Mrs. Harriet Ankeny died at her home in Des Moines, Ia., on Easter Sunday, April 18th, in the ninety-seventh year of her age.
It was February 15, 1801, almost at the dawn of this century, that Harriet Susannah Giese first saw the light of day in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Her father was Rev. Henry Giese, a native of Lichtenow, Westphalia, one of the early and strong preachers of the German Reformed church, whoso name has an honored place in the early church history. Her mother was Anna Maria Baker, born near Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Ankeny, however, lost her mother when she was but six weeks of age and she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher, whose kindness to her was so great that she ever held them in the same affection as that given to her parents.
Mrs. Ankeny is the last of her family of two brothers and four sisters. She became the wife of Mr. Ankeny on July 29, 1823. It was a very happy marriage and celebrated with the usual festivites [sic] of the time, a party of eighteen ladies and gentlemen riding over from Somerset, nine miles distant, on horseback, to attend. The young couple went to the old Ankeny homestead, in Somerset, to begin their married life.
The old farm home was not abandoned until 1831, when Mr. and Mrs. Ankeny moved to Millersburg, O. Their four sons were born in Pennsylvania and their four daughters in Ohio, here the family lived most happily until they removed to Iowa and to Des Moines. Mrs. Ankeny lost her husband in 1876, and it has been chiefly upon her daughter, Miss Harriet Ankeny, whose care for her mother has been a first consideration always rested.
Born on the threshold of the nineteenth century, she lived under the administration of every president except that of Washington, beginning in that of Adams and closing her life in the initial stages of the administration of President McKinley. Having lived through the war of 1812, the Seminole Indian war, the war with Mexico and the great civil war, she was imbued with a patriotism most sturdy and intense, often remarking to her children and grandchildren to be "always true to your God, your country and your flag."
The surviving children are: Mr. Peter Ankeny, the eldest, now 71 years of age; Captain Ankeny of Corning, Colonel Ankeny, Mrs. J.R. Barcroft, Miss Hattie Ankeny, of Des Moines, and Mrs. H.H. Clark, of Hartford, Conn., all of whom were present at the bedside of their mother when the end came.
--Somerset (Pennsylvania) Herald, Apr. 28, 1897
Contributor: Michael W. Sechler (48022195)
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Daughter of Henry and Anna Maria (Baker) Giese.
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in same lot:
Harriet Louise Ankeny, Harriet Susanna Giesey Ankeny, John Fletcher Ankeny, Joseph A.Ankeny, Irvine Sample Ankeny, Rollin Valentine Ankeny, Sarah Irvine Ankeny, Sarah Hagar Wolgamot Ankeny, Infant of Geo C.Burnett, Harriet Ankeny Mott, Laura Reed
It was February 15, 1801, almost at the dawn of this century, that Harriet Susannah Giese first saw the light of day in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Her father was Rev. Henry Giese, a native of Lichtenow, Westphalia, one of the early and strong preachers of the German Reformed church, whoso name has an honored place in the early church history. Her mother was Anna Maria Baker, born near Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Ankeny, however, lost her mother when she was but six weeks of age and she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher, whose kindness to her was so great that she ever held them in the same affection as that given to her parents.
Mrs. Ankeny is the last of her family of two brothers and four sisters. She became the wife of Mr. Ankeny on July 29, 1823. It was a very happy marriage and celebrated with the usual festivites [sic] of the time, a party of eighteen ladies and gentlemen riding over from Somerset, nine miles distant, on horseback, to attend. The young couple went to the old Ankeny homestead, in Somerset, to begin their married life.
The old farm home was not abandoned until 1831, when Mr. and Mrs. Ankeny moved to Millersburg, O. Their four sons were born in Pennsylvania and their four daughters in Ohio, here the family lived most happily until they removed to Iowa and to Des Moines. Mrs. Ankeny lost her husband in 1876, and it has been chiefly upon her daughter, Miss Harriet Ankeny, whose care for her mother has been a first consideration always rested.
Born on the threshold of the nineteenth century, she lived under the administration of every president except that of Washington, beginning in that of Adams and closing her life in the initial stages of the administration of President McKinley. Having lived through the war of 1812, the Seminole Indian war, the war with Mexico and the great civil war, she was imbued with a patriotism most sturdy and intense, often remarking to her children and grandchildren to be "always true to your God, your country and your flag."
The surviving children are: Mr. Peter Ankeny, the eldest, now 71 years of age; Captain Ankeny of Corning, Colonel Ankeny, Mrs. J.R. Barcroft, Miss Hattie Ankeny, of Des Moines, and Mrs. H.H. Clark, of Hartford, Conn., all of whom were present at the bedside of their mother when the end came.
--Somerset (Pennsylvania) Herald, Apr. 28, 1897
Contributor: Michael W. Sechler (48022195)
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Daughter of Henry and Anna Maria (Baker) Giese.
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in same lot:
Harriet Louise Ankeny, Harriet Susanna Giesey Ankeny, John Fletcher Ankeny, Joseph A.Ankeny, Irvine Sample Ankeny, Rollin Valentine Ankeny, Sarah Irvine Ankeny, Sarah Hagar Wolgamot Ankeny, Infant of Geo C.Burnett, Harriet Ankeny Mott, Laura Reed
Mrs. Harriet Ankeny died at her home in Des Moines, Ia., on Easter Sunday, April 18th, in the ninety-seventh year of her age.
It was February 15, 1801, almost at the dawn of this century, that Harriet Susannah Giese first saw the light of day in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Her father was Rev. Henry Giese, a native of Lichtenow, Westphalia, one of the early and strong preachers of the German Reformed church, whoso name has an honored place in the early church history. Her mother was Anna Maria Baker, born near Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Ankeny, however, lost her mother when she was but six weeks of age and she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher, whose kindness to her was so great that she ever held them in the same affection as that given to her parents.
Mrs. Ankeny is the last of her family of two brothers and four sisters. She became the wife of Mr. Ankeny on July 29, 1823. It was a very happy marriage and celebrated with the usual festivites [sic] of the time, a party of eighteen ladies and gentlemen riding over from Somerset, nine miles distant, on horseback, to attend. The young couple went to the old Ankeny homestead, in Somerset, to begin their married life.
The old farm home was not abandoned until 1831, when Mr. and Mrs. Ankeny moved to Millersburg, O. Their four sons were born in Pennsylvania and their four daughters in Ohio, here the family lived most happily until they removed to Iowa and to Des Moines. Mrs. Ankeny lost her husband in 1876, and it has been chiefly upon her daughter, Miss Harriet Ankeny, whose care for her mother has been a first consideration always rested.
Born on the threshold of the nineteenth century, she lived under the administration of every president except that of Washington, beginning in that of Adams and closing her life in the initial stages of the administration of President McKinley. Having lived through the war of 1812, the Seminole Indian war, the war with Mexico and the great civil war, she was imbued with a patriotism most sturdy and intense, often remarking to her children and grandchildren to be "always true to your God, your country and your flag."
The surviving children are: Mr. Peter Ankeny, the eldest, now 71 years of age; Captain Ankeny of Corning, Colonel Ankeny, Mrs. J.R. Barcroft, Miss Hattie Ankeny, of Des Moines, and Mrs. H.H. Clark, of Hartford, Conn., all of whom were present at the bedside of their mother when the end came.
--Somerset (Pennsylvania) Herald, Apr. 28, 1897
Contributor: Michael W. Sechler (48022195)
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Daughter of Henry and Anna Maria (Baker) Giese.
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in same lot:
Harriet Louise Ankeny, Harriet Susanna Giesey Ankeny, John Fletcher Ankeny, Joseph A.Ankeny, Irvine Sample Ankeny, Rollin Valentine Ankeny, Sarah Irvine Ankeny, Sarah Hagar Wolgamot Ankeny, Infant of Geo C.Burnett, Harriet Ankeny Mott, Laura Reed
It was February 15, 1801, almost at the dawn of this century, that Harriet Susannah Giese first saw the light of day in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania. Her father was Rev. Henry Giese, a native of Lichtenow, Westphalia, one of the early and strong preachers of the German Reformed church, whoso name has an honored place in the early church history. Her mother was Anna Maria Baker, born near Frederick, Maryland. Mrs. Ankeny, however, lost her mother when she was but six weeks of age and she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher, whose kindness to her was so great that she ever held them in the same affection as that given to her parents.
Mrs. Ankeny is the last of her family of two brothers and four sisters. She became the wife of Mr. Ankeny on July 29, 1823. It was a very happy marriage and celebrated with the usual festivites [sic] of the time, a party of eighteen ladies and gentlemen riding over from Somerset, nine miles distant, on horseback, to attend. The young couple went to the old Ankeny homestead, in Somerset, to begin their married life.
The old farm home was not abandoned until 1831, when Mr. and Mrs. Ankeny moved to Millersburg, O. Their four sons were born in Pennsylvania and their four daughters in Ohio, here the family lived most happily until they removed to Iowa and to Des Moines. Mrs. Ankeny lost her husband in 1876, and it has been chiefly upon her daughter, Miss Harriet Ankeny, whose care for her mother has been a first consideration always rested.
Born on the threshold of the nineteenth century, she lived under the administration of every president except that of Washington, beginning in that of Adams and closing her life in the initial stages of the administration of President McKinley. Having lived through the war of 1812, the Seminole Indian war, the war with Mexico and the great civil war, she was imbued with a patriotism most sturdy and intense, often remarking to her children and grandchildren to be "always true to your God, your country and your flag."
The surviving children are: Mr. Peter Ankeny, the eldest, now 71 years of age; Captain Ankeny of Corning, Colonel Ankeny, Mrs. J.R. Barcroft, Miss Hattie Ankeny, of Des Moines, and Mrs. H.H. Clark, of Hartford, Conn., all of whom were present at the bedside of their mother when the end came.
--Somerset (Pennsylvania) Herald, Apr. 28, 1897
Contributor: Michael W. Sechler (48022195)
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Daughter of Henry and Anna Maria (Baker) Giese.
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in same lot:
Harriet Louise Ankeny, Harriet Susanna Giesey Ankeny, John Fletcher Ankeny, Joseph A.Ankeny, Irvine Sample Ankeny, Rollin Valentine Ankeny, Sarah Irvine Ankeny, Sarah Hagar Wolgamot Ankeny, Infant of Geo C.Burnett, Harriet Ankeny Mott, Laura Reed
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