Conkey, Elizabeth (Daulton) 1855-1943

CONKEY, DAULTON, JACOBSON, REYNOLDS, HAAS

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Date: 9/4/2013 at 23:07:03

Waukon, Ia. - Funeral services for Mrs. H.O. Conkey, 88, will be held here Thursday afternoon at the Martin Bros. Funeral Home, with the Rev. August Grossheim, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Lansing.

Mrs. Conkey died Monday night at the Mrs. George Jacobson home here, where she had been cared for the past several years.

She was born Elizabeth Daulton and was born Jan. 25, 1855, in Michigan, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Daulton. The family moved to Allamakee County several years later and on Dec. 29, 1880, she married Mr. Conkey, a railroad employe. Following his death in 1932, she came to Waukon.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. William Reynolds of Waukon and Mrs. Nellie Haas of Clinton, Minn.; and two brothers, Edward and Lyman Daulton, both living near Seattle, Wash.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Wednesday evening edition, February 10, 1943