Polly (Brown) Hankins (1820-1912)

BROWN, HANKINS, BECKER, DONAHUGH, DUNAHUGH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Representative August 27, 1912 (front page)

MRS. POLLY HANKINS

Mrs. Polly Hankins, an early settler of Story County and mother of citizens well known here, died Monday August 15, 1912, at the home in Marshalltown of her daughter, Mrs. Nancy Becker. She had been for years an invalid but her death was really the result of an exhaustion of vital forces incident to her age of ninety-two, and it followed an illness of but a few hours. Polly Brown was born in Kentucky on January 12, 1830 grew up and married in Illinois and came with her husband and family to Story county in 1865. They settled in Collins township where they lived until the latter '70s, when they and some of the younger children removed to Kansas. Mr. Hankins died there in 1881, and after that event Mrs. Hankins returned to Iowa and made her home chiefly with her daughter, Mrs. Becker. For a long time they lived at Nevada; but in recent years their home has been at Marshalltown, where the funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon. The interment will be at Nevada Thursday at ten o'clock.

Mrs. Hankins was one of the mothers of the county, and she was honored in a wide circle. Her eldest son Davis, long a resident of Maxwell, died a few years ago in Washington; but she is survived by three sons and two daughters, John, George and Robert, Mrs. Becker and Mrs. Sam Dunahugh as well as by numerous grandchildren.