LEWIS, Alnetta A. (1857-1947)

LEWIS

Posted By: Ann Jaber (email)
Date: 2/26/2006 at 03:22:30

FORMER TOLEDO WOMAN DIES AT ONTARIO, CALIF.

Word has been received from Ontario, California, of the death of Mrs. Alnetta A. Lewis on September 10th, at the age of 90 years.

Alnetta Amelia Hiatt, the second daughter of John Warner Hiatt and Martha Y. Hiatt, was born January 21, 1857 in Richland Township, near Helena, Tama County, Iowa. When she was a very small girl, her father enlisted in the Union Army, and died as a result of wounds received in the Battle of Champion Hills. She attended school at Helena, and later in Tama and Des Moines. She taught in rural schools of Tama and Marshall counties, and also at LeGrand and at Tama.

She was united in marriage with Jesse M. Lewis on June 3, 1891, and lived on a farm in Ida county, until the fall of 1893, when they moved to Tama county, and built the home in south Toledo, which is now occupied by the Raymond Gray family. In 1907 they moved to Ontario, California, where Mr. Lewis died on January 22, 1921.

From her girlhood, Mrs. Lewis had been interested in the church and Sunday school, and while living in Tama was a member of the Baptist church. At Toledo, her membership was in the Presbyterian church, and at the time of her death, she was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian church of Ontario for forty years. She was also active in the Woman’s Relief Corps, and Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Surviving her are her two children James W. Lewis of Ontario, with whom she made her home, and Mrs. Frances Harpel of Puente, California; also six step-children, Mrs. R. A. Fowler, Battle Creek, Iowa; Mrs. Jessie Davis, Rodney, Iowa; D. A. Lewis, Washougal, Washington; Mrs. J. E. Elston and Mrs. E. K. Townsend, Toledo, Iowa, and E. E. Lewis, Chino, California; a half-brother, C. C. Price of Portland, Oregon; 35 grandchildren, and 47 great grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Saturday, September 13, at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Ontario, with the Rev Eugene Barnard officiating. Interment was in Bellevue cemetery.

(From Fannie Razey Gray’s Scrapbook)