Hastings, Mrs. Harriette E. 1841-1917

HASTINGS

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/24/2010 at 12:02:36

Mrs. Harriette E. Hastings, one of the pioneer women of Plymouth County, died on Wednesday, September 12, at her home, 1316 Madison street , this city. Her death was due to failing powers, she having been in poor health for some time.

Mrs. Harriette E. Hastings near Dunbar, was born September 6, 1841, at Attica Village. New York. In early life she moved with her parents to Wisconsin where she was married to Lucius Hastings, May 1, 1859. They moved to a farm in Stanton township, seven miles south of this place, in 1872, and twenty-three years ago they moved to Le Mars, where Mr. Hastings died twelve years later.

For the past eleven years she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Bixby, in whose home she died on September 12, 1917, at the age of 76 years and 6 days. Her husband, two children and one grandchild have gone to their rest before her, while one daughter, Mrs. Harriette Bixby, and three grandchildren, Edythe, Lester and Lucius Bixby, are left to mourn her departure.

She was converted when a girl in her early teens and united with the Baptist Church, of which she remained a devoted member until after coming to Le Mars, when she attended the Presbyterian church.

In her later years she was not physically able to attend church services regularly, but her devotion to the truth and the church of her Lord was beautifully suggested by the fact that she left her eye glasses on her well worn Bible by her bedside when she entered into the larger joys of her Lord.

The funeral services will be held this afternoon at the home at two o'clock, Rev. D. M. Metzger officiating, and at the First Presbyterian church at half past two where services will be conducted by Rev. G. C. Butler, of Sao City, and Rev. H . V. Comin, pastor of the church.

~Source:
Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
September 14, 1917, Le Mars, Iowa