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Etna Elizabeth "Ettie" Kale Husted

20 Oct 1879 – 7 Jan 1964

Birth20 Oct 1879
Death7 Jan 1964
CemeteryWinterset Cemetery
Winterset , Madison County , Iowa , USA
Added byCrystal on 03 Feb 2019
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12640188

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Etna and Ora are buried together and their youngest son Maurice. and their daughter Esther Quick Miskey are buried on either side. Etna's parents are buried behind them to the left, and other Husted family members are buried to the right.

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Etna (Kale) Husted is from the Kale and King family lines, all were early pioneer families in Madison County, Iowa. *************** Adapted from public records: Etna was fondly called by her nickname Ettie and grew up with five brothers and two sisters. Her father (James Ansel Kale) served 2 years and 10 months with the 39th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. And both grandfathers served in the battles of their times. Ettie married Ora Erastus Husted (1875-1954) on 22 January 1899. He was a Farmer, Rancher and an Iowa State Senator. They had four children: Cresley H. (1902-1978), Esther Margarete (1905-1964), Merrill Raymond (1908-1975) and Maurice Claire (1913-1917). Their farm was on land that was part of her paternal grandfather Noah Morgan King's original property, that he purchased when he came to the county. Etna and Ora celebrated their 50 year golden wedding anniversary with family and friends. Etna had family all around the county. She worked hard raising a family, working the farm, feeding the workmen, and standing alongside her husband in his political endeavours as an Iowa State Senator and State Representative for over ten years. Ettie was a skilful and efficient woman, she was a good cook and she played the piano. Etna knew deep heartache from loosing their youngest son in early childhood. *************** Madison County Iowa (6:183-185) Here are Ettie's own memories on growing up in the 1880s in Winterset: "My memory takes me back to a little house on Grandfather and Grandmother's (John Rouse Kale and Elizabeth A. Thompson) place where we lived. All the children were born there. Then we build a big log house nearby. Three rooms downstairs and an attic big enough for all the boys. Those days we furnished our own entertainment - such as making popcorn balls, pulling taffy and cracking hickory nuts, walnuts, butter nuts, etc. to put in our taffy. Father (James Ansel Kale) was a great hunter. He loved to hunt and fish. In those days we had wild turkeys, prairie chickens, quail, rabbit, squirrel from the woods and fish from the Old Jones Creek. Dad used to go fishing Saturday evenings and that meant fish for breakfast Sunday mornings. Then there was much fruit just for going into the woods and picking it, such as wild plums, grapes, blackberries, crab apples, etc. and every one of these fruits made good eating. Much of the fruit was dried, however such things as corn and green beans was salted down and then freshened in cold water before using. Apples and also corn was dried. Hogs were butchered for the summer meat supply-salted, hung up in the smoke house and smoked for some time. We didn't know too much about canning yet. The first fruit jars I remember were a stone jar with a tin lid and they run sealing wax around the lid to seal it." *************** Winterset Madisonian 1964 MRS. ORA. E. HUSTED DIED TUESDAY IN CALIFORNIA Mrs. Ora E. Husted, a resident of the Truro and Winterset communities most of her life, died this Tuesday, Jan. 7, in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Husted was the widow of the late Ora E. Husted, who served as Iowa State Senator from the Madison-Adair districts for many years. She had been in failing health for several years and had moved to California four years ago to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Esther (Husted) Miskey. Funeral services will be held at the Wilson Funeral Home in Winterset. Her Granddaughter, Mrs. Shirley Coberly and Great Granddaughter, Cynthia, of Los Angeles, are accompanying Mrs. Husted's body to Winterset. Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Funeral Home, with the Rev. W. A. Samp of Winterset officiating. Burial will take place in the Winterset Cemetery.

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