TREAT, Harriet "Hattie" (Preston) 1853-1884

TREAT, PRESTON, CHURCH, CAIN, BARRETT

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Date: 2/18/2014 at 18:57:38

Harriet “Hattie” (Preston) Treat

May 18, 1853 – September 24, 1884

MRS. EUGENE TREAT

Mrs. Eugene Treat, of Ferguson Street, South side, died yesterday morning at ten o’clock after a long and painful illness from cancer of the breast.

For the past six months she has been a terrible sufferer, and the best medical skill of this city has been employed to attend her, and about six weeks ago a council of four physicians was called in and an operation performed, when they removed three cancers or tumors.

For a time she seemed to improve, but was taken sores and gradually grew worse until death came to her relief.

About three weeks ago she lost an infant baby, which seemed to worry her very much in her weak condition, and then to know that very soon she would follow it and leave behind her five small motherless children must have been a terrible thing for the poor woman to realize just in the prime of life, scarcely thirty-one years ago.

The husband feels the loss of his dear companion terribly, bt he has the satisfaction of knowing he had done all he possibly could for her in the long weary weeks and months of pain and suffering.

The funeral took place this afternoon at two o’clock from the residence.

Rockford Daily Gazette, September 25, 1884
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Hattie was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois

Harriet “Hattie” Preston was born May 18, 1853 in Ohio, the daughter of Joseph and Louisa Preston. The family lived in Mitchell County, Iowa from 1860 on. Her parents are buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Riceville, Mitchell, Iowa.

Hattie Preston married Eugene Ashley Treat on November 21, 1871 in Mitchell County, Iowa
1870 US Census: Jenkins, Mitchell, Iowa
Joseph Preston 56 born abt 1814 New York
Louisa Preston 47 born abt 1823 New York
Hattie Preston 17 born abt 1853 Ohio

Iowa Marriage Record : Hattie Preston married Eugene Treat on November 21, 1871 in Mitchell County, Iowa
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1880 US Census: Riceville, Mitchell, Iowa

Eugene A Treat 31 born abt 1849 Ohio
Hattie Treat 27 born abt 1853 Ohio
(a) Ella 7 born abt 1873 Iowa..married Wilson Barrett
(b) Arda 5 born about 1875 Iowa
(c) Nellie 3 born abt 1877 Iowa..married William Cain
(d) Carrie 10 months, daughter born abt 1879 Iowa..married Harry Church
(e) Louisa Preston, widow, Mother-in-law born abt 1823 New York.