Nancy Ellen (Noble) Williamson (1920)

KING, NOBLE, WILLIAMSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34

The Indianola Herald
Indianola, Iowa
Thursday, October 28, 1920
Page 7, Column 2

Nancy Ellen Noble was born February 19, 1835, in Rush county, Indiana, and in her early childhood she moved to Madison county, Indiana, where she grew to womanhood. In 1852 she married John L. Williamson and with him came to Madison county, Iowa in 1856 and they lived upon the farm from which the site of Bevington was taken and after her husband’s death she moved to the home near Conger in Warren county and laid out the town site of Conger and here was her home till her death, October 19, 1920, aged eighty-five years and eight months. She was the mother of six children, two of them dying in their infancy, and there survive her: Mrs. Henry King, of Sac City, and three sons, E. C. and E. E. Williamson, of Des Moines, and J. F. Williamson, of Dickinson, North Dakota. Also eight grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.

When twelve years old she joined the Methodist Episcopal church and remained loyal and true to her faith till her death. This intense love for her church was shown in her gift of a lot and a large share of the money needed for the building of a church building at Bevington and when after a few years the Methodist class was discontinued and an attempt to remove the building was made she went into court and obtained a decree perpetually enjoining its removal.

Her experience and toil for her home and her two little children during the absence of her husband for three years service as a soldier in the Civil war gave her an intense loyalty and love for her country and its flag and by her request these will be evidenced by the beautiful flag she had cherished for years being place at her grave not to be taken down as she said “till the last thread was gone.”

The last few months of her life were spent at the home of her daughter, Mrs. King, in Sac City, where she died. The body was brought to Wick and after a funeral service at the church conducted by Rev. S. W. Lee, the interment was in the family lot in the nearby cemetery.

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