Joanna (Utterback) Elwood (1848-1934)

UTTERBACK, ELWOOD, SELLERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/18/2021 at 20:13:40

From Nevada Evening Journal August 3, 1934 (page 1)

Pioneer Woman Is Dead at Colo

JOANNE ELWOOD HAD LIVED IN COUNTY FOR OVER 80 YEARS

Special to the Journal.
Colo, Aug. 3--When Joanne Utterback came to Story county as child of four years in 1852, the total population of Story county was at 46. As Joanne Elwood she died at her home in Colo late Thursday afternoon at the age of 86, following a stroke of apoplexy suffered on June 4.

Funeral services will be held from the Methodist Episcopal church in Colo Sunday afternoon at 2:00, after which interment will be in the family lot in the Colo cemetery.

She was born at Shelbyville, Illinois, August 16, 1848 and came to Story county with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Utterback in 1852 and her home had since been in Story county.

Probably being Story county's oldest citizen in years of residence, as well as one of the oldest in years, she had watched the county, state and nation grow and had welcomed and accepted the many changes in life and living.

She was a woman of exceptionally fine character, devoted to her family and home and hers was a life to be envied in many ways.

She leaves a son Guy Elwood at Minneapolis, a daughter Rose Sellers of Ames, a son Sam Elwood at home, as well as 3 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

A son Charles and daughter Lilly preceded her in death, as did one grandson Sammy, who was raised in her home and died in 1918.