Annie Veiner (Erickson) Twedt (1846-1923)

TWEDT, ERICKSON, SAMPSON, PETERSON, GROVE, RUTHERFORD, HIGHLAND, CHRISTIAN

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/22/2024 at 20:34:53

From the Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, August 16, 1923.

PIONEER WOMAN PASSED AWAY

Mrs. John Twedt Died at Home in Roland Saturday. Was Pioneer Resident of This Community.

Another of the pioneer residents of Roland has answered the summons and passed to the great beyond, Mrs. John Twedt passing away at her home here last Saturday evening, a resident of this community for 67 years. Three years ago she suffered a stroke of paralysis and has been in feeble health since, suffering from relapses at different times. She has been bedfast since last October with the exception of sitting in a wheel chair occasionally, when she was in better health. She passed away last Saturday evening quietly at her home at about 7 o'clock, after a time of intense suffering from her afflictions.

Mrs. John Twedt was born October 6, 1846, in Stavanger, Norway; her parents were Jacob and Ellen Erickson. In 1849 she came across the Atlantic with her parents, being at the age of two and one half years when she came to this country. They settled on a farm near Lisbon, Ill., and lived there for seven years.

In the year 1856 they went in company with a number of others and drove overland to Iowa and sought homes on the undulating prairies hitherto unknown. There were forty wagons in the company, all teams being oxen with the exception of two teams of horses, and in the journey were made to suffer all sorts of hardships, the means of travel being very inconvenient in those days. After several weeks of slow travel and worry and hardship they came to this community and the Erickson family bought the land from the Government. The land they bought is the site upon which now the greater part of Roland is built. Their log home was built on the same lot on which the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Twedt now stands, or to be exact, about the place where the telephone office is located at the northwest corner of the building.

She was united in marriage to John Twedt, December 17, 1868, at the St. Petri church at Story City, the ceremony read by Rev. Amlund. The couple settled on a farm three miles south of Roland and which is still known as the Twedt homestead, and there they lived until the year 1909, when they moved into Roland, where they had built themselves a new home in which to spend the remainder of their years on this earth.

Besides her husband, she leaves to mourn her death eight children, the first born, Jacob, having died in infancy. Those living are: Joseph, Jacob, Mrs. T. I. Sampson, Mrs. P. J. Peterson, Mrs. E. R. Grove, Mrs. J. A. Rutherford and Mrs. E. O. Highland all of this place and Albert of Hector, Minn. She also has but one sister, Mrs. Ellen Christian of this place. She passed away to the Great Beyond Saturday, Aug. 11, 1928, at the ripe old age of 76 years, 10 months and 7 days. She was a member of the Bergen Lutheran Church ever since its organization and was a faithful member of the Ladies Aid and a regular attendant at services and loved her church.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday from Bergen church after a short service at the home, Rev. M. O. Sumstad giving the sermon from the Book of St. John the 14th chapter, verses 1, 2 and 3, and from this spoke comforting words to the bereaved.

[Poster note: Given names taken from grave marker. Also surname Rutherfor corrected to Rutherford.]