Lawson, Anna Mrs. Peter P.A. 1870-1930

LAWSON, ERICSON

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 3/3/2011 at 17:57:21

From the Hawarden Independent of Jun 5, 1930
Obituary of Mrs. P. A. Lawson
Mrs. P. A. Lawson passed away on the afternoon of Memorial Day at her home south of Alcester. Mrs. Lawson had been failing in health for the past several months and she was taken seriously ill on Mother's Day at the home of her daughter, Mr. Ruby Anderton in Alcester. She was cared for at the home of her duaghter and she then entered the Hawarden hospital where she remained a few days.
When it was learned that medical aid could do nothing for her she was removed to her home where she passed away last Friday.
Anna C. Ericson was born at Kiron, Iowa, July 1, 1870, and died at her home May 30, 1930, at the age of 59 years, 10 months and 29 days. At the age of two she came to Dakota Territory with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Ericson, when the family settled on the homestead, known now for fifty years as the Ericson homestead. Here with her brothers she grew up to womanhood. She was converted at an early age in a revival in the Big Springs settlement and was baptized in 1888 by Rev. J. P. Kaufmann, in the creek near the old Mattson farm. She knew the faith of Christian zeal of the early pioneers. In 1889 she was untied in marriage with Peter A. Lawson and they lived on their farm near Alcester and reared their family of nine children. For a short time they resided on their farm near Flasher ND, and they later returned to the old home near Alcester where she lived until her death. Her church asscoiation have always been in Big Springs and she was the first elected organist of the Big Spring Baptist church and at the church's 60th anniversary it was stated that Mrs. Lawson held the distinction of holding the longest continuous membership in the choir. Her church work was her life and one of her last acts before her final sickness was to get a quilt for the coming Sewing Siciety sale when her physical condition even then was in a grave state. In her home her ability, her sypathy and tenderness, together with a sweet disposition, all went into the making of such a home whose memory will always remain a rich heritage to her girls and boys even to the end of their days. She leaves to mourn her departure her husband and nine children. Harvey of Yankotn SD; Hubert of Krookston MN; Mrs. Goldie Schroeder of Salem SD; Clifford of Flasher ND; Mrs. Pearl Brown of Edgemont SD; Caleb, Archie and Mrs. Ruby Anderton of Alcester and MRs. Sylvia Carlson of Big Springs, eight little grand children and four brothers, Emil, Isaac Ericson, Nimrod and Peter Ericson all of Los Angeles CA, When her own family was about grown her great mother heart made room for another, a little orphaned niece, Edna Mae Ericson, who has enjoyed a mother's care and love for over six years. Her mother, father, a brother Oscar, who lived in Alcester and several younger brothers and sisters preceded her in death.
Her passing is truly a loss to this community as well as Alcester. He rchurch association here made her friends who will feel her loss keenly.
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Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, first at the home and then at the Big Springs Baptist church in charge of her pastor Rev. B. L. Carlton. Interment was made in the Big Springs cemetery. Gone from our sight and association but sill living by the ties of fond memories.