Mary Ann (Strain) ZOOK

ZOOK, STRAIN, WARD, CARPENTER, SIFERT, ROWAN, JONES, GLIDDEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/28/2006 at 15:05:54

SHEFFIELD PRESS [IA]
March 1, 1923

MARY ANN ZOOK - Passed Away Friday at the Home of Her Daughter, Mrs. Mata Ward

Mary Ann Strain was born at Malone, New York, Dec. 7 1838. She was married to Abraham Zook Jan. 10, 1859, and they lived together till July 17, 1904, when God called him. They moved to Iowa in 1868, and lived in Hampton, Latimer, Burchinal and Sheffield. Three sons and three daughters came to bless their home, and five are living: Cassius James, Lemon, South Dakota; Elizabeth Carpenter, Webster, South Dakota; John, Clear Lake, Iowa; Will, Austin, Minnesota; Mata Ward, Sheffield, Iowa. Martha, Mrs. Sifert, died Jan. 8, 1913. An adopted daughter, Irma Rowan, lives at Upton, Wyoming. Mrs. Zook is survived also by twenty grandchildren, six step grandchildren, twenty-nine great-grandchildren and two adopted great-grandchildren. A brother, John Strain, lives in Ventura, Iowa, in his 97th year. Two sisters are also living: Mrs. Abbie Jones, Sheffield, Iowa and Mrs. Helen Glidden, Buckus, Minnesota. For the past twelve years Mrs. Zook has lived with her daughter, Mrs. Mata Ward, on the farm near Sheffield, and in the village. Her religious life began in childhood, when she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. For over 70 years she has been an earnest and faithful member. July 22 1917, she transferred her membership from Burchinal to Sheffield. She believed in and practiced the old time religion. She just returned from a visit to Minnesota a week ago. She caught cold, which developed quickly into pneumonia, and at 3 a.m., Friday, Feb. 23, she passed away, aged 84 years, 2 months and 16 days. Shortly before death she repeated and partly sang: "Those absent ones I long to see, Tell them to live near Christ for me". The funeral services were held in the Methodist Church Sunday, at 1:30 p.m., in charge of the pastor, Rev. G. D. Cleworth, and the body was laid to rest beside husband and daughter, at Mt. Vernon Cemetery, four miles north of Swaledale. Her six grandsons acted as pallbearers.

Source: Laura Pruden