Obituary for Betsey Parks Houston (b. 1811 NH, d. 1901 MN) Resident of Dodge County, MN
From: Bill Porter - wwp@unique-software.com

Source: Newspaper
Dodge County Republican; 15 August 1901
Page x: Column x; Reads as follows:

                                    BETSEY PARKS HOUSTON

After two score years' residence in Dodge county, Betsey Parks Houston, one of our most 
loved and respected old settlers, passed away on Friday, the 9th inst., the end of a long life 
of usefulness being superinduced by a stroke of appoplexy which attacked the already 
frail frame some eight days previous to the finale.

Surrounded by her children and her children's children, she passed peacefully into the 
arms of her maker, breathing her last midst that quietness and repose which betokens the 
entering o those beautiful gates ajar for the soul which was ever steeped in God's deep 
measure of well-doing.

Betsey Parks Houston was born in Ackworth, N. H., [South Acworth, NH] April 10, 
1811, died August 9, 1901.  She was married to Alexander Houston, October 24, 1836 
and settled in Starksboro, Vt [Starksborough, VT].  In 1853, they moved to Fond du Lac 
county, Wis., from which place in 1861, they moved to Blue Earth county, this state, and 
in 1862 came to Dodge county, and settled on the farm a mile and a quarter east of this 
village, where she spent the remainder of her life.

She was the mother of three children, Mrs. Addie [Adeline] Fisk, Watson A., and D. M. 
[Daniel McClure] Houston who attended her bedside during her closing hours.

The funeral was held from the farm residence at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, Rev. B. C. 
Gillis of Chatfield, officiating.  Interment was in Maple Grove cemetery.  The large 
funeral cortege testified to the esteem in which the deceased was held, and the sorrowing 
relatives have the deep sympathy of the entire community.

[Betsey Parks was the fifth and final child born to the marriage of Elisha Parks and 
Mindwell Grout of South Acworth, NH.  Betsey is the half-sister of Elisha Adams Parks 
of Blue Earth County, MN. Betsey and Elisha Adams Parks share the same father, Elisha 
Parks.] 

[Information in brackets added by the transcriber, William W. Porter on 2-18-2001]

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