HUSTON, Mrs. Deborah: Died 1909

WOLLAM, HUSTON

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Date: 6/17/2013 at 10:00:51

MRS. DEBORAH HUSTON.

Mrs. Deborah Wollam Huston, aged 82 years, 9 months and 13 days, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. J.O. Boyer, south of Leando, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1909. Mrs. Huston was a native of Ohio but came to Iowa in 1864 living on a farm near Mt. Sterling for many years. She lost her husband 16 years ago; also two sons, one in infancy, the other by accident. Four sons, and the daughter who permitted to care for her mother during her last illness, are left to mourn their loss. She also leaves 15 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. She was buried in the Harness cemetery near her old home, Saturday the 23. The autumn days seem a fitting time for the aged to be called to rest, as the summer days are faded and gone, and the reapers have gathered in the sheaves of the harvest. So the Reaper Death gathers in the ripest and richest sheaves to be counted in the har-
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Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 117, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA