DAUGHERTY, Mary

DAUGHERTY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/26/2018 at 19:23:36

Obituary ~ Mary Daugherty

The Leon Reporter
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
Thursday, November 13, 1913
Page 5

Mrs. Mary Daugherty.
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Mrs. Mary Daugherty died at the home of her son, Manford, near Davenport, Oklahoma, on Friday, Oct. 3, at 4:30 p.m. after an illness of one week.

She suffered a stroke of paralysis one week before her deat. Her age was 75 years, 10 months and 3 days. She was born in Pennsylvania. There she was married to Alfred M. Daugherty. They moved to Illinois, and then to Mercer county, Missouri, near Pleasanton, Iowa. Here about fifty years of her life were spent.

Mrs. Daugherty was the mother of nine children, seven of whom are living, three being present at the funeral services. He husband passed away about twelve years ago. Mrs. Daugherty spent the last three years of her life with her children, and the past year and a half with her son near Davenport.

During her last illness she was unable to talk, but she died in the christian's faith, having converted and a member of the Baptist church for years.

The funeral was preached at the home of her son, Manford, Saturday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock by Alonzo Horn, an evangelist of the Church of God in Christ, from The. 4:13-18.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2018