Trowbridge, Adelia Mrs. Eleazer 1831-1899

TROWBRIDGE, BROAS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 2/9/2012 at 05:17:00

From the Hull Index of Sep 29, 1899
Grandmother Trowbridge At Rest.
On Wednesday morning after a brief illness of but a few days, Mrs. Trowbridge, better known to Hull people as Grandmother Trowbridge, passed through the portals of death to the home beyond for which she was so amply prepared and so willing to enter.
Mrs. Trowbridge was born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on Jan. 6, 1831. She was married at Danbury Conn., in 1848. The young couple came west early to Chicago, thence to New Lisbon, Wis. where they resided until 1872 when they removed to Iowa in Sioux county, living on the Trowbridge
farm north of town. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Trowbridge, three sons and three daughters two of whom have preceded their mother in death. The husband and father passed away a little over ten years ago, leaving the widow who has just departed, to mourn his death and suffer the loss of the one who had been so long her companion and burden bearer. Since his death Mrs.
Trowbridge has made her home within the families of her children who live in this vicinity.
Her death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cyrus Hollister, with whom she has been making her home for some time past.
Speaking with the knowledge of one who at least had a friendly speaking acquaintance with the deceased, we know her to have been one of the kindliest and loveliest old ladies one seldom
meets. Everyone could so speak of her, and it must be a source of comfort to the children to know was so admired and so well liked.

(Here is included her husband's obit)
From the Alton Democrat of Jun 15, 1889.
Edward B. (Eleazer Benedict) Trowbridge, aged about 66 (70) years, died at his home northeast of Hull, on Tuesday, of cerebro spinal meningitis. Deceased was numbered among NW Iowa's pioneers. Hull Index.
(The submitter has found E. B. Trowbridge in the cemetery lists died 4 Jun 1889 buried with wife Alelia in Hope Cemetery in Hull. He was 70 years 5mo, and 14 days.
His wife died 27 Sep 1899 She was born at Poughkeepsie NY 1831 married 1848 Danbury CN. They came to Sioux county in 1872. He was the father of nine children as found on ancestry.com. He was first married to Sarah Almira Thomas 1826-1848, they had three children - Albert R. 1843-1845, Clark Thomas 1846-1864, Sarah Mira Mrs. Cyrus Hollister 1848-1925. Children of second wife Adelia Broas were - Emma Amelia Mrs. Frank Gay 1854-1890, Ida Ann 1858-, Mrs. Alva Forbes, Hettie Jane 1861-1861, Fred Charles 1866-1947, and Frank Albert 1870-1952.)