Wealthy (Lowell) Andrews McIntosh (1831-1908)

LOWELL, ANDREWS, MCINTOSH, BOOHER, KINNEY, NORTON, SPRAGUE, RICH

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 8/15/2011 at 20:41:28

From Nevada Representative January 22, 1908

Mrs. Wealthy Andrews-McIntosh.

Mrs. Wealthy McIntosh, best known in Nevada as Mrs. Wealthy Andrews, died Tuesday morning, January 21, 1908, at the home of her duaghter, Mrs. V. P. Booher, south of Nevada, aged 76 years, 6 months and 9 days, and her funeral will be attended at the Presbyterian church in Nevada at eleven a. m. Thursday. Mrs. McIntosh had bee in poor health for a year. She was taken ill while visiting her children in Nebraska, but was able to return, and has since received kindly care in the family of her son John in the north part of town, and that of Mrs. Booher with whom her life closed.

Wealthy Lowell was born July 12, 1831, in the town Stockton, Chautauqua county, New York. She removed to Ohio in 1834, and to the vicinity of Freeport, Illinois, in 1838, where she was married to Grant Andrews May 3, 1848. With her husband and shildren she came to Nevada in 1874, and here Mr. Andrews died a year later, leaving her with a family of eleven children, six of whom were too young for self support. The brave struggle which she made, and with success, to rear them and secure for them a home, won the admiration of all observers. In 1883 she was married to Mr. Richard McIntosh, and she was again widowed in 1891.

Of her six sons and five daughters, Sydney died in infancy; William, in his young manhood; and Mrs. Phoebe Kinney passed away from her home in Nevada about twenty-five years ago. Those who survive are Walter, who resides in Illinois; Anson in Colorado; Charles, Mrs. Lillie Norton, and Mrs. Emma Sprague in Nebraska; Mrs. Ida Rich in Oregon; and John and Mrs. Della Booher in Nevada. She leaves, also, thirty-one grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren.

Her thirty-four years of life in Nevada made friends of all who knew her, and many a one besides her posterity will beel in her decease a personal loss. In religious faith she was a Spiritualist, ever ready to give a reason for her confidence and hope, and glad at the last in the expectation of meeting the loved who had gone before.