Nancy Hutson Seckrider (1839-1903)

SECKRIDER, HUTSON, BRADSHAW, GIBSON, SWARM, OZMUN, RANDOL

Posted By: Gail and Dennis Bell
Date: 6/19/2005 at 09:11:15

THE MAXWELL TRIBUNE, Maxwell, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, 14 May 1903, page 1. "OBITUARY - Mrs. Nancy Seckrider, the subject of this sketch was born in Henry county, Indiana, January 5, 1839, and died May 9, 1903, age sixty-four years, four months and four days. She came with her parents, James and Mary Hutson, to Iowa, when but a girl. In 1857 she was married to J. H. Seckrider; to this union was born seven children, two sons and five daughters. All were present at her death except Mrs. William Bradshaw and the oldest son, Jesse, both kept away by sickness. All are married but Will. His mother's place can not be filled to him. They were former citizens near Maxwell where children were all born and raised, the most of them three miles east of Maxwell, and are well know in that neighborhood. Many will read this with sorrow. None knew her but to love her. She was kind to all she came in contact with, always ready to help in sickness or death anything her hands could do and she never refused a favor in time of need. Several years ago she with her family moved to Des Moines and kept hotel a good many years. Last summer she had a very hard spell of sickness which seemed to break down her constitution, which held good so many years, and on May 9th she suffered a stoke of apoplexy and then, why does the myrtle and the holly veil themselves in mourning, and the eagle fold his plumes in grief? Because a loving wife is gone, a tender mother is no more at her place to great the dear ones as the come and go, a kind neighbor has gone to her reward. All that loving friends could do was done. In this vicinity she leaves four sisters and one brother, Mesdames John Gibson, D. Swarm, O. Ozmun, Geo. Randol and Mr. M. L. Hutson, and one brother, O. S. Hutson, in Des Moines. M. L. and Mrs. John Gibson and Mrs. Ozmun were in attendance at the last sad rites. The floral tributes and the vast amount of people showed the high esteem in which she was held in Des Moines. After devotions at the house she was taken to the Friends church of which she was a member, and the funeral sermon was preached by her pastor, Rev. Sweet, after which tender hands laid all that was mortal of Nancy Stockrider to rest in west Des Moines, till the last loud trumpet will wake her to a higher and nobler life. A Friend."