Gant, Louise Elizabeth 1872-1905

GANT, BEAULIEU, TESSIER, GAUNT

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/6/2021 at 10:10:59

Note: The correct spelling of the last name is "Gant". I left written the way it was spelled in the newspaper for anyone doing family research. Her mother's maiden name was Tessier.

DIED—At her home in Sioux township, Plymouth county, Iowa, at 11:15 a.m., Saturday, October, 14, 1905, Mrs. Louise Elizabeth Gaunt (Gant), wife of Patrick Gaunt (Gant), of syncope, following an operation, aged 33, years, 5 months, 11 days.

The whole community was greatly shocked Saturday noon on hearing of the sudden death of Mrs. Gaunt. (Gant). There are some people whom one meets that are so bright and pleasing in their ways and have such sunny disposition, one cannot connect them with the thought of death. Of such was the one who has just passed away.

Louise Elizabeth Beaulieu, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bealieu, was born June 3, 1872, on their homestead farm on the Broken Kettle, Plymouth county, where she lived happily at home till in her sixteenth year, when she was united in marriage to Patrick Gaunt (Gant), October 14, 1887, and settled on Mr. Gaunt’s (Gant) farm three miles south of Westfield, where they have resided ever since.

Mrs. Gaunt (Gant) was the mother of eleven children, ten of whom survive, with the husband, to mourn the loss of a devoted mother and kind, loving wife, the oldest child, Laurette, being fifteen years of age and the youngest, Rita, fourteen months old.

She also leaves a father and mother, who are quite elderly people and feel the loss deeply; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Thomas and Miss Leona, who lives with the parents in Westfield.

A large number of friends gathered at the house Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. to accompany the remains to Akron, where services were held in St. Patrick’s church, Father Sullivan officiating. Interment was mad in the Akron Catholic cemetery.

All unite in sympathy with the bereaved families. Those who arrived from a distance to attend the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. John Hodge and little daughters and Peter Beaulieu, from South Dakota.

CARD OF THANKS: We desire to express our thanks to the many friends and neighbors, who so kindly assisted us in the hour of affliction and death of our beloved one.—PATRICK GAUNT (GANT) AND FAMILY; MR. AND MRS. PETER BEAULIEU AND FAMILY.

Akron Register Tribune pg. 8
Thursday, October 19, 1905
Akron, Iowa
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The LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
Tuesday, October 24, 1905

WESTFIELD
Special Correspondence
The funeral services of Mrs. Pat Gaunt (sic-Gant) who died at her home south of town at 11 a.m. Saturday, October 14, after a brief illness were held on Tuesday forenoon at St. Patrick’s church at Akron, Father Sullivan officiating. The services was largely attended by the friends and neighbors of the deceased. Interment was in the Catholic cemetery at Akron. Mrs. Gant leaves a husband and ten children, the oldest being fifteen years of age and the youngest fourteen months old. Although the mother of this large family, Mrs. Gant was still a young woman being at the time of her death thirty three years, five months, and eleven days. She was formerly Miss Louise Beaulieu, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Beaulieu who reside in Westfield. She also leaves two brothers and four sisters all of whom reside at a distance with the exception of Miss Leona who lives with her parents here. The sorrowing families have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in their great affliction.
Peter Beaulieu returned to his home in Nebraska having been called here by the death of his sister, Mrs. Gaunt (sic-Gant).
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