Person:Nancy Madden (1)

(Obituary) The Topeka Tribune, Thursday morning, July 21st, 1859.

Died, near Wilmington, Kansas on the 8th inst., after an illness of eight days ANN HARVEY, wife of Henry Harvey, in the sixty-second year of her age.

    The deceased came to Kansas with her husband and their family in the Spring of 1840, and took charge, as Matron of the Friend's Mission for the education of the Shawnee Indians, and remained there two years...(having spent several years engaged in the like arduous service among the same Indians in Ohio)...in the service of the Society of Friends, and much to the satisfaction of the Society, as well as to the help and lasting benefit of the objects of her care and solicitude, and long will those people remember her kind and motherly care for the children whom they committed to her charge.
    In 1850 she removed with her husband, who was Agent for the Osages, and spent some time with these Indians, whose destitute condition called for all the charity which was in her power to bestow upon them, which she did attend to with everthing in her reach, and that too without grudging, looking forward to receive that reward which is promised to such as feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and administer help to the sick, etc.
    She and her family were among the first settlers in Kansas, after the organization of the Territory, and have resided here ever since. Being an early settler here and having an extensive acquaintance, many called on them, who were cheerfully cared for by her as far as she was able, which, many who read this notice will well remember. She was a member of the Religious Society of Friends from early youth. Her conduct was exemplary. She was a kind and affectionate wife, a tender mother, and an obliging neighbor. She leaves a husband, three surviving children, and a large number of relations and friends in the Western States to lament her death.

contributed by Dorothy Madden Luther.

1. ↑ Harvey History "Book", by N. E. Almond, 12/99..
2. ↑ Family History by Dorothy Madden Luther. (circa 1999).
3. ↑ The Quaker Collection; Jerry Richmond Files, 1999. (<invalid link - 12 May 2017>).