Rachel Stuart Brown 1811-1900

STUART, STEWART, BROWN, MOORE, SINTON, HORNBY, WOOD, EASTER

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 5/27/2004 at 16:19:05

Mrs. Rachel Brown, of Bentonsport, Iowa, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George L. Moore, at half past one, Tuesday afternoon, April 24, 1900, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. Rachel Stuart was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1811, and was united in marriage to James A. Brown, March, 1833. They were among the earliest settlers of Van Buren county, coming to Iowa in 1840, settling on Bear Creek, near Vernon. Later they moved to Bentonsport, which remained their home during the lifetime of each, where was reared a large family of nine children. Upon her own generation, Mrs. Brown left a lasting impression and in her days of active usefulness she was a factor of strength in church work and religious activities, being one of the first of the little band of eleven members to help organize the Bentonsport Presbyterian church, which was built in 1856. Added to the charm of personal lovliness [sic], was the great gift of a strong character and gentle manners. No one can measure the power of her well spent life whose influence, like the ripples of the ocean, stretches and widens on out into infinity. For thirty years her home has been with her daughter Mrs. George L. Moore, who lives at the old family homestead. But her later life was saddened by the death of three daughters, Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Sinton, of Keokuk, and Mrs. Hornby, of Logan, Iowa. Of the ones [sic] larges family there still survive, O.B. Brown of Washington, D.C.; Calvin, of Toledo, Ohio; Clement, of Nebraska; Allison Brown, of Council Bluffs; Noah G. Brown and Mrs. Moore, of Bentonsport. Grandma Brown’s most intimate friend and companion was her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary S. Wood, of Albia, who is in her 90th year, but accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Easter, was present at the funeral. Services were held Thursday afternoon, April 26, and were conducted by Rev. C.S. McElhinney, of Fairfield.

Source: Newspaper Unknown. Obit Book C; p. 5; Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA