Frances (Lyons) Lockwood (ca. 1838-1910)

LYONS, LOCKWOOD, PRICE, BOYNTON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/9/2017 at 20:57:04

From Nevada Representative July 12, 1910 (front page)

OBITUARY

Death of Mrs. George Lockwood

Mrs. Frances Lyons Lockwood, widow of the late George Lockwood and in former years for a long time a resident of Nevada, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Della, Mrs. George Price, at Bonner Springs, near Kansas City, Missouri. She was aged 71 or 72 years and is remembered by all her old acquaintances here as a woman of very marked worth. She was a native of London, England, came to this country when nine years old with her parents, the family home being in Indiana. She was married there or in Michigan when quite young to George Lockwood, and they soon after the war came to Iowa, making their home first in Marshalltown. In the early 70's they came to Nevada, where he was employed in the foundry. They lived here for about a dozen years, during which time a large family of children were growing up and she was exceedingly busy with household duties; but she impressed herself strongly on those who knew her. The family moved in 1885 from here to Bedford, Iowa, where Mr. Lockwood died in the following year. She had therefore been a widow for nearly a quarter of a century, and her later years have been spent very comfortably with her daughter, Mrs. Price a Bonner Springs. She was the mother of eleven children, of whom seven survive but only one, Ida, Mrs. Will H. Boynton, remains in Nevada. She it was who received the telegram Monday evening telling of her mother's death, and she left this morning for Bonner Springs. The surviving children are Nelson, who is manger of a beet-sugar ranche in Colorado; Frank, who is farming near Bonner Springs; Ida, Mrs. Boynton of Nevada; Della, Mrs. Geo. Price of Bonner Springs; Charles, who has a printing office in Des Moines; Fred, who is in California; and Jessie, who lived in Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Lockwood was an elder half-brother of E. W. Lockwood, who ran the mill and elevator for many years in Nevada, and aside from the family of Mrs. Boynton, the Lant Lockwood family are the nearest relatives of Mrs. Frances Lockwood now remaining in Nevada.