OAKLEY, Susan 1805-1886

OAKLEY

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/7/2014 at 16:42:18

Iowa Plain Dealer March 18, 1886, P3 C2

The venerable parents of John R. Oakley of Lawler, passed away within fourteen days of each other. The Chickasaw County Democrat of the 12th, says of them:

Died in Lawler on Sunday morning, March 7th 1886, Mrs. Susan Oakley, 82 years of age, and on the 8th she was buried by the side of her husband, Abraham Oakley, who departed just two weeks preceding her, after sojourning together as man and wife, 63 years.

Mrs. Oakley was born in New Haven, Vt., in the year 1805, was married to Abraham Oakley in 1824, and although they lived together an almost unusual length of time, yet they followed each other after the short space of fourteen days.