Allison, Melinda (Baker) 1811 – 1899

ALLISON, BAKER, RICKET, KIDDER, MOSHER, BENJAMIN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:47

Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 12, 1899 P 2 C 1

An Octogenarian Gone.
From the infirmities of old age and weeks of intense suffering, Mrs. Melinda Allison passed away very suddenly at noon of last Saturday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. V. Kidder.
Miss Melinda Baker was born in Wayne, Stuben Co., N. Y., July 28th, 1811. Her life lacked little more than a single decade of spanning the century. During this period wonderful and stupendous changes have occurred to mark the growth of our country in both political and domestic life. Widely separating woman’s work in the extremes of this extreme century, but all these changes have occurred so gradually that unless one stopped to reflect and compare the present with the past most of these wonderful improvements might escape the notice. Still it is cause for profound gratitude to be permitted to live in such a time as this.
She was married to Joseph Armstrong Allison in 1830, and they continued to live in the Empire state until the fall of 1865, when they came west and in 1868 settled in Wisconsin, where they remained 19 years.
From there they went to Lyons, Kas., where her husband died n 1889. She came to Decorah in 1893, at which place she remained with her youngest daughter until the time of her death. She was the mother of seven children. Of this number only three survive, Mrs. Mary E. Ricket, of Hemingford, Neb., Vanrenselaer Allison, Dry Wood, Wis., and Mrs. Sophia Kidder, of West Decorah. These sisters had the precious privilege of ministering to their aged mother at the close of her long life. Those of the children that are dead are William Allison, who fell in defense of his country in the late civil war; Mrs. Lucy A. Mosher, died at Prairie du Chien, Wis.; Mrs. Emily Benjamin, died at Lyons, Kansas; and Charles Allison, died at Excelsior, Wis.
The funeral was at the house on Sunday afternoon and was conducted by Rev. Allen, pastor of the Baptist church assisted by Rev. Anderson. The pastor spoke briefly from 2d Corinthians 5 1-3; then after the friends had taken a last look at the kindly face the burial took place in the Phelps’ cemetery.

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