WILLIAMSON, Nancy E. (1835-1920)

WILLIAMSON

Posted By: Karon King (email)
Date: 5/5/2017 at 22:04:53

Nancy Ellen Williamson
(Feb 19, 1835 - Oct 19, 1920)

Advocate-Tribune, Indianola, IA, Thurs., Oct 28, 1920, p.7
Obituary – Mrs. Nancy Ellen Williamson
Nancy Ellen Noble was born February 19, 1835 in Rush county, Indiana, and in her early childhood she moved to Madison county, Indiana where she grew to womanhood. In 1852 she married John L. Williamson and with him came to Madison County, Iowa in 1856, and there lived upon the farm from which the site of Bevington was taken. After her husband’s death she moved to the home near Conger, in Warren County and laid out the town site of Conger, and here was her home till her death, October 19, 1920, aged eighty five years and eight months. She was a mother of six children, two of them dying in their infancy, and there survive her Mrs. Henry King, of Sac City, Iowa, and three sons, E.C. and E. E. Williamson, of Des Moines, and J. F. Williamson, of Dickinson, North Dakota; also eight grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. When twelve years old she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and remaining loyal to her faith till her death. This intense love for her church was shown in her gift of a lot and a large share of the money needed for the building of a church building at Bevington and when after a few years the Methodist class was discontinued and an attempt to remove the building was made, she went into the court and obtained a decree perpetually enjoining its removal. Her experience and toil for her home and her two little children, during the absence of her husband for three years as a soldier in the civil war gave her an intense loyalty and love for her country and its flag, and by her request these will be evidenced by the beautiful flag she had cherished for years, being placed on her grave, not to be taken down, as she said, “till the last thread was gone.” The last few months of her life was spent at the home of her daughter, Mrs. King, in Sac City, where she died. The body was brought to Wick, Iowa, and after a funeral service at the church, conducted by Rev. S. W. Lee, the interment was in the family lot in the nearby cemetery.