STOUGHTON, Nettie Althea 1861-1924

STOUGHTON, LELAND, BROWN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2011 at 17:48:50

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MRS. G. A. STOUGHTON
PASSED AWAY MAY 1ST

TAUGHT MANY YEARS IN OSAGE SCHOOLS-
BEEN INVALID FOR LONG TIME

Nettie Althea Brown, daughter of Eilen Leland and Thomas Brown, was born September 20, 1861 in Westfield, Oreans County, Vermont, and passed to the higher life May 1, 1924, at her home in Osage, Iowa, after a long and painful illness.

When nine years of age she came to Mitchell County, Iowa, with her parents and settled on a farm one mile north of Osage. Surrounded by members of a large family she spent a very happy girlhood. She attended the public schools, graduating from the high school and also from the Cedar Valley Seminary. For several years she was a good and efficient teacher in the grade school and in the high school.

It was during the last year she taught that she suffered an attack of rheumatic fever, the effects of which she felt to the end of her earthly life,

April 8, 1886, she was united in marriage to George A. Stoughton and they went at once to Santa Ana, California to make their home. After four years with no improvement in health, they returned to Osage. For many years she and her family made every effort to overcome the disease that handicapped her usefulness. They visited sanitariums and specialists but in vain. She was at last fixed to her chair and the bed. In spite of the terrible suffering, she maintained a happy home and never gave up the details of it's care. To this home came one son, Galen M. Stoughton, who resides in Minneapolis, and with the husband survives to cherish the memory of one who has in a most heroic manner been a faithful wife and a loving mother.

Besides her immediate family she is survived by two sisters and one brother: Mrs. Abbie Boynton and Mrs. Flora Tupper, of Osage, and Mr. Wynn Brown, of Barre, Vermont, besides a host of relatives and friends.

When a young woman she united with the Universalist Church and was a devoted member all her life. Long after she could not leave her home, she acted as chairman of the Mission Circle which met at her home until she became unable to receive them.

Though ridden with pain, she got a lot of good out of life and gave back in full measure. She was a wonderful woman - brave to endure and determined to be useful and helpful in every way possible. Her active mind never failed; she was a life long student, interested in all the topics of the day and an active worker for temperance, woman's suffrage and peace for this and every land.

In the home, in the church, and among the many friends she will be sadly missed, but we firmly believe that her body is at rest and that her spirit has gone on to freedom and by revealed to us in Jesus, our Lord.

[Mitchell County Press, May 2, 1924]
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Osage City Cemetery listing on IaGenWeb/mitchell:

STOUGHTON, NETTIE A. (bur. loc) 0154 3 (death/burial date) 04 MAY 1924.