Scribner, Mary S. 1808-1897

SCRIBNER, SHELDON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Plymouth CC (email)
Date: 8/24/2004 at 21:01:42

From the LeMars Sentinel (LeMars, Plymouth Co., Iowa), Thursday, February 25, 1897, Page 4, Column 3:

Death of Mrs. Scribner

Mrs. J. F. Scribner died Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Jones, between nine and ten o'clock, in the 89th year of her age.

Mrs. Scribner was born at Sheldon, Vermont, June 5, 1809*. She was the daughter of Dr. Sheldon afterwards a prominent physician of Troy, N. Y. She was married to J. F. Scribner in 1837 and moved to Elmira, New York. About 1857 she moved with her husband to Janesville, Wis., and in 1870 came to LeMars, where Mr. Scribner died in 1879. Mrs. Scribner was a lifelong member of the Episcopal church and was educated at a church school. She was a woman of rare intelligence and had received educational advantages not accorded to many.

During her last illness which only lasted a short time all of her surviving children but one were with her at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, C. H. Jones and wife in LeMars. The sons and daughters who survive her are Mrs. C. H. Jones, Miss E. R. Scribner, of LeMars, J. W. Scribner of Chicago, E. S. Scribner of Kansas, Mrs. Cook of Kansas City, and Mrs. Ashworth, of Sloan.

The funeral services will be held at St. George's Episcopal church in LeMars, on Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock.
(*Note--Per a family member, Mary's birth year is 1808.)