Sarah (Houge) Hendrickson (1852-1933)

HOUGE, HENDRICKSON, STOCKDALE, BATES, ERSLAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/5/2023 at 09:25:34

From The Slater News February 22, 1933 (page 2)

Obituary of Mrs. Hendrickson

Mrs. Sarah Hendrickson was born in Norway, Europe, in 1851 her parents being Eargen and Ragna Houge.* While Sarah was still a small child the family immigrated to America, their destination being Lisbon, Illinois. While making that community their home, death claimed the mother. When the first immigrants left that community to establish homes near Cambridge, Iowa, in the spring of 1855, Mr. Houge and the children joined the caravan of prairie schooners, making them members of the original colony that settled near what is now the Palestine church.

After the family had got nicely settled in their new home in a strange country, the father was called by death. After the death of her father Sarah went to Des Moines to make her home with one Dr. Whitter. There she attended school on capitol hill, in a school house which is still standing. She grew to womanhood in the city.

Her marriage to H. O. Hendrickson took place on Christmas eve, 1871. Mr. Hendrickson was a "boy in blue", he having served over three years in the Civil war with a Wisconsin regiment. After a residence in Des Moines they moved to Sheldahl where they lived for a long time and where Mr. Hendrickson took an active interest in the general affairs of the community and where they made many friends.

In 1919 the family moved to Wyoming where they homesteaded 320 acres of land. After a lapse of ten years they moved back to Iowa and took up their residence at Ames, there to spend the sunset days of their lives.

Beside her husband, Mrs. Hendrickson leaves two daughters and two sons. They are Mrs. Louis Stockdale of Eagle Grove and Mrs. W. S. Bates of Ames; George C. of LaGrange, Wyoming and Milford L., who is a patient in the U. S. Veteran hospital at Knoxville, Ia. She also left a brother, Severt G. Houge, of Sioux Falls, So. Dak., and left 11 grandchildren and two greatgrand sons.

Mrs. Hendrickson was an unusual woman in so many ways, dearly beloved by a large circle of friends, friends who visited her often and left with her sweet remembrances in the form of fragrant flowers--214 bouquets during her extended illness. She had a lovely christian disposition with smiles and kind words for everybody.

SUBMITTER'S NOTE: Other sources name her parents as Orjan Sjursson Houge and Gyri Hansdotter Ersland.