Hazlett, Mary (Mrs. Henry?), 1840-1898

HAZLETT, HAZLITT

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/8/2014 at 23:52:05

Into The Life Beyond.
HAZLETT--On August 24, 1897 [i.e., 1898]. Mrs. Mary Hazlett died at her home in Sioux Township Wednesday August 24 1898, aged 58 years.

The deceased was born in the year 1840 and came to this country with her parents when about seven years old. At the age of 17 she married [?]. E. Hazlett [first initial obscured] in Maryland where they lived until 28 years ago this month when they came west and homesteaded the farm upon which she spent the remainder of her life and died. Ten children were born to herself and husband nine of whom are living and were present at the funeral. Her husband had preceded her in leaving this world of trouble and unhappiness some six years. The lady was one of the earliest of the brave pioneers who started the civilization of this part of the country and along with the others faced many dangers and underwent many privations. Her neighbors held her in high esteem as was shown by the large number who came some of them from long distances to attend the funeral which was held Thursday. Rev. Geo. S. Evans of the Congregational church at Hudson conducted the services. The body was taken to the Beloit cemetery for interment and laid to rest alongside the husband and s[obscured]. The Bee extends its sympathy to the bereaved sons and daughters.

Source: Rock Valley Bee, August 26, 1898.

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DIED:--At her home five miles northeast of here on Wednesday morning, Mrs. Mary Hazlitt, aged sixty years. The deceased has been very ill ever since early in the spring and it was thought several times that she could not survive her awful sufferings, but she lingered on until Wednesday morning, when her spirit took flight to a better land. She leaves nine children, five sons and four daughters all grown up, besides numerous other relatives to mourn her loss. Mrs. Hazlitt was a good Christian woman, well liked and highly respected by all who knew her, and she leaves scores of friends who deeply sympathize with the bereaved ones she leaves behind.

Source: Alton Democrat, August 27, 1898: Hudson Hits.

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The online burial list for Beloit Cemetery (Beloit, Lyon County) has Hazlitt, Mary, died 8-24-1898 aged 58 years, wife of H., born 1840; and Hazlitt, Henry, died 2-21-1892 aged 59, born 1833, on same stone with Mary.

The Ancestry.com database, "Iowa, Select Deaths and Burials," has Mary Hazlett, age 59, widowed, born Ireland, d. 24 Aug. 1898 in Sioux County. buried Beloit, IA.

The Find A Grave website has a photo of her headstone; gives her name as Mary Ward Hazlitt (no source given for her middle name); gives her birth as 1840, Ireland, and her death as Aug. 24, 1898, Sioux County, IA; includes the above transcription of her death notice from the Alton Democrat; gives her spouse as Henry Hazlitt (1835-1892); and gives probable children as James E. Hazlitt (1857-1935), Frank Hazlitt (1865-1935), Ellen Hazlitt Tuynman (1871-1942), Alfred George Hazlitt (1873-1931), and Adaline I Hazlitt Tuynman (1875-1926).

The Sioux County Bee, April 22, 1898, has a news note about a woman that may be her, with an erroneously identified husband:
Mrs. Wm. Hazlett, residing at the home of her son Frank in Settlers township, is suffering severely from the effects of a cancer. She has been quite sick all winter and while it was expected that she would improve with the milder spring weather, she is slowly failing and it is feared that she may not recover.