CLYDE, Elizabeth 1811-1886
CLYDE, CONLEY
Posted By: marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 4/16/2010 at 13:05:03
Obituary
Died, at Joliet, Illinois, December 6, 1886, Mrs Elizabeth Clyde, widow of Samuel A. Clyde, formerly of St. Ansgar township, in this county.
Mrs Clyde came to this county with her husband and family in the fall of 1855, and resided on their family farm two miles north of St. Ansgar, until 1873. Since the latter date she has lived with her younger children in this state and in Illinois.
Three children survive their mother: A. W. Clyde, formerly editor of the News, now of McIntosh county Dakota, J. F. Clyde, of this place, and Mrs. J. W. Conley, of Joliet, Illinois.
The deceased was born in Derbyshire, England, November 10, 1811. Came to Otsego county, New York, in 1820, to Jefferson county Wisconsin, in 1844, and to this county in 1855. She was always active in all educational matters, and an earnest and consistent member of the Baptist church nearly all her life. The remains were brought to St. Ansgar, December 8th, and interred beside those of her husband who preceded her more than eighteen years.
Services were conducted by Rev. A. M. Duboc in the M. E. church in St. Ansgar.
[Osage News - Dec. 9, 1886]
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NOTE:
Elizabeth is buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural St. Ansgar, Iowa.(Credit: Karen Feldt Robertson)
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