BOON, Mrs. Hepzibah

BOON, GOULD, LINDSAY, BAIRD, GRAHAM, CUNNINGHAM, WILSON

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Date: 4/15/2016 at 19:13:30

Death of Mrs. Samuel Boon

Hepzibah Gould was born near Columbus, Ohio, January 8, 1836, and died in Birmingham, Iowa at 11 o'clock p.m. May 24, 1915. She came to Iowa with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gould, in 1846, who settled on a farm two miles south of Birmingham, where she grew to young womanhood and was married, when she moved to a farm adjoining Birmingham on the east. Her whole life has been spent in that community and she was one of the pioneers of the county. She was the third child in a family of five, two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Lindsay and Mrs. Margaret Baird, having passed over the river of death before her. Her brother, E.S. Gould, and sister, Mrs. Mary Graham, survive her. She received her education in Birmingham except two years in college at Washington, Iowa. She was endowed with a high order of intelligence and a splendid memory. She began teaching at an early age and at that time was considered one of the best teachers in Van Buren county, one of her first terms being in the spring of 1856 at Utica, in which J.W. Rowley, the senior editor of the Keosauqua REPUBLICAN, was a little boy pupil. She was married to Samuel Boon May 4, 1858, who died August 31, 1899. To this union were born four children: Anna M., Margaret Helen, William Ross and Ada Isabelle, all of who survive her except Helen, wife of Warren Cunningham, who died February 25, 1895. She was a true and faithful wife and a loving mother, not only to her own children but also to the three children of her husband by a former marriage, who are, Robert, Agnes and Edith; also her daughter Helen's child, Bazel Boon Cunningham, who was committed to her are at her mother's death. All of these survive except Mrs. Agnes Wilson, who died at her home in Ohio, January 10, 1892. She was a faithful member of the United Presbyterian church from her early life. Hers was a life of Sweet contentment, growing out of the happiness she derived from doing for others and making other hearts rejoice, always doing kindly deeds whenever they were needed. A remarkable coincidence of this family is that all of her sisters, and her brother have spent their whole lives or nearly so at Birmingham and immediate vicinity. Funeral services in charge of Rev. Mr. Bock, were held at the Home, May 26, burial being in Birmingham cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book F, Page 276, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA