Jennie (Anderson) MELROSE MORSE

MORSE, ANDERSON, MELROSE, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/18/2007 at 13:36:53

Eagle Grove Eagle, November 1919

3 APR 1851 -- 4 NOV 1919

Mrs. Jennie Morse, nee Miss Jennie Anderson, was born in Christiana, Norway, April 3, 1851. When sixteen years of age she came to America and settled near McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa. Six years later she came to Wright County, Iowa, and located at Goldfield. On January 7, 1874, she was married to John Melrose. To this union four children were born: two sons and two daughters. One son and one daughter preceded their mother to the other world. Mr. Melrose died in April 1884. After living twenty-three years at Goldfield, Mrs. Melrose moved to Eagle Grove where she spent twenty-three years more of her life. A second marriage occurred April 26, 1893, when Mrs. Melrose was united in the bonds of matrimony to E.A. Morse. In early life Mrs. Melrose was confirmed in the Lutheran church. While living at Goldfield she united with the Methodist church of which she was a member at the time of her death which occurred very suddenly Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 4, 1919.

Those who remain to mourn her death are her husband, E.A. Morse, of Ealge Grove; a daughter, Mrs. May Williams, of Denver, CO; a son, Charles S. Melrose, of Jasper, MN., and a brother, Oliver Anderson, of Hardy, Iowa. Funeral services were held in the Methodist church of Eagle Grove last Friday afternoon conducted by the pastor, Rev. Chas. H. Seward. Internment was at Goldfield.