CRONK, Emma Jane 1866-1945

CRONK, MARSHALL, PORTER, WHITE, DAVIS, PARRIGIN, JENSEN, FRANCE, RICE, PUGH, CLAIROYE, SMITH

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 1/9/2011 at 12:56:56

Mrs. Ira E. Cronk
Interment Tuesday
In Park Cemetery

Died July 7 In Illinois
Odd Fellows Home
After Brief Illness

Mrs. Ira E. Cronk, 79, who left Nora Springs about two years ago after living here for over thirty years, died at 1 a.m. Saturday, July 7, in the Odd Fellows home at Matoon, Ill., where she and Mr. Cronk had lived for the past year. Her illness had been very brief, and she was confined to her bed for only a day and a half before she succumbed.

Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, July 10, in the Methodist church in Nora Springs of which Mrs. Cronk had been a member for the past 10 years. The Rev. E. E. Clements, pastor of the Rudd Methodist church, officiated in the absence of the local pastor. Pall bearers were Walter Schultz, Glen Idso, R. Z. Nicholas, Dick Kupker, Will Johnson and W. H Lucas. Interment was in Park cemetery. Mrs. L. D. Morphew and Mrs. Eugene Cheney sang "Abide With Me," "In The Garden" and " No Dark Valley". They were accompanined by Mrs. Fred Clark on the piano.

Mrs. Cronk, nee Emma Jane Marshall, was born July 1, 1866, at Pillsbury, Pa., the third child of B. C. and Mary Marshall. At the age of seven she left Pillsbury with her parents, moving to Cincinnati, Iowa. It was there that she was married to Sylvester Davis on March 1, 1882.

Thirteen children were born to their union, 10 daughters and three sons. She is survived by six daughters and one son: Mrs. L. H. (Rose) Porter of Moulton, Iowa; Mrs. L. H. (Cora) White of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Mayme Davis of Chicago; Mrs. Cleon (Blanche) Parrigan of Nora Springs; Mrs. Chris. (Olive) Jensen of Chicago, Ill.; Mrs. V. E. (Ethel) France of St. Paul, Minn, and Glen Davis of Cumberland, Wis. Two daughters died in infancy, Mrs. Stella Rice died in 1913 and Mrs. Nada Pugh in 1923. A son Everett Davis, who left with the 168th infantry, 131st. machine gun battalion, Rainbow division, died in France in 1917. He is one of three veterans in whose memory the local American Legion post was named the Hill-Davis-Schultz post. Another son, Jess Davis, has not been heard from in over eighteen years and is presumed dead. His home was at Grinnell. The family moved to Nora Springs in 1912 and here Mr. Davis died on Oct. 10, 1930. Five years later, in the fall of 1935 his widow was married to Ira E. Cronk. They lived here until 1943, when their advancing years and failing health combined to make it impossible for them to maintain their home here. At that time Mr. Cronk went to live with one of his daughters and Mrs. Cronk went to Chicago, where she spent at year with her daughter, Mrs. Chris Jensen. Both she and Mr. Cronk went to the Odd Fellows home at Matoon, Ill., about a year ago.

In addition to the widower and the seven children mentioned above, she is survived by 18 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Ida Clairoye of Winnipeg, Canada, and Mrs. Alice Smith of Tyler, Texas. Two brothers preceded her in death.