'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 13, p 415, Mar. 28, 1932.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 24, p 767, June 13, 1932.
Hannah Abbie Babcock, daughter of George A. and Abbie Brown Babcock, was born in Hopkinton, R. I., January 25, 1843. Her mother was a descendant of Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower, and her father descended from James Babcock, the first white child born in Westerly, R. I.
She was married to Russel Maxson, April 5, 1864. After living a short time in Chenango Co., they homesteaded in Freeborn County, Minn. Three years later she went back East for a year to regain her health. In 1869 they sold their Minnesota homestead and came to Kansas, living in Emporia, then in Cowley County. Driven out by ague, they came to Jefferson County, buying land three miles west of Nortonville in 1874. She was left a widow on April 7, 1886, with six children, three having died in infancy. Mr. Maxson and Ina, sixteen, and Clyde, thirteen, succumbed to diphtheria. Some years later Ruth Babcock was taken into the home. She with two more of Mrs. Maxson's children, have since died.
After thirty years on the farm west of town she moved to Nortonville, where she has lived since with the exception of three years in Wisconsin and a little over a year in Battle Creek, Mich.
Early in life she was baptized in the pool behind the Ashaway Seventh Day Baptist Church, and she has been loyal to her church and an earnest, trustful Christian all her life, quick to grasp any opportunity to help others, whether friends or strangers. She was cheerful and uncomplaining and her presence has been like sunshine.
Farewell services were held from the Seventh Day Baptist Church March 5, 1932. She was laid by the side of her husband in the Nortonville Cemetery.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 24, p 767, June 13, 1932.
Hannah Abbie Babcock, daughter of George A. and Abbie Brown Babcock, was born in Hopkinton, R. I., January 25, 1843. Her mother was a descendant of Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower, and her father descended from James Babcock, the first white child born in Westerly, R. I.
She was married to Russel Maxson, April 5, 1864. After living a short time in Chenango Co., they homesteaded in Freeborn County, Minn. Three years later she went back East for a year to regain her health. In 1869 they sold their Minnesota homestead and came to Kansas, living in Emporia, then in Cowley County. Driven out by ague, they came to Jefferson County, buying land three miles west of Nortonville in 1874. She was left a widow on April 7, 1886, with six children, three having died in infancy. Mr. Maxson and Ina, sixteen, and Clyde, thirteen, succumbed to diphtheria. Some years later Ruth Babcock was taken into the home. She with two more of Mrs. Maxson's children, have since died.
After thirty years on the farm west of town she moved to Nortonville, where she has lived since with the exception of three years in Wisconsin and a little over a year in Battle Creek, Mich.
Early in life she was baptized in the pool behind the Ashaway Seventh Day Baptist Church, and she has been loyal to her church and an earnest, trustful Christian all her life, quick to grasp any opportunity to help others, whether friends or strangers. She was cheerful and uncomplaining and her presence has been like sunshine.
Farewell services were held from the Seventh Day Baptist Church March 5, 1932. She was laid by the side of her husband in the Nortonville Cemetery.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 13, p 415, Mar. 28, 1932.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 24, p 767, June 13, 1932.
Hannah Abbie Babcock, daughter of George A. and Abbie Brown Babcock, was born in Hopkinton, R. I., January 25, 1843. Her mother was a descendant of Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower, and her father descended from James Babcock, the first white child born in Westerly, R. I.
She was married to Russel Maxson, April 5, 1864. After living a short time in Chenango Co., they homesteaded in Freeborn County, Minn. Three years later she went back East for a year to regain her health. In 1869 they sold their Minnesota homestead and came to Kansas, living in Emporia, then in Cowley County. Driven out by ague, they came to Jefferson County, buying land three miles west of Nortonville in 1874. She was left a widow on April 7, 1886, with six children, three having died in infancy. Mr. Maxson and Ina, sixteen, and Clyde, thirteen, succumbed to diphtheria. Some years later Ruth Babcock was taken into the home. She with two more of Mrs. Maxson's children, have since died.
After thirty years on the farm west of town she moved to Nortonville, where she has lived since with the exception of three years in Wisconsin and a little over a year in Battle Creek, Mich.
Early in life she was baptized in the pool behind the Ashaway Seventh Day Baptist Church, and she has been loyal to her church and an earnest, trustful Christian all her life, quick to grasp any opportunity to help others, whether friends or strangers. She was cheerful and uncomplaining and her presence has been like sunshine.
Farewell services were held from the Seventh Day Baptist Church March 5, 1932. She was laid by the side of her husband in the Nortonville Cemetery.
'The Sabbath Recorder', Vol 112, No 24, p 767, June 13, 1932.
Hannah Abbie Babcock, daughter of George A. and Abbie Brown Babcock, was born in Hopkinton, R. I., January 25, 1843. Her mother was a descendant of Peter Brown, who came over in the Mayflower, and her father descended from James Babcock, the first white child born in Westerly, R. I.
She was married to Russel Maxson, April 5, 1864. After living a short time in Chenango Co., they homesteaded in Freeborn County, Minn. Three years later she went back East for a year to regain her health. In 1869 they sold their Minnesota homestead and came to Kansas, living in Emporia, then in Cowley County. Driven out by ague, they came to Jefferson County, buying land three miles west of Nortonville in 1874. She was left a widow on April 7, 1886, with six children, three having died in infancy. Mr. Maxson and Ina, sixteen, and Clyde, thirteen, succumbed to diphtheria. Some years later Ruth Babcock was taken into the home. She with two more of Mrs. Maxson's children, have since died.
After thirty years on the farm west of town she moved to Nortonville, where she has lived since with the exception of three years in Wisconsin and a little over a year in Battle Creek, Mich.
Early in life she was baptized in the pool behind the Ashaway Seventh Day Baptist Church, and she has been loyal to her church and an earnest, trustful Christian all her life, quick to grasp any opportunity to help others, whether friends or strangers. She was cheerful and uncomplaining and her presence has been like sunshine.
Farewell services were held from the Seventh Day Baptist Church March 5, 1932. She was laid by the side of her husband in the Nortonville Cemetery.
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