Mary Jane "Jennie" (Baldwin) Warrick (1839-1910)

BALDWIN, WARRICK, RUGGLES

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/4/2017 at 19:46:59

From Nevada Representative June 10, 1910 (front page)

Death of Mrs. M. P. Warrick

Mrs. M. P. Warrick, a pioneer resident of Nevada and mother of the sheriff of Story county, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Miss Georgia Warrick in Des Moines. Her illness was the result of gallstones, aggravated by asthma and heart trouble. The sheriff was called to the city yesterday and his wife followed this morning. It is to be presumed that the burial will be at Nevada; but advices are lacking. Mrs. Warrick was well past seventy years of age; but more extended notice of her will be given later.

From Nevada Representative June 14, 1910 (page 5)

OBITUARY

Mrs. M. P. Warrick

Jennie Baldwin, daughter of Josephus and Margaret Baldwin was born May 10, 1839, near Niles, Michigan; was married November 3, 1859, to M. P. Warrick; came with her husband and their two little ones to Iowa in 1863, stopping for a few months in Marshall county, thence pushing on by train to Colo and by stage to Boonesboro; removing to Nevada in 1871; and here on the farm west of Nevada continuing residence excepting during brief periods at St. Joseph, Missouri, and Des Moines, till occurred the death of Mr. Warrick in 1904; spending the last five years of her life with her daughter Georgiana in Des Moines; there, after brief illness passing away Thursday evening, June 9, 1910, at the age of 71 years and 20 days; and going on Sunday June 12th, from the home in Nevada of her son, Sheriff F. C. Warrick, to final rest in the family lot of the Nevada Cemetery. Thus is outlined a life which, spanning more than the allotted years of mortals, saw and experienced wondrous changes, yet carried poise, helpfulness and cheer to its very close. The union in Mrs. Warrick's veins of German and English blood furnished base for firm character, on which her home associations in a family of eight children, reared within call of the bells of Notre Dame College, with spirits responsive to that call, built intellectual tastes and appreciation of essentials. Mrs. Warrick was a successful school teacher when Mr. Warrick found and won her; and she was eminently a successful homemaker and homekeeper afterwards. The heart which held her own with hooks of steel was big enough to welcome and always be helping somebody else in need of care and uplift, and her humble cottage in Boonesboro and in Nevada centralized hospitality worthy of a mention.

When she went to Boonesboro the city of Boone was not begun, and her coming to Nevada was for the convenience of Mr. Warrick in widening the main street of the little town of Nevada; the moving of Alderman's hardware store being accounted an almost unexampled instance of moving a brick veneered building.

The final rites which were conducted by Rev. W. P. Payne, a friend of the family, among numerous old friends and neighbors, were shared by all her children--Georgiana the eldest and Fred the youngest who had been with their mother at the passing, and Frank who came hurriedly from Dallas, Texas as did also Will E. and wife from St. Joseph, Missouri. Mrs. Warrick's only sister, Mrs. Lucina Ruggles of Chicago, was missed; as was also her only surviving brother, Mr. Amerson Baldwin of Zanesville, Ohio. Mrs. W. H. Baldwin of Ainsworth, Nebraska, wife of a brother lately deceased and their daughter, Miss Vivian Baldwin, were present as were also more distant relatives and several friends as follows: Mrs Ray Cleaver of Fort Dodge; Mrs. Alice Graham and Mrs. James Ingersoll of Boone; Mr. William Miller of Niles, Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Bullard of Maxwell; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tallman of Ames; and Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Zinamaster, Hal Foster, and Misses Auracher and Ethel Saunders of Des Moines.

The flowers on her grave are fading; but grateful memories of her will long keep fresh and fragrant.