Jonathan and Hannah had 8 children.
-------
Hannah Poore Prosser
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by wareagle78
Hannah A. (Poore) Prosser died in Huntington, Ind., in the family of her son-in-law William Daniels, May 15, 1884, in the eightieth year of her age. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Poore, the fifth child of a large family, and born in the parish of Byfield in the county of Essex, Mass. The following is a graphic account of her by her daughter Martha Ann, which we are glad to receive. She says:
Her youth was spent in her native village until she reached her twelth year, when her father determined to try his fortune in what was then the far west. So the home and household goods were sold, the family said farewell to friends and kindred and, in a two-horse wagon, the father, mother and seven children started westward to find a new home.
For six weeks they travelled continuously over mountains and valley, through cities and plains, stopping to rest only over the Sabbath, until they reached the city of Pittsburg, Penn. Here they remained two years. Then her father becoming dissatisfied concluded to push on towards the frontier.
So, with the family and household goods loaded on a flat boat, they floated down the Ohio river, landing at Madison, Ind. They lived here about two years, when her father, having secured a little space and built a cabin, moving his family ther in the fall of 1819.
Two months later after retiring to rest in apparent health he was taken suddenly very sick, and ere the morning dawned he had passed away from his agonized and distracted family.
Far from friends and kindred, alone in the wilderness, the light had gone out and night had settled down upon that cabin home. The winter following the father's death was a dark and dreary one. They were three miles from the nearest neighbor; but among those early settlers were warm, tender hearts, and many a load of corn and bushel of wheat and potatoes found their way to the widow's home accompanied with messages of sympathy from those rude pioneers.
Hannah was then about fifteen years old, the eldest daughter at home and much of the care of the family rested on her; her mother's health being quite poor for several years after her father's death. During all these weary months, her brave, patient, loving heart did much to cheer her mother and bring the sunshine back into the home.
She was married October, 1826, to Dr. Jonathan Prosser and soon after settled in Orleans, Ind., where she lived for more than thirty years. Here she spent the prime of her life. Here her eight children were born, and here five of them were buried; and here she buried her husband, Nov. 8, 1857.
After the death of her husband she remained with her eldest son, Benjamin R., until his death which occurred two years later. She then came to Miami County to reside with her daughters, and with her youngest daughter Mrs. Daniels, she moved to Huntington County about twelve years before her death.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Mahan, a life-long friend of the family and then she was laid to rest on the sunny hill side beside the daughter she loved so well and with whom she lived so long.
She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church shortly after her marriage and ever after remained an earnest, devoted Christian, faithful alike in her church and home duties.
Of a retiring disposition, quiet and gentle in manners, with a pure sweet face and kindly heart, she drew around her many friends. Ever ready to minister to the sick and the needy she lived a life of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty.
She was a wise and judicious mother, the companion and confidant of her children; to her they came with all their griefs and cares and from her loving heart drew wise counsel and tender sympathy.
Her husband, a man of more than ordinary intellectual ability, in the prime of his professional career, at teh age of forty was stricken with paralysis and for many years of affliction and helplessness, she watched beside and ministered to him with the unselfish devotion of a loving wife. With an unwavering faith in God, she preserved a calm, cheerful disposition though often called to pass through sore trials and bereaavements.
One by one, as she advanced in years, she saw those upon whom she had leaned laid in the grave; yet she never murmured nor complained, but from each new grave she turned and gathered up the broken threads of life and tried to weave a perfect pattern, that the Master might approve. Her health, never very rugged, failed gradually for several years before her death, and the story of those years is most fitly told in the beautiful poem
"I am fading away to the land of the blest,
Like the last lingering hues of the eve;
Reclining my head on my kind Saviour's breast,
I soar to my own native Heaven."
For years she had been waiting for the summons, and when it came she passed away like a child sinking to sleep, to open her eyes on the loved ones waiting on the other shore.
Of her posterity, two of her eight children, sixteen of twenty-four grandchildren and three of four great grandchildren are alive in 1885; and the changes in the family since we prepared the printed genealogy of her father's branch of our family area as follows:
------------------------------------------------------
http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
The Poor-Poore family gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10, 1884; pages 45-48
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
1850 United States Federal Census
Hannah Poore Prosser
1885
Andover, Massachusetts
From "The Poor-Poore family Gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10", (Salem: Salem Press, 1885) pp 45-48 as reproduced at http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
-------
Hannah Poore Prosser
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by wareagle78
Hannah A. (Poore) Prosser died in Huntington, Ind., in the family of her son-in-law William Daniels, May 15, 1884, in the eightieth year of her age. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Poore, the fifth child of a large family, and born in the parish of Byfield in the county of Essex, Mass. The following is a graphic account of her by her daughter Martha Ann, which we are glad to receive. She says:
Her youth was spent in her native village until she reached her twelth year, when her father determined to try his fortune in what was then the far west. So the home and household goods were sold, the family said farewell to friends and kindred and, in a two-horse wagon, the father, mother and seven children started westward to find a new home.
For six weeks they travelled continuously over mountains and valley, through cities and plains, stopping to rest only over the Sabbath, until they reached the city of Pittsburg, Penn. Here they remained two years. Then her father becoming dissatisfied concluded to push on towards the frontier.
So, with the family and household goods loaded on a flat boat, they floated down the Ohio river, landing at Madison, Ind. They lived here about two years, when her father, having secured a little space and built a cabin, moving his family ther in the fall of 1819.
Two months later after retiring to rest in apparent health he was taken suddenly very sick, and ere the morning dawned he had passed away from his agonized and distracted family.
Far from friends and kindred, alone in the wilderness, the light had gone out and night had settled down upon that cabin home. The winter following the father's death was a dark and dreary one. They were three miles from the nearest neighbor; but among those early settlers were warm, tender hearts, and many a load of corn and bushel of wheat and potatoes found their way to the widow's home accompanied with messages of sympathy from those rude pioneers.
Hannah was then about fifteen years old, the eldest daughter at home and much of the care of the family rested on her; her mother's health being quite poor for several years after her father's death. During all these weary months, her brave, patient, loving heart did much to cheer her mother and bring the sunshine back into the home.
She was married October, 1826, to Dr. Jonathan Prosser and soon after settled in Orleans, Ind., where she lived for more than thirty years. Here she spent the prime of her life. Here her eight children were born, and here five of them were buried; and here she buried her husband, Nov. 8, 1857.
After the death of her husband she remained with her eldest son, Benjamin R., until his death which occurred two years later. She then came to Miami County to reside with her daughters, and with her youngest daughter Mrs. Daniels, she moved to Huntington County about twelve years before her death.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Mahan, a life-long friend of the family and then she was laid to rest on the sunny hill side beside the daughter she loved so well and with whom she lived so long.
She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church shortly after her marriage and ever after remained an earnest, devoted Christian, faithful alike in her church and home duties.
Of a retiring disposition, quiet and gentle in manners, with a pure sweet face and kindly heart, she drew around her many friends. Ever ready to minister to the sick and the needy she lived a life of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty.
She was a wise and judicious mother, the companion and confidant of her children; to her they came with all their griefs and cares and from her loving heart drew wise counsel and tender sympathy.
Her husband, a man of more than ordinary intellectual ability, in the prime of his professional career, at teh age of forty was stricken with paralysis and for many years of affliction and helplessness, she watched beside and ministered to him with the unselfish devotion of a loving wife. With an unwavering faith in God, she preserved a calm, cheerful disposition though often called to pass through sore trials and bereaavements.
One by one, as she advanced in years, she saw those upon whom she had leaned laid in the grave; yet she never murmured nor complained, but from each new grave she turned and gathered up the broken threads of life and tried to weave a perfect pattern, that the Master might approve. Her health, never very rugged, failed gradually for several years before her death, and the story of those years is most fitly told in the beautiful poem
"I am fading away to the land of the blest,
Like the last lingering hues of the eve;
Reclining my head on my kind Saviour's breast,
I soar to my own native Heaven."
For years she had been waiting for the summons, and when it came she passed away like a child sinking to sleep, to open her eyes on the loved ones waiting on the other shore.
Of her posterity, two of her eight children, sixteen of twenty-four grandchildren and three of four great grandchildren are alive in 1885; and the changes in the family since we prepared the printed genealogy of her father's branch of our family area as follows:
------------------------------------------------------
http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
The Poor-Poore family gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10, 1884; pages 45-48
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
1850 United States Federal Census
Hannah Poore Prosser
1885
Andover, Massachusetts
From "The Poor-Poore family Gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10", (Salem: Salem Press, 1885) pp 45-48 as reproduced at http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
Jonathan and Hannah had 8 children.
-------
Hannah Poore Prosser
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by wareagle78
Hannah A. (Poore) Prosser died in Huntington, Ind., in the family of her son-in-law William Daniels, May 15, 1884, in the eightieth year of her age. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Poore, the fifth child of a large family, and born in the parish of Byfield in the county of Essex, Mass. The following is a graphic account of her by her daughter Martha Ann, which we are glad to receive. She says:
Her youth was spent in her native village until she reached her twelth year, when her father determined to try his fortune in what was then the far west. So the home and household goods were sold, the family said farewell to friends and kindred and, in a two-horse wagon, the father, mother and seven children started westward to find a new home.
For six weeks they travelled continuously over mountains and valley, through cities and plains, stopping to rest only over the Sabbath, until they reached the city of Pittsburg, Penn. Here they remained two years. Then her father becoming dissatisfied concluded to push on towards the frontier.
So, with the family and household goods loaded on a flat boat, they floated down the Ohio river, landing at Madison, Ind. They lived here about two years, when her father, having secured a little space and built a cabin, moving his family ther in the fall of 1819.
Two months later after retiring to rest in apparent health he was taken suddenly very sick, and ere the morning dawned he had passed away from his agonized and distracted family.
Far from friends and kindred, alone in the wilderness, the light had gone out and night had settled down upon that cabin home. The winter following the father's death was a dark and dreary one. They were three miles from the nearest neighbor; but among those early settlers were warm, tender hearts, and many a load of corn and bushel of wheat and potatoes found their way to the widow's home accompanied with messages of sympathy from those rude pioneers.
Hannah was then about fifteen years old, the eldest daughter at home and much of the care of the family rested on her; her mother's health being quite poor for several years after her father's death. During all these weary months, her brave, patient, loving heart did much to cheer her mother and bring the sunshine back into the home.
She was married October, 1826, to Dr. Jonathan Prosser and soon after settled in Orleans, Ind., where she lived for more than thirty years. Here she spent the prime of her life. Here her eight children were born, and here five of them were buried; and here she buried her husband, Nov. 8, 1857.
After the death of her husband she remained with her eldest son, Benjamin R., until his death which occurred two years later. She then came to Miami County to reside with her daughters, and with her youngest daughter Mrs. Daniels, she moved to Huntington County about twelve years before her death.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Mahan, a life-long friend of the family and then she was laid to rest on the sunny hill side beside the daughter she loved so well and with whom she lived so long.
She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church shortly after her marriage and ever after remained an earnest, devoted Christian, faithful alike in her church and home duties.
Of a retiring disposition, quiet and gentle in manners, with a pure sweet face and kindly heart, she drew around her many friends. Ever ready to minister to the sick and the needy she lived a life of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty.
She was a wise and judicious mother, the companion and confidant of her children; to her they came with all their griefs and cares and from her loving heart drew wise counsel and tender sympathy.
Her husband, a man of more than ordinary intellectual ability, in the prime of his professional career, at teh age of forty was stricken with paralysis and for many years of affliction and helplessness, she watched beside and ministered to him with the unselfish devotion of a loving wife. With an unwavering faith in God, she preserved a calm, cheerful disposition though often called to pass through sore trials and bereaavements.
One by one, as she advanced in years, she saw those upon whom she had leaned laid in the grave; yet she never murmured nor complained, but from each new grave she turned and gathered up the broken threads of life and tried to weave a perfect pattern, that the Master might approve. Her health, never very rugged, failed gradually for several years before her death, and the story of those years is most fitly told in the beautiful poem
"I am fading away to the land of the blest,
Like the last lingering hues of the eve;
Reclining my head on my kind Saviour's breast,
I soar to my own native Heaven."
For years she had been waiting for the summons, and when it came she passed away like a child sinking to sleep, to open her eyes on the loved ones waiting on the other shore.
Of her posterity, two of her eight children, sixteen of twenty-four grandchildren and three of four great grandchildren are alive in 1885; and the changes in the family since we prepared the printed genealogy of her father's branch of our family area as follows:
------------------------------------------------------
http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
The Poor-Poore family gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10, 1884; pages 45-48
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
1850 United States Federal Census
Hannah Poore Prosser
1885
Andover, Massachusetts
From "The Poor-Poore family Gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10", (Salem: Salem Press, 1885) pp 45-48 as reproduced at http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
-------
Hannah Poore Prosser
Posted 11 Feb 2013 by wareagle78
Hannah A. (Poore) Prosser died in Huntington, Ind., in the family of her son-in-law William Daniels, May 15, 1884, in the eightieth year of her age. She was the daughter of John and Hannah Poore, the fifth child of a large family, and born in the parish of Byfield in the county of Essex, Mass. The following is a graphic account of her by her daughter Martha Ann, which we are glad to receive. She says:
Her youth was spent in her native village until she reached her twelth year, when her father determined to try his fortune in what was then the far west. So the home and household goods were sold, the family said farewell to friends and kindred and, in a two-horse wagon, the father, mother and seven children started westward to find a new home.
For six weeks they travelled continuously over mountains and valley, through cities and plains, stopping to rest only over the Sabbath, until they reached the city of Pittsburg, Penn. Here they remained two years. Then her father becoming dissatisfied concluded to push on towards the frontier.
So, with the family and household goods loaded on a flat boat, they floated down the Ohio river, landing at Madison, Ind. They lived here about two years, when her father, having secured a little space and built a cabin, moving his family ther in the fall of 1819.
Two months later after retiring to rest in apparent health he was taken suddenly very sick, and ere the morning dawned he had passed away from his agonized and distracted family.
Far from friends and kindred, alone in the wilderness, the light had gone out and night had settled down upon that cabin home. The winter following the father's death was a dark and dreary one. They were three miles from the nearest neighbor; but among those early settlers were warm, tender hearts, and many a load of corn and bushel of wheat and potatoes found their way to the widow's home accompanied with messages of sympathy from those rude pioneers.
Hannah was then about fifteen years old, the eldest daughter at home and much of the care of the family rested on her; her mother's health being quite poor for several years after her father's death. During all these weary months, her brave, patient, loving heart did much to cheer her mother and bring the sunshine back into the home.
She was married October, 1826, to Dr. Jonathan Prosser and soon after settled in Orleans, Ind., where she lived for more than thirty years. Here she spent the prime of her life. Here her eight children were born, and here five of them were buried; and here she buried her husband, Nov. 8, 1857.
After the death of her husband she remained with her eldest son, Benjamin R., until his death which occurred two years later. She then came to Miami County to reside with her daughters, and with her youngest daughter Mrs. Daniels, she moved to Huntington County about twelve years before her death.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Mahan, a life-long friend of the family and then she was laid to rest on the sunny hill side beside the daughter she loved so well and with whom she lived so long.
She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church shortly after her marriage and ever after remained an earnest, devoted Christian, faithful alike in her church and home duties.
Of a retiring disposition, quiet and gentle in manners, with a pure sweet face and kindly heart, she drew around her many friends. Ever ready to minister to the sick and the needy she lived a life of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty.
She was a wise and judicious mother, the companion and confidant of her children; to her they came with all their griefs and cares and from her loving heart drew wise counsel and tender sympathy.
Her husband, a man of more than ordinary intellectual ability, in the prime of his professional career, at teh age of forty was stricken with paralysis and for many years of affliction and helplessness, she watched beside and ministered to him with the unselfish devotion of a loving wife. With an unwavering faith in God, she preserved a calm, cheerful disposition though often called to pass through sore trials and bereaavements.
One by one, as she advanced in years, she saw those upon whom she had leaned laid in the grave; yet she never murmured nor complained, but from each new grave she turned and gathered up the broken threads of life and tried to weave a perfect pattern, that the Master might approve. Her health, never very rugged, failed gradually for several years before her death, and the story of those years is most fitly told in the beautiful poem
"I am fading away to the land of the blest,
Like the last lingering hues of the eve;
Reclining my head on my kind Saviour's breast,
I soar to my own native Heaven."
For years she had been waiting for the summons, and when it came she passed away like a child sinking to sleep, to open her eyes on the loved ones waiting on the other shore.
Of her posterity, two of her eight children, sixteen of twenty-four grandchildren and three of four great grandchildren are alive in 1885; and the changes in the family since we prepared the printed genealogy of her father's branch of our family area as follows:
------------------------------------------------------
http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
The Poor-Poore family gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10, 1884; pages 45-48
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
1850 United States Federal Census
Hannah Poore Prosser
1885
Andover, Massachusetts
From "The Poor-Poore family Gathering at Andover, Mass. Sept. 10", (Salem: Salem Press, 1885) pp 45-48 as reproduced at http://archive.org/stream/poorpoorefamilyr02newy#page/n49/mode/2up
Gravesite Details
(#4038)
Family Members
Siblings
-
Amanda Poore
1798–1799
-
![]()
Wendell Poor
1799–1884
-
Amanda Poore Pearson
1801–1862
-
![]()
Rev Alvin Poore
1803–1862
-
Betsey Chute Poore Wright
1807–1828
-
![]()
Mehetable Thurston Poor Merrell
1809–1881
-
![]()
Susannah "Susan" Poor Brooks
1811–1874
-
![]()
Harriet Poore Houghton
1815–1883
-
John Poore
1818 – unknown
-
![]()
Amelia Parish Poor DeWitt
1820–1846
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
