Crawford County Iowa Obituaries Extracted From The Denison Review, Denison, Ia., 1903

1903 Obituaries from the Denison Review in Denison, Crawford County Iowa.

McHENRY, Dency Tefft, Obituary

Dency Tefft McHenry, eldest daughter of Jesse and Dency Teft, was born in Exeter, R. I., April 5, 1824. The family moved to Allegany county, New York in 1829 where some of their descendants still reside. At the early age of thirteen years she joined the Seventh Day Baptist church and held continuous membership therein until transferred to the church Triumphant on the morning of January 9, 1903. Sixty-six years of earnest Christian living have left their impress on the lives and characters of all those who came within the circle of her influence. She was married Nov. 27, 1845 to James Vincent McHenry, an older brother of Morris and W. A. McHenry of Denison and Mrs. W. W. Coon of Arion, at Almond, Allegany county, N. Y. and there spent ten years of their married life, afterwards moving to Rock county, Wis. In the summer of 1867 they came to Crawford county, Iowa, settling on a farm near Dow City. Mr. McHenry died nearly twelve years ago and she has passed these late years with her son and on the home farm in quiet peaceful content, surrounded by the watchful care and tender solicitude of children and grand children. Her three children - Mrs. C. F. Cassady, Mrs. W.W. Jackson and Mr. Frank McHenry - were all privileged to be with her during her short illness and render the kindly services which cheer the weariness of suffering. Conscious of the change awaiting her, she felt no fear, but with the utmost confidence in God's love and mercy, she spoke of her hope for speedy relief, knowing it were far better to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. With those named above she leaves three brothers and a sister to mourn her departure. [The Denison Review, (Denison, Ia), Jan. 13, 1903]