Iowa
Old Press
Mason City Daily Globe
Mason City, Cerro Gordo co. Iowa
August 27, 1900
OBITUARY
Mrs. H. A. Gillett, residing on north Michigan Ave., died
Saturday evening about 6 o'clock. About nine years ago she was
afflicted with paralysis. Since which time she has hardly seen a
well day. For the past 11 months, she has been confined to her
bed. For weeks her death has been expected. The doctors did all
in their power to arrest the disease but nothing could be done
for her and she patiently bore her sufferings abiding the time
when she would be called to the world where suffering, sickness
and death are not known. She was a Christian woman exemplifying
it in her own home and with whom she came in contact.
Mrs. Jennie Rowe Gillett was born in Swaledale, Yorkshire,
England, Nov. 18, 1848. When she was but six weeks old, she
accompanied her parents to the United States. They settled in New
Diggings, Wisconsin. From there they moved to Shullsburg and then
to Darlington. At Benton township she was married to Henry A.
Gillett on March 25, 1868.
In the spring of 1870, they moved to Cerro Gordo county, Iowa,
settling on the farm three miles south of this city where they
resided until the spring of 1899 when they moved to their
Michigan avenue home.
When the deceased was eleven years of age, she united with the
Primitive Methodist church and in 1877 joined the Congregational
church of this city. The funeral of the deceased was held this
afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Congregational church, and in the
absence of her pastor, Rev. Rogers, Rev. Clinton conducted the
service.
[Transcriber note: Jennie died August 25, 1900, in Mason City, Iowa, at fifty-one years of age. - transcribed by L.Z., March 2007]