Rebecca (Hale) Amend 1838-1921

HALE, AMEND, ROBY

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 5/16/2004 at 00:32:18

MRS. REBECCA AMEND

Rebecca Hale, daughter of John and [Ed]ith Hale, was born in Rush County, Indiana, May 4th, 1838, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Roby, March 1st, 1921, aged [82] years, 9 months and 27 days. When she was two years of age, she came to Iowa with her parents locating on a farm near Milton. On May 27th, 1855, She [sic] was married to H. B. Amend. To this union nine children were born, four of whom died in infancy. A son, B. F., an engineer, was killed in a railway accident on December 12th, 1917. The living are three sons, E. G. of Fort Smith, Arkansas; J. W. of Lewis, Kansas; S. A. of Stafford, Kansas, who were present at the funeral, and one daughter, Mrs. W. H. Roby, of Milton, with whom she had made her home for the past twenty-eight years.

(Photocopy of this obit found on page 227 of Obit Book "A" of the Van Buren County, Iowa, Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library as of May 2001. Name and date of newspaper not given.)

I am NOT related and am posting this obit for those who may find this person in their family history.

(Originally posted 9 May 2001)