Dean, Ellen C. 1846-1925

DEAN, LANDON

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LeMars Globe-Post
Thursday, July 2, 1925

AGED KINGSLEY WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Ellen C. Dean Succumbs in Her Home Friday

Kingsley, Ia., July 2 - (Special)-Ellen C. Dean died at her home here
Sunday, June 26, at 3:30. Ellen C. Landon was born in Connecticut in 1846
and came to Iowa with her parents in 1867. They located on a farm in
Woodbury county, northwest of Correctionville, where the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Landon died. While living on this farm the notorious James
Brothers stayed one night with them on one of their raiding trips through
Iowa. Mr. Landon's folks did not know who they were until they had gone, as
they did not harm while at their place.

Mrs. Ellen C. Dean is survived by her husband, Lorenzo Dean, and three
daughters, Mrs. Ollie Navin, of Kingsley; Mrs. William Tallman, of
DesMoines; Mrs. Kenneth Hicks, of Tulsa, Okla. Funeral services will be
held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Congregational church.
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PIONEER KINGSLEY WOMAN

Mrs. L. Dean, a pioneer of Kingsley, residing in that vicinity since 1867, died last Sunday after a long illness at her home in Kingsley.

Ellen Cordelia Landon was born at South Canaan, Litchfield county, Connecticut, August 24, 1846. At the age of ten she came with her parents to Castalia, Iowa. Here her girlhood days were spent.

In 1866, she was united in marriage to Lorenzo Dean. To this union eight children were born. In the fall of 1867 this happy couple, with several other families, came to western Iowa by way of the prairie schooner and settled in Woodbury county.

She leaves her husband and three daughters, Mrs. T. M. Navin, of Kingsley, Mrs. R. K. Hicks, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. W. G. Tallman, of Des Moines. Besides her family she leaves a brother, three sisters, four grandchildren and a host of friends who mourn her departure.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Schroeder in the Congregational church Tuesday afternoon. Her body was laid to rest in the Kingsley cemetery.

~Source: The LeMars Sentinel, July 3, 1925