Siri "Sarah" (Burem) Watney (1823-1916)

BUREM, WATNEY, TWEDT, THOMPSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/7/2022 at 18:38:52

From Nevada Respresentative January 28, 1916 (page 1)

TWO ROLAND PIONEERS

John Danielson and Mrs. Siri Watney

Roland has lost during the week two of its oldest and best esteemed pioneers John Danielson died there on Sunday and Mrs. Siri Watney on Tuesday. His age was not quite 82, and hers was a little short of 93. Both were natives of Norway and each came to this country in an early day. Both knew the privations of pioneering, and each seems to have enjoyed the fruits of successful industry. His funeral was conducted from Bergens church and hers from Salems church, and for each there was all the honor due to one who has lived a long, worthy and useful life.

Mrs. Watney was born in Bjorhavn, Norway, April 18, 1823. She emigrated as a young woman in the old sailing days, landed at Quebec and came west as far as Wisconsin. We infer that she was there married and soon after she accompanied her husband to Chicago, where the whole family expecting herself were swept away by the cholera scourge. Her second marriage was to Eilert Watney at Chicago in 1850. They lived for fifteen years in northern Illinois and then came to Story county and settled on a farm two miles from Roland, with which locality they continued to be identified until his death in 1896 and now hers in 1916. She was the oldest resident in Roland. She is survived by one son, Chas. Watney and three daughters Mrs. Christine Twedt, Mrs. Henry Thompson and Miss Sophia Watney, as well as by many grand children and great-grandchildren.