Amanda S. (Hewett) PAINE

HEWETT, PAINE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:56

Amanda S. Hewett Paine
10 March 1835 --- 5 December 1912

Early Settler Dies Suddenly

Mrs. N. B. Paine Discovered Dead in her Home at Nine o'clock a. m. Dec. 5th.

The entire city was shocked last Thursday morning to learn that Mother Paine had passed to the other world.

While the demise was sudden and naturally regretted by her children and friends they find comfort in the thought that it was without struggle and without lingering illness and suffering.

Her grandson, Harry Paine, who lived with her left the house in the morning with the thought he would let her sleep but on returning at nine o'clock, two hours later, and not seeing her around the house went to her room and found her spirit had left its earthly tenement.

Amanda S. Hewett was the daughter of Sumner B. and Mary E. Hewett and was born in So. Sutton, Mass., March 10th, 1835.

Her youth was spent in South Sutton and East Douglass, Mass. and at Woonsocket, R. I. graduating from the academy of that place at the age of seventeen.

She was married March 11, 1852 to Nathanial B. Paine, and shortly after they moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where her husband became a partner in the Holt Manufacturing Co.

In February 1855 she and her husband accompanied by her father, mother and brother Judge Hewett and his wife came to Iowa and settled on the banks of the Boone River about two miles northwest of the present city of Eagle Grove.

Indians were their first neighbors and the buffalo still roamed over the prairies in great herds. Her early life here had much to do with the settlement of Wright Co. and many were the tales of both pleasure, and privations she could tell of pioneer life In Iowa.

She was a young woman at the time of the massacre at Spirit Lake and Southern Minn., and during the Civil war her husband being recruiting officer for this part of the country. Mrs. Paine was often left alone with her babe to care for.

It is such conditions and surroundings that build and make the characters that were characteristic of our forefathers that the present generation know nothing of.

She will be missed by all who know her or were connected with her being one of the dear ones who have lived quietly and peacefully and went about doing good and not letting the right hand know what the left hand doeth, always having a kind word for all.

Suffering in the physical being was always dreaded by her and she has often remarked in her later years, that she hoped she would be spared that part at the end of her journey and who will not say that the merciful God did not hear and answer.

Her end came as peaceful as could be wished for and her spirit went to meet its Maker and her loved ones gone before. Her only daughter Mary E. died in 1889.

She leaves surviving her, four sons, David D., Frank L., Warren A. and John S. beside her grandson Harry W. who has always made his home with her and cared for her during her declining years.

She was laid to rest in Rose Hill cemetery, beside her husband who died in 1905.

Thus ended one of the best of women, a good mother and a kind friend and a helper to all who passed. She was beloved by all who knew her for her kindly spirit and life of neighborly helpfulness and generous charity.

The funeral was held at the Methodist church Friday afternoon Rev. Wilkinson preached the sermon and was assisted in the services by Rev. C. B. Winter.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, December 12, 1912
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source -- Paul Wilde