Hannah (Van Horn) Stumbaugh/Stombaugh (ca. 1830-1894)

VAN HORN, VANHORN, STUMBAUGH, STOMBAUGH, DAVID, SANDIDGE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/1/2011 at 10:06:21

From Story County Watchman October 19, 1894

OBITUARY.--The funeral of Mrs. H. J. Stombaugh was held at the Methodist Church in Nevada Monday afternoon, Rev. J. R. Horswell conducting the service. Mrs. Stombaugh was a native of Tippecanoe county, Indiana. She came to Des Moines in 1855, and her marriage occured in that city the following year.* From 1879 to 1889 her residence was in Kansas; since then it has been Iowa, and for the past two years, Story county. Her life slosed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Davids*, northeast of town. Her age was nearly sixty-three, and her membership with the M. E. Church dated from 1858. The fatal malady, cancer, had kept her from extensive acquaintances in this vicinity, her spirit was at peace, and the transit form this life a happy release.

* SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Marriage records show Hannah Vanhorn married "Abraham Staumbauck" in Polk County, Iowa July 13, 1856. "Mrs. Davids" is Katie (Stumbaugh) David who married Darius David, son of Isom Joshua David & Lucy Jane Sandidge.