HADFIELD, Aaron 1819-1914

HADFIELD, COOPER, DARBYSHIRE, RANGELEY

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Date: 9/30/2009 at 16:04:32

Died Dec 1, 1914, Brownsville, Burr Oak Twp, Mitchell County, Iowa. Farmer and Land owner for almost 50 years in Brownsville. Aaron and his wife Eliza (Cooper) came to the area in 1869 with their son Arthur, and several children of his previous marriage to Elizabeth Darbyshire, who died in January 1866 in Waukesha Wisconsin.

Aaron was born in New Mills, Derbyshire, England, 27 May 1819, to John and Ellen (Rangeley) Hadfield. Aaron and Elizabeth and his family, followed other members of the family and had immigrated to Wisconsin from England in 1842. From there his siblings and their children branched out to Iowa, Dakota Territories, Nebraska, Colorado and Washington States.

Aaron Hadfield was preceded in death by his wife Eliza Cooper who was buried in the Brownville cemetery on Feb 27, 1899. Mr. Hadfield was a well known major farmer in Brownsville. He was a very active and strong man, and will be missed by all. Survivors include children of the first marriage, James Henry of Seattle, Rangley of Fullerton, Nebraska, Elizabeth (Orr) of Murdo, South Dakota and Harriet (French) of Osage, Iowa. Also three sons and two daughters of Eliza Cooper, Arthur Guy of Washington, Bert of Canada, Clifford of Glenburn, N.D., Maude (Markham) of Osage, and Miss Mertie Hadfield of Brownville who has kept the family home since her mothers death. Also there are thirty grandchildren and thirty-five great-grandchildren.

Funeral was held from the Methodist church at Brownville, Dec 4, 1914, the pastor Rev L. O. Thompson, officiating. Burial was in the Brownville Cemetery. Obituary appeared in the News from St Ansgar, Iowa in December of 1914.

(Aaron's brother Joseph Hadfield owned and operated successful stone quarries in and around Waukesha and north in Lannon, Wisconsin for a number of years, and served the Chicago area with building materials after the great Chicago fire. A half-brother William Shaw Hadfield was a frontiersman in Logan, Colorado from about 1863, when Aaron's father John immigrated to Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1863 with his remaining family.)

Submitted by James Hadfield
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