Shelby County IL Archives Obituaries.....HADWIN, MARY ATKINSON February 1904
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THE DAILY REVIEW, DECATUR, IL
"DEATH OF MRS. MARY HADWIN AT SHELBYVILLE AT AN ADVANCED AGE"
MRS.MARY HADWIN, A VENERABLE RESTENT OF SHELBY COUNT, MOTHER OF JAMES HADWIN & 
SISTER OF MRS. ELLEN TURNER, BOTH OF DECATUR, DIED AT HER HOME IN SHELBYVILLE 
ON MONDAY MORNING, AGED 85 YRS. MRS. HADWIN FELL & DISLOCATED HER HIP ABOUT 
TWO YEARS AGO, AND WAS MADE AN INVALID FROM THE INJURIES. HER LAST SEVERE 
ILLNESS DATES BACK TO TWO WEEKS AGO WHEN SHE CONTRACTED A SEVERE COLD. DEATH 
WAS DUE TO A GENERAL BREAKING DOWN CONSEQUENT TO OLD AGE.
MRS. HADWIN WAS THE DAUGHTER OF MR. & MRS. JOHN ATKINSON. SHE WAS BORN IN 
YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND. NOV. 12, 1818. HER MARRIAGE TO THOMAS HADWIN TOOK PLACE IN 
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT SEDBERG, HER MOTHER COUNTRY IN 1844.
              IN ENGLISH SETTLEMENT
ALMOST IMMEDEATELY FOLLOWING THE NUPTIAL CEREMONY THE YOUNG COUPLE CAME TO THE 
UNITED STATES, SETTLING NEAR MASOLLON, OHIO.  IN 1847 THEY MOVED TO SHELBY 
COUNTY, IL. WHERE THE JOINED THE ENGLISH COLONY IN TODDS POINT TOWNSHIP. 
THOMAS HADWIN, THE HUSBAND, DIED JAN. 5, 1886. THE FOLLOWING YEAR MRS. HADWIN 
AND HER FAMILY MOVED TO SHELBYVILLE, WHERE SHE HAS SINCE RESIDED.  MR. AND 
MRS. HADWIN WERE THE PARENTS OF NINE CHILDREN, ONE SON, JOHN, DYING DURING THE 
CIVIL WAR.THE SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE: MRS. ALICE WILSON, CHICAGO; MRS SARAH 
BOONE, SOUTH HAVEN, KS.; THOMAS AND MISSES ELLEN AND LOU OF THIS CITY; WILLIAM 
OF WASHINGTON, JAMES OF DECATUR AND DAVID OF ASSUMPTION. HER SURVIVING FAMILY 
ARE BROTHERS & SISTERS: MRS. ELLEN TURNER, DECATUR; WILLIAM 
ATKINSON ,SHELBYVILLE, AND JAMES ATKINSON, SHELBYVILLE, AND JAMES ATKINSON OF 
TODDS POINT.

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