Broadfoot, Mrs. Jane (1851-1925)
BROADFOOT, BUTLER, MILLER, THORPE
Posted By: Carl Malone (email)
Date: 7/7/2016 at 07:30:07
The Atlantic News Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa
January 3, 1925TWO MORE LOCAL PEOPLE ANSWER THE SUMMONS
Mrs. Jane Broadfoot and Geo. J. Pellett, Well Known People, Are Called by Death.
Death has claimed two more well know people here.
Mrs. Jane Broadfoot.
Mrs. Jane Broadfoot, widow of the late Rev. Alexander Broadfoot, and a lady well known and respected over a long period of residency in this section of the state, died at 8:15 last evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert L. Butler, 1004 Chestnut street. Death was the result of pneumonia, superceded by a cancerous growth from which she had suffered for a number of years. She was in her seventy-fourth year.
Mrs. Broadfoot, whose maiden name was Jane Thorpe, was born near Seaforth, Ontario, Canada, on the 10th of November 1851, and at the time of her death was aged 73 years, 1 month and 22 days. On the 10th of June, 1869, she united in marriage to her last husband, Alexander Broadfoot, at Clinton, Ontario, Canada. For two years after their marriage they continued to make their home in Canada and then emigrated to Dickinson county, Kansas, where they resided till November 1, 1881, when they moved to Henry county, where they lived till March, 1884, when they came to Adair county, Iowa, and that was the family home till 1899, when they came to Atlantic. After living here for six years they again moved back to Adair county, in the Berea vicinity where they had lived before, and lived there till the death of Mr. Broadfoot, which occurred on the 22nd of June, 1916. After the death of her husband deceased made her home a part of the time with her children and the balance of the time at her home. All of the time for the last three years and a great portion of the last six she has made her home with Mrs. Butler, were she died. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Broadfoot, four of whom survive. One daughter died in infancy and another daughter, Mrs. G. R. Miller, died in Des Moines, February 19, 1924. The surviving children are: James M. Broadfoot, Berea; Mrs. Bert L. Butler, Atlantic John A. Broadfoot, Monrovia, Calif.; and Erskine T. Broadfoot, Greenfield, Ia.
Deceased accepted Christ as her Savior forty-five years ago and has enjoyed the fellowship of the Lord’s people since that time.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Butler home, 1004 Chestnut street, the service being conducted by D. R. Charles. Interment will be in the Atlantic cemetery.
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NOTE FROM CONTRIBUTOR: Mrs. Jane Broadfoot was born November 10, 1851 and died January 2, 1925
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