Jessie (Flatman) WARNES

FLATMAN, WARNES, ARCHERD, BRADEN, BEAN, MIDDLETON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:02

Jessie Flatman Warnes
22 March 1864 ---- 19 July 1959

Jessie Flatman, daughter of Thomas Henry and Mary Ann Flatman, was born on March 22, 1864 in Downham Market, Norfolk, England. She was the sixth in a family of seven children and was the last survivor of that family. Jessie joined the church as a young woman and has been a faithful member for more than eighty years. She was connected with a school for small boys for a time, and then as her mother's health was failing, she came back to look after the home and care for her mother.

Her older sister, Elizabeth, had married W. E. Warnes and later that couple had gone to Iowa U.S.A. to live. Six years later word came that Elizabeth had died leaving her husband with four small girls to take care of. Jessie continued to care for her mother until the latter's death, several months later, and then got ready to come to the United States. She left her home in England just after her twenty-eighth birthday and reached Chicago the first of April 1892. Mr. Warnes met her there and they were married that afternoon by a Congregational minister and then came home to Eagle Grove where a ready-made family awaited her.

Three years later a son, William H., was born to Mr. and Mrs. Warnes. The family lived in Eagle Grove nearly all of Mrs. Warnes' married life of more than sixty years except for a short time in Escanaba, Michigan, and Belle Plaine, Iowa, and the nearly seven years at Friendship Haven, Fort dodge. While living in Eagle Grove, Mrs. Warnes became a member of the Methodist church, Order of the Eastern Star, and the P.E.O. Sisterhood which memberships continued throughout her life. Mrs. Warnes made two trips back to her old home in England. She enjoyed travel and saw much of the United States, both east and west. With her husband she spent many winters in Riverside, California.

By 1952 keeping the home going had become too much for her failing strength so that fall Mr. and Mrs. Warnes took up residence in Friendship Haven where for nearly seven years they have enjoyed the friends and the advantages of that outstanding Methodist home. February 12th of this year, Mrs. Warnes became ill and was taken to the infirmary where the doctors and nurses did everything possible for her. Her stay there ended at 11:40 Saturday night, the 18th of July, when she passed away very quietly. Her relatives and friends will miss her very much.

She leaves her husband, William E. Warnes of Friendship Haven, a son, William H. Warnes of Riverside, California, and four daughters, Lucy, Mrs. Leslie Archerd of Clarion; Jessie, Mrs. Herbert Braden of Sturgis, South Dakota; Irene, Mrs. Arthur Bean and Hettie, Mrs. Guy Middleton, both of Eagle Grove; and sixteen grandchildren, forty-one great grandchildren, and nine great great grandchildren, all of whom but the very smallest will remember Grandma Warnes lovely smile she had for them and the nice things she did for them.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, July 23, 1959

Source --- Paul Wilde

[Rose Hill Cemetery in Eagle Grove, Iowa]