Phoebe Ann (Putnam) Lockwood (1827-1920)

PUTNAM, LOCKWOOD, MCMICHAEL, FREDERICK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/25/2016 at 15:04:11

From Nevada Representative May 13, 1920 (front page)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF MRS. E. W. LOCKWOOD

May 4th, 1920 at her home in Portland, Oregon, passed into the great beyond Mrs. E. W. Lockwood. Her death was the result of extreme old age, having passed her 93rd year April 9th, but only for few days preceding her falling asleep did she lose control of her mental faculties. Her maiden name was Phoebe Ann Putnam, and she was born in Ohio, April 9, 1827. She was one of a family of nine children. Her ancestry belonged to the virile stock of the New England Putnams of which there is none much better and of which she was a typical example. From Ohio she moved on, with her parent, to Michigan; and thence, following her marriage, a year or two later she and her husband and their infant son, Alanson, followed the westward trail to Legrand, Iowa. This was in 1853. Not very long after this date they became residents of Marshalltown. In 1869 or '70, they came to Nevada, and here maintained an unbroken residence for some thirty-five to forty years, and until the death of Mr. Lockwood in June, 1908. Soon after his death she went to Portland, Ore., and made her home with her son Clyde and family for two or three years. Returning to Nevada she remained here until 1904, when she broke up her home here, passed a year in Colorado, and then in 1905 returned to Portland and with her daughter Myrtle established a new home, which was her comfortable and happy abiding place until her earthly life of many years came to a peaceful end.

Mrs. Lockwood is survived by the immediate members of her own family as follows: Sons Alanson and Clyde and their families, and foster daughter, Myrtle Bell Lockwood*, whose affection for her foster mother has been as true and abiding as any own daughter could be. Two daughters, Della and Lessie, and her husband, as stated, died many years ago. Of her less immediate relatives, she is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Wealthy Putnam Frederick, San Diego, Calif., eight grand children, sons and daughters of her son Alanson, Portland, and son, Clyde, Seattle, and eleven great grandchildren. Mrs. Lockwood was a woman of rare qualities of mind and heart, highly esteemed by the community in which she lived and greatly beloved by those who knew her intimately. She was wise and in her tongue was the law of kindness. She looked well to the ways of her household and her children rise up and call her blessed. Precious should be and is her memory as she comes down to her grave here in her old home and among her old time friends.

The relatives from out of town present at the burial were Potter Lockwood of Portland, Ore., Frederick, Watseka, Ill. Mrs. Mary Frederick Wells, Des Moines, and Edgar Putnam, wife and son, Marshalltown.

A simple, unostentatious burial service was conducted at the cemetery by Rev. J. G. Walz of the Central Presbyterian church, assisted by W. P. Payne, an old time friend. And thus reverently and affectionately was the vacated temple of her spiritual being given a fitting sepulture beside kindred dust.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: "Myrtle Bell Lockwood" was born Myrtle Bell McMichael, daughter of Mathew Ellis McMichael and Samantha Evans.