Francis Highland Beguin 1843-1904

HIGHLAND, BEGUIN, BARRETT, BANNON, MCKEE, STRAIT, VOSS, WYATT

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 12/31/2006 at 08:18:02

Emmetsburg Democrat; Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa; Wednesday, September 21, 1904.

Death of Mrs. Francis Beguin

Mrs. Francis Beguin passed away at her home on Clark Street on Tuesday after a sickness of several weeks, the immediate cause of her death being a stroke of paralysis which occurred on Friday of last week. For some time she had been in poor health and had been gradually failing in strength, the much hoped-for improvement failing to come. Brief funeral services were held at the home on Saturday, Reverend J. L. Blanchard, of the Congregational Church, officiating and the remains were taken to Rolfe, Iowa, for internment.

Deceased lived a Christian life and bore with true Christian fortitude all her ills and directed her children along the path of right and justice. She was born at Easton, Pa., March 27, 1843, her parents being Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Highland. She was one of a family of five children and one sister survives her, being Mrs. Mary Faulk, of Auburn, Iowa. When but a child, her parents moved to New York City, where she lived until she was 13 years old when the family moved to Ottawa, Illinois, where she was united in marriage to Francis Beguin on October 25, 1860. She came to Iowa nineteen years ago and for sixteen years resided in Humboldt County, the last three years of her life having been spent in Le Mars.

She was the mother of 13 children, seven boys and six girls, all of whom survive her except two. They are, Mrs. John Barrett, Spirit Lake; Mrs. Ed Bannon, Morris, Illinois; Mrs. Frank McKee, Chinook; Mrs. Luther Strait, Humboldt, Iowa; Mrs. Jas. Voss, Gridley, Iowa; John Beguin, Taylor, Idaho; Mrs. Geo. Wyatt, Charles, James, and Ernest Beguin, of LeMars; Julius Beguin, of Bowbells, N D.All of the children were here to attend the funeral except John, who is in Idaho, and who could not be reached in time. -- -- LeMar's Globe -- Post.

Mrs. Beguin formerly lived near Osgood. Her death will be mourned by all who knew her.