Day, Adelia (Mrs. Edwin R. ) 1851-1939

DAY, PEEBLES

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 6/22/2016 at 07:03:56

Hawarden Independent March 30, 1939

Again we are chronicling the passing of a will beloved citizen of Ireton and community, one who went many years beyond lie proverbial three score years and ten. In the passing of Mrs. Adelia Day, Ireton has lost its oldest resident. Coming here in the early 70's she saw and experienced the raw prairies and shanties of habitation making the way to the beautiful farms with their splendid homes. Being the mother of a large family of children, she also realized in those pioneer years what it meant to provide, to care, to plan and to realize. Always a woman who loved her home and her loved ones; She lived to see her children grow up and to rear, children of their own. Quiet but deeply interested in
everything good, she made and kept friends who are deeply saddened by her passing.

Adelia Peebles, daughter of Philander and Hannah Peebles, was born Dec. 18, 1851, in Green county; Wis., and passed away at her home early last Friday morning, March 24th, near the hour of 5 o'clock. She had been quite ill f or three weeks but those about her did not realize that she was so near the parting, which came without a struggle, peacefully entering the eternal sleep. She had reached the ripe age of 87 years, 3 months and 6 days. On August 6, 1871, she was united in marriage with Edwin R. Day and shortly after their wedding they started for Sioux county in a. covered wagon and homesteaded southeast of what is now Ireton.

She suffered the many hardships of pioneer life but she had the joy and realization of seeing the
country develop from wild prairie to well organized and prosperous civilization. Leaving the farm for a more quiet life they came to Ireton about 25 years ago and this has been her home ever since. Her husband passed away March 10, 1921. Those who are left to mourn her passing include nine children, Jasper W., Yakima, Wash, ; Eva M. of Ireton; James G. of Salt Lake City, Utah; Geo. W. of Auburn, ash.; Flora A. Bushby, Struble; Ross B., LeMars; Daisy P. King, Sioux City; Delbert E., Ireton; Robert P., Redwood Falls, Minn. There are 16 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren, three brothers and one sister, who also survive her.

Services were held from the home at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon and from the Methodist church at 2:30, with Rev. I. C. McNulty in charge. The large church was filled with relatives, friends and neighbors, who came to pay a last tribute to the one gone on. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. The pall bearers were Roger Grau, John Voltho Jr., Harry Sewick, William Taylor, Gerrit Juffer and Earl Wells. A quartet composed of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Schuette, W. F. Brown and Mrs. Stanley Hooper, with Mrs. Arthur Bartlett at the piano sang several favored hymns of the deceased.

Interment was made in Pleasant Hill cemetery beside the grave of her husband. Those from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Leet Peebles, a brother, of Lake, City, Iowa; Murry, Charles and Melvin Peebles, Lake City; Mrs. Ella Voverka and Miss Oaleta Nicolson, LeMars.