MARTHA H. (CHENOWETH) HARLESS

CHENOWETH, HARLESS

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 3/7/2002 at 18:58:56

Decatur County Journal
Thursday, December 9, l9l5

MARTHA H. CHENOWETH was born October ll,
l83l, in Dark County, Ohio.
She resided in Ohio for 28 years. She was
united in marriage to JACOB
L. HARLESS on July l, l854. To this union
were born three children, two
dying in early childhood. She is survived by
her son, FRANK A. HARLESS,
of LaSalle, Iowa, and an adopted son, HOMER
H. HARLESS, of Weldon, Iowa,
and her grandchildren and relatives. She was
the last of a family of
twelve children.

When eight years of age she united with the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
She was a loyal member for over seventy-six
years. She has been a
constant reader of the Central Christian
Advocate and other church
papers for seventy years. She has been
feeble for fifteen years. Her
husband has been dead for nine years. These
two people were Saints of
God. She was laid to rest by her Pastor,
Edwin James Laird. She died
at her home in Weldon, Iowa, December 2,
l9l5.

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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our thanks to the friends
who were so kind during the
sickness and at the death of our mother and
grandmother.

FRANK A. HARLESS,

HOMER H. HARLESS,

THE GRANDCHILDREN.

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