Myrtle Anna Price 1890-1965

HODSON, MANNING, SPEAR, SEAGER

Posted By: Kara Seager-Segalla (email)
Date: 3/14/2005 at 15:05:53

Myrtle Anna Price was born on June 26, 1890 in the little town of Eldon, Wapello, Iowa, a few miles east of Ottumwa. Myrtle's middle name was from her grandmother, Sophia Anna McGlashen. Her parent's were David Nelson Price and Maymie Sophia Elmore, who were both born in Keokuk, Lee, Iowa. Her father was a baker and had his own cafe in Eldon. All of the family helped work in the store. Myrtle was reared and educated in Eldon, and graduated from the Eldon high school. On Oct. 3, 1910 in Duluth, Minnesota, she married Jesse Lynn Hodson, who she had met in Eldon. Myrtle and Lynn's first child, Madelyn Lucille Hodson (Manning), was born in 1911 in the north woods country of Deerwood, where Lynn was working in the lumber business. Apparently when their second baby was due, they decided life was too difficult for them in this forested area. Also Lynn's father, Reuben, was in failing health and wanted them to return to Iowa, where he was living. In 1913, Myrtle and her family went back to Iowa in Eldon, where they farmed four years near Fairfield, but made their final home on Lynn's great grandfather's farm, Vincent Vass, north of Eldon. Here they had another four children, Helen Marjorie Hodson (Spear), Dorothy Mae Hodson (Seager), Robert Lynn Hodson, and Harold Price Hodson. Myrtle was a member of the Eldon Methodist Church and the Eldon Chapter of PEO. She was known as a loving grandmother and mother, and even though she was raised a city girl, she became a good farmer's wife. She died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 74 at her home on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 1965. She was preceded in death by her son, Major Robert Hodson, who died serving his country in WWII in Germany. Her husband lived an additional eleven years and died in 1976. Sources: From Myrtle and Lynn and their children.