George Hyden (1828-1911)

HYDEN, POOL, APPLE, HILBURN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/13/2023 at 12:44:37

From Nevada Representative February 24, 1911 (page 1)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF GEORGE HYDEN

George Hyden, one of the earliest settlers, most successful farmers and worthiest citizens of Richland township, died at his home near Fernald Thursday morning about six o'clock. He had been suffering somewhat from the grippe, but not seriously, and he came down stairs in the morning; but not feeling well, he lay down on a sofa and there died in a very short time.

Mr. Hyden was born in the parish of Choreley, near Litchfield, Staffordshire, England on May 12, 1828, and died as stated at Fernald, near Nevada, Iowa, February 23, 1911, aged 82 years, 9 months and 11 days. He was reared in his native village, or on the native estate; but when he was in his twenties he became anxious for a better chance than he could see about home, and not being able to get any of fellows to go with him, he started out alone for America. Arriving in this country on a sailing vessel after a long voyage, he accompanied a ship-board acquaintance to Dunkirk, New York, and there found employment on a dairy farm. A little later William Handsaker, from his old neighborhood in England--but not a previous acquaintance--came along and the two joined their forces and started for Iowa. They arrived here on April 7, 1855, and soon located small tracts of land in Richland township near Johnson's Grove. In time they both married, established themselves permanently on neighboring farms, which they enlarged and improved as the years went by, and became conspicuously representative citizens of what they first found to be a new county and very slightly settled township.

Mr. Hyden married Louisa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Presley Pool, and they had seven children, of whom only two survive. Mrs. Hyden died about twenty years ago, and the surviving daughters are Mrs. Clark Apple and Mrs. Carl Hilburn, with the latter of whom and her husband he lived on the old farm.

The funeral will be conducted Saturday at eleven o'clock from the church in Fernald by Rev. A. M. Elliot.