Mary J. Rowser Seymour
Sister to Samuel Smith Rowser

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary J. Seymour will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the M. P. Wilson home, 819 Fourth Avenue. The Rev. J. J. Giblette of the First Baptist Church will officiate and interment will be in Springdale Cemetery.

Mary J. Rowser was born 13 July 1830, at Martinsburg, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, coming to Iowa with her parents in 1844. They made the long trip by wagon, canal and steamboat, the latter from Pittsburg down the Ohio River, thence the Mississippi to Davenport.

In 1849, she was married to Peter Wilson of Davenport, a pioneer plow manufacturer of Iowa, the firm being Wilson-Bechtel Shumway. Mr. Wilson died during the cholera epidemic of 1852. To them were born two children, Florence G. and Melvin P. Wilson, the son surviving. In 1863, Mrs. Wilson married C. L. Seymour, a Clinton County pioneer of 1843. Mr. Seymour passed away 3 October 1902. Living on the farm in Harts Mill Road until the spring of 1892. They moved to Clinton, making their home in Fourth Avenue where she had lived with her son continually since the death of Mr. Seymour.

Of her immediate family a sister, Mrs. Fannie M. Eppard of Dell Rapids, South Dakota, is left, a sister-in-law in Davenport, several nephews and nieces, the two sons of Mr. Seymour, Alfred and Edgar, of Clinton several grandchildren also great grandchildren.

Mrs. Seymour retained her mental faculties to the last. And her quick step, cheerful disposition and Christian character, endeared her a host of friends. Those who knew her best loved her most.

Boys grown to manhood, sons of pioneers whose farms adjoined the old home in Harts Mill Road will act as pall bearers.

Obituary Clipping from scrapbook of Ella Rowser Rodes. Sent us by her daughter Alta Schleuter, Saxton Pennsylvania