Ellsworth, Abigail 1845-1915

ELLSWORTH, BLEWETT, RYBERG, GATES

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 10/7/2011 at 11:09:23

Mrs. Abigail Ellsworth, a resident of Iowa for fifty-three years, died Friday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. M. Ryberg, 1512 West Seventeenth street in Sioux City, She was 70 years old. Acute indigestion was the cause of death.

Mrs. Ellsworth was born in Maine December 27, 1845. Fifty-three years ago she came west with her husband and later settled on a homestead near Remsen. There they lived for forty years until the death of the husband thirteen years ago. Mrs. Ellsworth then went to Sioux City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Ryberg.

She is survived by two sons and three daughters. They are: Jefferson Ellsworth, of Remsen; James Ellsworth, of Magnolia, Minn., Mrs. Henry Blewett, of Kingsley; Mrs. W. M. Ryberg and Mrs. F. L. Gates, of Sioux City.

The remains were taken to Remsen for burial and the funeral held at St. Paul’s Lutheran church there yesterday.

– Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1915, page 1.
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DIED IN SIOUX CITY. Mrs. Ellsworth, Mother of Jeff Ellsworth of Remsen, Died at Age of Seventy.

The Ellsworth family was thrown into sadness last Friday, when Mrs. Abegail Ellsworth, the mother of James and Jeff Ellsworth, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Ryberg, Sioux City, with whom she has been making her home for a number of years. Mrs. Ellsworth was seventy years of age at the time of her death. For several years she had been ailing, but lately felt quite well. Last Friday she seemed in fairly good health, ate a hearty evening meal and shortly after she retired for the night she suffered a paralytic stroke, which caused her death at about eleven o’clock.

The body was brought to Remsen Monday morning and was laid to rest in the Remsen cemetery after services at St. Paul church conducted by Rev. John Jost. Rev. Kidder of the Methodist church, Sioux City, of which the deceased was a staunch member, gave the sermon.

Abegail Ellsworth was born on December 27th, 1844, in Augusta, Maine. When a young lady she came to Remsen and in 1870 she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Ellsworth lived on the old home place three miles north-west of Remsen from the time of their marriage until twelve years ago when the husband died and the aged lady went to Sioux City, where she made her home with her daughter ever since.

The deceased is survived by five children, namely, Mrs. Nettie Ryberg and Mrs. Eliza Gates of Sioux City; Mrs. Hattie Blewett, of Kingsley; James of Luverne, Minn., and Jeff, of Remsen.
Mrs. Ellsworth was a life-long and devoted Christian woman, possessed of qualities that made friends for her wherever she went. She had a noble, kind disposition, and her friends, of whom there are hundreds, deeply feel the loss occasioned by her passing, and offer sincere sympathy to the sorrowing children.
– Remsen Bell-Enterprise, August 26, 1915, page 1, column 5
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NOTES:
Death date: August 20, 1915
Abigail Ellsworth is the person who purchased the lot in Oct. 15, 1903 when her husband, William died. Her name and dates are not inscribed on the gravestone.