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Submitted: 1/3/12 • Approved: 1/5/12 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R144661-G144660-S3
Please note the name difference in the obit and headstone. SD Death Index states "Jane Nisbet" died on March 7, 1921.
Birth: Jul. 17, 1833
Dundee, Scotland
Death: Mar. 7, 1921
Dell Rapids
Minnehaha County
South Dakota, USA
Pioneer Woman Answers Summons
Death Claims Mrs. Jane C. Nisbet. One of the Oldest Residents of Dell Rapids.
Mrs. Jane C. Nisbet, one of the oldest residents of this vicinity, died at her home in Dell Rapids Monday morning, March 7th. She had been confined to her bed for about a week, with a bad cold, which developed into bronchial pneumonia which proved fatal.
The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon, services being conducted by the Rev. P.C. Larsen, pastor of the First Baptist church, at the residence of the deceased at two o'clock and the deceased was laid to rest beside the grave of her husband, who died a number of years ago. Messrs. E.C. Bent, Wm. McFarland, James Ridlington, George W. Dean, Dr. V. A. Wood and F.W. Barbour acting as pall bearers.
W.C. Nisbet and Miss Elizabeth Nisbet were with their mother at the time of her death, and the deceased's other daughter, Mrs. Alice A. Loomis, and granddaughter. Mrs. Edwin s. Ewell, of Minneapolis, came Tuesday morning to attend the funeral. The fixing of the time of the funeral had been delayed in the hope that he deceased's eldest son, J. M. Nisbet of Seattle, Wash. might be able to come for the funeral , but he wired that he was unable to come.
Jane C. Nisbet, whose maiden name was Jane C. Morrison, was born in Dundee, Scotland, July 17, 1833, and died March 7, 1921, so that her age at the time of her death was 87 years, 7 months and 20 days.
She came from Scotland to the United States at the age of ten years with her parents who first located on a farm near Milwaukee, Wis., and later settled on a homestead in Dane County, Wis., about fifteen miles from Madison, the state capital, which homestead is still owned by a descendant of the original claimant being owned and farmed by a nephew of the deceased.
The deceased was married at Lodi, Wis., on Feb 4, 1855, to James Nisbet and for several years they resided at Warnerville, Wis., where Mr. Nisbet was engaged in the lumbering business. In 1864 they removed to Osage, Iowa, where they resided until 1872, when they came to Dell Rapids, and except for a later temporary residence at Osage, the deceased had resided here continuously since that time.
Thus the deceased had three experiences in pioneer life in her life time – first in Wisconsin, which was a rather sparsely settled territory at the time her parents moved there; second at Osage, Iowa, which section was a new and undeveloped territory at the time she and her husband located there; and, third, in this vicinity when they located here as the then Territory of Dakota was but little settled, there being but two buildings in Dell Rapids, then called Dell City, and but few at Sioux Falls except the old Fort Dakota buildings. Thus the deceased was one of the early pioneers of three states in their first real settlement, and one of the oldest residents of the vicinity.
The deceased's husband died in 1887, since which time she had resided in Dell Rapids with her daughter, Elizabeth, to whose tender care she owed much of the peace and happiness with which she was blessed in her declining years.
To the deceased and her husband were born five children, all of whom survive her except one son, Dr. M. D. Nisbet, who died at Sioux City in1904. Her surviving children are Mrs. Alice A. Loomis, of Minneapolis, James M, Nisbet, of Seattle Wash, and Elizabeth Nisbet and William C. Nisbet of Dell Rapids. She also is survived by two brothers, James and A.H. Morrison of Morrisville, Wis. – nine grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
It was vouchsafed the deceased to live a long and useful life; in our country; to see the great and marvelous inventions that have been perfected in her nearly a century of life; to see the world and the United States ravaged by war, and peaces again restored. And now has come to her the quiet and peace of eternal rest beside her beloved husband after the separations of many years.
The passing of the deceased in the fullness of her years is but the fulfillment of Nature's law, for all must die in the fulfillment of time, but, notwithstanding, the separation that Death brings – the laying away in the grave of a loved one, whose kindly heart is stilled forever, whose places can never be filled – cannot but be deeply mourned by those who owe so much to her mother love. To them, however, is left a memory to be cherished now and in the years to come- of her loving motherhood in their childhood and youth, and all the years of her life – of her loyalty and love – of her upright Christian life – of her devotion in time of stress and trouble, as well as time of prosperity and happiness; and the hope, that in her passing to that bourne whence none returns she has but become reunited with the husband and father and other loved ones who have gone before.
Dell Rapids Tribune
March 10, 1921
Contributed on 1/3/12 by fiegen
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