Brainerd, Mrs. N.H. (Elizabeth)

BRAINERD, PARKER, LADD

Posted By: Pat Hemphill (email)
Date: 11/30/2008 at 17:29:09

DEATH SUMMONS
PIONEER WOMAN

Mrs. N.H. Brainerd died in her home north of Moville Sunday. She had been ill for six weeks and on Wednesday suffered a stroke of paralysis.

Elizabeth M. Ladd was born near Canton, Vermont, March 4, 1856, and died at Moville, Iowa, March 13, 1932, aged 76 years, 9 days. When she was three years old her parents moved by ox team to Marshall, Mich., and lived in a log cabin in the forest. In 1868 the family left Michigan for Iowa and after spending the winter at Grant City, they moved onto a homestead in Banner township, Woodbury county.

In 1874, Miss Ladd and John Lindsay Parker were united in marriage. Five children were born to them, one of whom survives. Mr. Parker died from exposure during a blizzard while returning to his home from Sioux City in the winter of 1886.

On June 28, 1887, Mrs. Parker and N.H. Brainerd were married. Three children were born to this union, two of whom survive.

When a girl, Mrs. Brainerd united with the Baptist church. Later she transferred her membership to the Presbyterian church at Lawton. In recent years, she was a member of the United Brethren church at Moville.

Surviving are the widower; two daughters, Mrs. Mae Parker Hemphill of Merrill, Iowa, and Mrs. Ivy Baker; a son, Walter R. Brainerd; twenty-five grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. S. M. Zike in the U.B. Church Tuesday afternoon. Burial was in Arlington Cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers were James Howard, J.E. Noffsinger, F.D. Stevens, Fred Speakman, all of Lawton, and George Rockefeller and F.W. Johnson, both of Moville.

Active pallbearers were J.C. Larkin, Chauncey McNaughton, Marshall O’Leary, Irven Barto, Harry Scholl and Ed Hill.

~Source: Sioux City newspaper, March 1932