Sister: Annetta Mallett Moore
The Holton Recorder, December 6, 1923:
Josephine Mallett Linscott was born at Fort Madison, Iowa, August 16, 1845, daughter of Gordon Mallett and Lydia Minerva Hitchcock, of Norman and English decent, and strong religious tendencies. Her uncle went to the Sandwich Islands in 1831 as a missionary, and his children and grandchildren are keeping up the work; a cousin went to Mexico and another to South America as missionaries. She was educated in the common schools at Fort Madison and Fairfield, Iowa, and at Rockford Female Seminary in Rockford, Ill. She was left an orphan at an early age, her father died when she was ten years old and her mother when she was sixteen. She taught school in her native community, until 1866, when she was married to Shepard Keen Linscott, in Washington, Iowa, who died seventeen years ago. To this union were born seven sons, the first of whom died in infancy, and the other six survive her; three being born in Iowa and three in Holton. September 5th, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Linscott, with their family arrived in Holton, on the first regular passenger train; and she has lived here until she "crossed the bar" at seven o'clock last Saturday evening, December 1st, aged 78 years, 3 months and 15 days. … she was essentially a homemaker, devoted to the care of her home and children, including her step-daughter to whom she was a true mother … a charter member of the Chautauqua Circle, the Avon club, the Wednesday Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the Friday Club … She was for many years a member of the Eastern Star, and of the Toltec Rite. During the World War, in which four of her grandchildren served, she gave much of her time and ability to the work of the Red Cross. … her husband after nearly forty years of marriage said she had never spoken a cross word to him … Mrs. Linscott leaves to mourn her departure, a step-daughter, Mrs. Esther J. Saxon, six sons, George S., Frank M., Walter K., Ralph J., Clare M. and Sidney S., and twenty-one grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, besides nephews and nieces … Burial was in the Holton cemetery.
Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral of Mrs. S. K. Linscott were: Mrs. Esther J. Saxon of St. Marys, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Keen Saxon, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Linscott and family, Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Linscott, Lancaster, W. K. Linscott, Mobile, Ala., C. M. Linscott and children, Dayton, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony, Cummings, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D. Lueck, Netawaka, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tribble, Circleville, and Mr. and Mrs. John Brown.
The Holton Recorder, December 6, 1923:
Josephine Mallett Linscott was born at Fort Madison, Iowa, August 16, 1845, daughter of Gordon Mallett and Lydia Minerva Hitchcock, of Norman and English decent, and strong religious tendencies. Her uncle went to the Sandwich Islands in 1831 as a missionary, and his children and grandchildren are keeping up the work; a cousin went to Mexico and another to South America as missionaries. She was educated in the common schools at Fort Madison and Fairfield, Iowa, and at Rockford Female Seminary in Rockford, Ill. She was left an orphan at an early age, her father died when she was ten years old and her mother when she was sixteen. She taught school in her native community, until 1866, when she was married to Shepard Keen Linscott, in Washington, Iowa, who died seventeen years ago. To this union were born seven sons, the first of whom died in infancy, and the other six survive her; three being born in Iowa and three in Holton. September 5th, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Linscott, with their family arrived in Holton, on the first regular passenger train; and she has lived here until she "crossed the bar" at seven o'clock last Saturday evening, December 1st, aged 78 years, 3 months and 15 days. … she was essentially a homemaker, devoted to the care of her home and children, including her step-daughter to whom she was a true mother … a charter member of the Chautauqua Circle, the Avon club, the Wednesday Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the Friday Club … She was for many years a member of the Eastern Star, and of the Toltec Rite. During the World War, in which four of her grandchildren served, she gave much of her time and ability to the work of the Red Cross. … her husband after nearly forty years of marriage said she had never spoken a cross word to him … Mrs. Linscott leaves to mourn her departure, a step-daughter, Mrs. Esther J. Saxon, six sons, George S., Frank M., Walter K., Ralph J., Clare M. and Sidney S., and twenty-one grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, besides nephews and nieces … Burial was in the Holton cemetery.
Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral of Mrs. S. K. Linscott were: Mrs. Esther J. Saxon of St. Marys, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Keen Saxon, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Linscott and family, Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Linscott, Lancaster, W. K. Linscott, Mobile, Ala., C. M. Linscott and children, Dayton, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony, Cummings, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D. Lueck, Netawaka, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tribble, Circleville, and Mr. and Mrs. John Brown.
Sister: Annetta Mallett Moore
The Holton Recorder, December 6, 1923:
Josephine Mallett Linscott was born at Fort Madison, Iowa, August 16, 1845, daughter of Gordon Mallett and Lydia Minerva Hitchcock, of Norman and English decent, and strong religious tendencies. Her uncle went to the Sandwich Islands in 1831 as a missionary, and his children and grandchildren are keeping up the work; a cousin went to Mexico and another to South America as missionaries. She was educated in the common schools at Fort Madison and Fairfield, Iowa, and at Rockford Female Seminary in Rockford, Ill. She was left an orphan at an early age, her father died when she was ten years old and her mother when she was sixteen. She taught school in her native community, until 1866, when she was married to Shepard Keen Linscott, in Washington, Iowa, who died seventeen years ago. To this union were born seven sons, the first of whom died in infancy, and the other six survive her; three being born in Iowa and three in Holton. September 5th, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Linscott, with their family arrived in Holton, on the first regular passenger train; and she has lived here until she "crossed the bar" at seven o'clock last Saturday evening, December 1st, aged 78 years, 3 months and 15 days. … she was essentially a homemaker, devoted to the care of her home and children, including her step-daughter to whom she was a true mother … a charter member of the Chautauqua Circle, the Avon club, the Wednesday Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the Friday Club … She was for many years a member of the Eastern Star, and of the Toltec Rite. During the World War, in which four of her grandchildren served, she gave much of her time and ability to the work of the Red Cross. … her husband after nearly forty years of marriage said she had never spoken a cross word to him … Mrs. Linscott leaves to mourn her departure, a step-daughter, Mrs. Esther J. Saxon, six sons, George S., Frank M., Walter K., Ralph J., Clare M. and Sidney S., and twenty-one grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, besides nephews and nieces … Burial was in the Holton cemetery.
Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral of Mrs. S. K. Linscott were: Mrs. Esther J. Saxon of St. Marys, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Keen Saxon, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Linscott and family, Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Linscott, Lancaster, W. K. Linscott, Mobile, Ala., C. M. Linscott and children, Dayton, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony, Cummings, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D. Lueck, Netawaka, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tribble, Circleville, and Mr. and Mrs. John Brown.
The Holton Recorder, December 6, 1923:
Josephine Mallett Linscott was born at Fort Madison, Iowa, August 16, 1845, daughter of Gordon Mallett and Lydia Minerva Hitchcock, of Norman and English decent, and strong religious tendencies. Her uncle went to the Sandwich Islands in 1831 as a missionary, and his children and grandchildren are keeping up the work; a cousin went to Mexico and another to South America as missionaries. She was educated in the common schools at Fort Madison and Fairfield, Iowa, and at Rockford Female Seminary in Rockford, Ill. She was left an orphan at an early age, her father died when she was ten years old and her mother when she was sixteen. She taught school in her native community, until 1866, when she was married to Shepard Keen Linscott, in Washington, Iowa, who died seventeen years ago. To this union were born seven sons, the first of whom died in infancy, and the other six survive her; three being born in Iowa and three in Holton. September 5th, 1872, Mr. and Mrs. Linscott, with their family arrived in Holton, on the first regular passenger train; and she has lived here until she "crossed the bar" at seven o'clock last Saturday evening, December 1st, aged 78 years, 3 months and 15 days. … she was essentially a homemaker, devoted to the care of her home and children, including her step-daughter to whom she was a true mother … a charter member of the Chautauqua Circle, the Avon club, the Wednesday Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of the Friday Club … She was for many years a member of the Eastern Star, and of the Toltec Rite. During the World War, in which four of her grandchildren served, she gave much of her time and ability to the work of the Red Cross. … her husband after nearly forty years of marriage said she had never spoken a cross word to him … Mrs. Linscott leaves to mourn her departure, a step-daughter, Mrs. Esther J. Saxon, six sons, George S., Frank M., Walter K., Ralph J., Clare M. and Sidney S., and twenty-one grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, besides nephews and nieces … Burial was in the Holton cemetery.
Among those from out-of-town who attended the funeral of Mrs. S. K. Linscott were: Mrs. Esther J. Saxon of St. Marys, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Keen Saxon, Topeka; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Linscott and family, Farmington, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Linscott and family, Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Linscott, Lancaster, W. K. Linscott, Mobile, Ala., C. M. Linscott and children, Dayton, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony, Cummings, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. Chas. D. Lueck, Netawaka, Kan., Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tribble, Circleville, and Mr. and Mrs. John Brown.
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