BEATTY, Etta P. (Hawley) & BEATTY, Jennie A. died 1942

HAWLEY, LACOUR, BEATTY, DEMERRITT, PAPE, BLACKBURN, SCOVEL

Posted By: Monica
Date: 5/11/2012 at 12:17:02

I am not related and have no further information, this is taken from an old scrapbook that belonged to Mrs. Clara (Jones) McCartney

HOLD FUNERAL FOR MRS. EMORY BEATTY AND DAUGHTER, JENNIE
Etta Pearl, daughter of Franklyn F. and Cynthia Lacour Hawley, was born July 12, 1870 on a farm about eight miles north of Edgewood. When she was five years of age she moved with her family to a farm in the Bear Creek neighborhood, where she attended school in the old stone schoolhouse. She grew to womanhood in that neighborhood. While still in her teens she attended Upper Iowa University at Fayette and fitted herself to be a teacher. She taught in the rural schools of Clayton County for 11 years, and was very successful in her chosen vocation. Her second term of school as a teacher was in the Wood Center school, where she had a pupil enrollment of 72, seven or eight of her pupils being older than their teacher.For the past several years the Wood Center school has held a Teacher-Pupil reunion, every meeting of which Mrs. Beatty had attended. Her former pupils held her in very high esteem.

At an early age Mrs. Beatty, then Etta Pearl Hawley, joined the Methodist Church, which held its meetings at that time in the stone schoolhouse on Bear Creek. Later, when the Asbury church was erected, she attended services there. She was received into the membership of the church December 5, 1886. For many years she was a member of the Methodist Church at Edgewood, and later, until her death belonged here at the Wood Church. She was also a member of the W. C. T. U. at Edgewood, and was always faithful in Christian labors.

On May 10, 1898, Etta Hawley was united in marriage to Emory R. Beatty. They established their home on a farm two and one-half miles northeast of Littleport, where they resided throughout their entire married life. To their union were born two sons and three daughters, Raymond, who resides near the home, Roy, Mrs. Florence DeMerritt and Mrs. Cynthia Pape, all of whom reside in Chicago, and Jennie who was with her mother in the tragedy which called them to the Great Beyond.

As a true and faithful wife, Mrs. Beatty will be greatly missed by her aged husband, and as a loving and devoted mother she will be greatly missed by the children she reared in the nuture and admonition of the Lord.
Mrs. Beatty is survived by her husband; the two sons and two daughters previously mentioned; two sisters, Mrs. Almeda Blackburn of Linden, Kansas, and Mrs. Jennie Scovel of Edgewood; and one brother Roy Hawley of Spring Hill, Kansas; and five grandsons and one granddaughter.
Mrs. Beatty's kindness toward others is well known. She was unusaully tolerant of others, always speaking well of others and never evil.

Jennie ALmeda Beatty

Jennie Almeda, youngest daughter of Emory and Etta Beatty, was born December 7, 1912 on the Beatty homestead northeast of Littleport. She attended school in the stone schoolhouse on Bear Creek. She spent her entire life with her parents to whom she was a devoted daughter.
She was received into membership of the Methodist Church at Wood some years ago and was a member of this church at the time of her death. She is survivied by her father, two sisters, Mrs. Florence DeMerritt and Mrs. Cynthia Pape, both of Chicago, two brothers, Raymond of this vicinity and Roy of Chicago; and five nephews, Robert, Leland and Randall DeMerritt, and Donald and Thomas Pape, and one niece, Marilyn Pape, all of Chicago.

Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Wood Center Church conducted by the pastor, Rev. Thos. H. Smith. Music for the service was by C. J. Rulon and Mrs. Clay Ash with Mrs. Jack Miller accompanist. Casket attendants were O. H. Berens, M. L. Appleton, Ranson Rolfe, Geo. Ortman, Adam Thein and Delores Thein. Burial was made at the Union Cemetery near Littleport.

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Added by S. Ferrall - cemetery records indicate both died November 10, 1942