OBITUARY: Margaret Robson Folsom, 1808-1900, Mitchell County, Iowa



                                 FOLSOM

Mrs. Margaret Robson Folsom was born in Northumberland, Eng. December 6,
1808. She came to America with her parents in 1812 and lived in Herringsford,
Canada until 1831, when she married Z. Allan Folsom and went to northern New
York to live.  In 1857 they moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, and in 1869 to
Boone, Iowa, where she lived until about one year ago, when she came to make
her home with her daughter Mrs. M. S. Stacy.

She leaves five daughters to mourn her loss, her husband and seven children
having preceded her.

Many years ago, she with her husband united with the M. E. Church, but in
later years she has attended the Congregational church.

Our mother led a very active and useful life having been one of that useful
band, now fast passing, of "pioneer women," having experienced the toils
and privations of pioneer life in those widely separated portions of our
land.

She passed away December 27, 1900, at Osage, Iowa, in the ninety-third year
of her age.

The funeral and interment was at Boone, Sunday December 30.  A large company
of relatives and old friends laid the mortal remains at rest by the side
of others of her loved ones who had preceded her to the better land.



Copyright (c) 2003 by Marilyn O'connor
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)

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