They settled first in Lee township, Madison county. In 1886, they moved to South Township in Madison county and located on a farm, three miles west of St. Charles, where they lived for about six years. Then they moved into the town of Hanley, where they lived for twenty-three years. About twelve years ago they moved to St. Charles, in which place they have resided up to the time of her death.
From early infancy she recieved careful christian training from her parents. When she was but a child, she made an open confession of her Savior and united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Morris Chapel in Greene county, Indiana. Her christian experience was genuine and sincere. Not long ago, she said that she always made it the practice of her life to read o portion of the bible every day.
She was one of those quiet retiring earnest followers of her Lord. Her life and example has been a great benediction to her family and to everyone who knew her. Not long ago one said concerning her that to be in her presence was like a foretaste of Heaven. She was remarkable patient and forgiving toward everyone. She was a great lover of little children and was never disturbed by their noise or their presence. She was exceptionally kind to needy and homeless. She made it the rule, never turn anyone away who asked for help.
She was a member of the 0. E. S. and also of the W. R. C. of St Charles.
She leaves a most wonderful legacy to her husband, her children, her grand-children, her great-grand-children and all her friends in the memory of her Christ like life.
Those who are left are her aged and feeble and sorrowing husband, three sons and three daughters, Reuben T. Nicoson, of Osceola, IA., Mrs. Sarah Whitt, of Tolley; No. Dak., George ,F. Nicoson, of' St. Charles, Mrs. Lou Mc Cleary and Mrs. Jessie Schoonover, of St. Charles, IA. and Ira E. Nicoson, of Alfalfa, Okla.; also 25 grand-children. and 25 great-grand-children, besides a very large number of other relatives and friends.All of her children were at her bedside at the time of her death except her daughter in North Dakota and her son in Oklahoma.
A somewhat peculiar and highly cherished incident occurred many years ago during the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Nicoson. Mr. Nicoson's proposal of marriage to her who afterwards became his wife, was expressed in those immortal words of Ruth, the Moabitess young woman to her mothier-in-law, Naomi, as given to us in the Bible. These are tihe words, "Entreat me not to leave thee nor to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where lodgest I will lodge; Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God; where thou diest I will die and there I will be buried. The Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me."
The 65th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Nicoson occurred only six weeks ago. These 65 years of married life have been lived very largely under the shadow and in the spirit of these undying words of Ruth, in which the proposal of marriage was made.
The message conveyed in these words, the incidents connected with them, together with the happy events which followed soon afterwards have been often referred to and often repeated during these happy 65 years of married life. The memory of' those joyous events has been ever kept alive and sweet through the years.
________________________CARD OF THANKS
We wish in this way to thank the friends and neighbors who so kindly helped in every way during the sickness and death one. Also we want to express thanks for the beautiful flowers--S. S. Nicoson, R.T.- Niooson, Geo .F Nicoson, Mrs. Lou Mc Cleary,Mrs. Jessie Schoonover
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 27, 1927
Page 8, Columns 1 & 2ST. CHARLES
Mrs. S. S. Nicoson is in a critical condition from her experience early Monday morning when she got up and dressed, put on a pair of house slippers without any stockings and left the house. When found she was a quarter of a mile from home in a feed lot at the Fred Douglas home sitting down along the fence. She had seen the light in the Douglas home and tried to make it to the house but missed the way. In her wanderings she lost both of her slippers and received several wire cuts about her feet and hands her feet being frozen. Mr. Nicoson is past 86 and nearly blind and Mrs. Nicoson is past 83 and has been able to do the house work with the help of the two daughters, Mrs. Wakeman Schoonover and Mrs. S. W. McCleary.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 3, 1927
Page 1, Column 3AGED WOMAN DIED FROM EXPOSURE
Mrs. Nicoson, of St. Charles, In Delirium Goes Out in Bitter Cold, Across Fields—found in Sheep Lot By Fred Douglas—Dies Thursday Night.
Monday of last week, Fred Douglas, getting up early in the morning, saw his sheep moving uneasily. Going out to the lot he was amazed to find Mrs. S. S. Nicoson an aged woman, 82 years old, barefooted, with an old house rug thrown over head trying to get up to the sheep. “My feet are cold,” she told him. “I am trying to get up to the sheep so I can warm my feet on them. I am on my way to my son’s home”. Mr. Douglas picked the poor woman up and carried her to the house and summoned her friends and a physician.
The morning was moderately cold and there was snow on the ground. Mrs. Nicoson, who lived with her husband, 84 years old, in St. Charles, had gone to bed complaining that she was suffering from a chill. It is now believed that she was suffering an acute attack of influenza and that in her delirium she got up, put on only a delirium she got up, and with only a nightgown on, walked out into the snow, across fields. Tracking her back from the Douglas farm it was found she had climbed two or three high wire fences, and had walked the whole half mile in the snow barefooted. Her feet, arms and back were badly frozen. She died from the shock and exposure Thursday night.
Mrs. Nicoson was a remarkably vigorous woman mentally and physically, and there is no suspicion of insanity. They had lived in Lee township where James Tiernan now lives and were highly esteemed. They had lived in St. Charles since leaving the farm. The funeral was held Sunday, by Rev. McAdow, of the Methodist church.
________________________The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 3, 1927
Page 3, Column 1ST. CHARLES
We understand that Mr. and Mrs. S. W. McCleary will move in with S. S. Nicoson and care for him now that Mrs. Nicoson has passed away. Mrs. McCleary is a daughter of Mr. Nicoson.
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, February 3, 1927
Page 3, Columns 2 & 3Sarah Elizabeth Buck, daughter of John and Thurzah Buck, was born in Sullivan county, Indiana, February 10th, 1844. She was married to Samuel S. Nicoson, December 18th, 1861 and to this union ten children were born. Three died in infancy and one daughter, Mrs. Ida E. James, died in 1905. She is survived by her aged husband, three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Whitt of Tolley, North Dakota, Mrs Lou McCleary, and Mrs. Jessie Schoonover of St. Charles, three sons, R. T. Nicoson of near Osceola, George of Hanley and Ira E. Nicoson of Alfalfa, Oklahoma, twenty-five grandchildren and twenty–five great grandchildren. They came to Iowa in 1876 and settled in Lee township where they lived for a while. Later they moved to a farm west of Hanley and from there into Hanley, where they lived about twelve years ago, then moving to St. Charles. Her death occurred January 27th and funeral services were held in the M. E. church January 30th at 2 p. m., conducted by Rev. B. W. McEldowney. Interment was made in the St. Charles cemetery.
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