Henrietta M. (Wilson) Cole (1846-1927)

WILSON, COLE, ADAMS, BROWN, WOOD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal and The Nevada Representative December 5, 1927 (page 1)

VETERAN'S WIDOW CALLED BY DEATH

MRS. NATHANIAL A. COLE LAID TO REST IN NEVADA CEMETERY SUNDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Nathanial A. Cole, 81, who died at the family homestead south of the city, Friday evening were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00, at the home, after which the body was laid to rest in the Nevada cemetery by the side of her husband, who died February 18, 1920. The services were in charge of Dev. Rector of the Church of Christ of Maxwell.

Thus ended a long and hard struggle of a woman who had been a sufferer for a third of a century, but had never given up and taken to her bed until about two weeks ago.

It was in 1856 that she came to Iowa and to Story county with the Brown family and it was here that she was married to the young Civil war veteran, Nathanial A. Cole, April 29, 1866, shortly after his return from the service.

To this union four children were born, one of them, Clara Augusta, dying in infancy. The sons, all of them single and who have been in the home and assisted in the care of the mother since the death of the husband and father, February 18, 1920, are Austin A., Alfred R. and John L.

Besides the three devoted sons, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Wood of Maxwell*, several nephews and nieces and a wide circle of friends.

Mrs. Cole had been a member of the Church of Christ since early girlhood but of later years had been unable, because of the condition of her health, to be active in the work. However, the Bible and the teachings of her church had been her constant guide during her long and useful life and had been a sustaining factor during her many years of suffering.

The deceased, whose maiden name was Henrietta M. Wilson, was born in Licking county, Ohio, October 25, 1846. Bereaved of her parents when but a child, she was taken into the family of an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Russel Brown*, and was reared to young womanhood by them.

*SUBMITTER'S NOTE: The uncle and aunt of Henrietta M. (Wilson) Cole were David Russell Brown and Nancy Eliza Adams. The 1860 Nevada, Story County, Iowa census lists D. R. Brown and his wife, Nancy E. Brown, living with J. E. Wilson age 15 (Henrietta's sister Juliet Elizabeth Wilson listed as "Mrs. Wood of Maxwell" in the obituary) and H. M. Wilson age 13 (Henrietta M. Wilson.)

Henrietta and Juliet Wilson were the daughters of Alfred B. Wilson and Anna B. Adams. Anna (Adams) Wilson and Nancy Eliza (Adams) Brown were sisters, therefore the aunt of the Wilson girls.