Alice (Monaghan/Monahan) Pierce

MONAGHAN, MONAHAN, PIERCE, JONES, NUGENT, PEARSON, MURPHEY

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/19/2012 at 20:02:55

From Story County Watchman January 12, 1906

Death of Mrs. Pierce.

Mrs. Alice Pierce, wife of the late Edward Pierce, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. N. P. Jones in Des Moines, Iowa, January 6, 1906.

Alice Monaghan was born in Monaghan County, Ireland and came with her parents to this county when but a child. She was married to Edward Pierce May 27, 1853, at Lima, New York. Two sons and four daughters were born to them. One son died in infancy but the other children have grown to manhood and womanhood and are Edward Pierce, Jr. of Shipley, Ia., Mrs. N. P. Jones, Mrs. James Nugent, Mrs O. E. Pearson all of Des Moines and Mrs. Alice Murphey of Pipestone, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce come to Story county in 1874 and settled on a farm six miles south of Nevada where they made their home for twenty-nine years. Four years ago they moved to Nevad where they lifed until the death of Mr. Pierce, April 17, 1904, since which time Mrs. Pierce has made her home with her daughters in Des Moines. The funeral was held at the church of the Visitation Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock and interment in St. Ambrose cemetery, Des Moines.

Mrs. Pierce was a most excellent woman and will be greatly missed by friends in and around Nevada as well as in Des Moines.