Spitler, Mattie Ida (Bailey) Walker Emmons 1866-1921

BAILEY, WALKER, FOWLER, WOLFE, EMMONS, SPITLER, FOUGHTY, BARRETT

Posted By: Toni Walker Pralle (email)
Date: 8/1/2015 at 16:56:44

Loved Woman Passes Away

Mrs. Mattie Spitler Answers Final Summons Thursday. Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon.

Deepest regret among a large circle of friends was elicited by the death of Mrs. Mattie Spitler, aged 55 years, wife of David El Spitler, of Alden, who passed to her reward on Thursday, Nov. 10th, in this city at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jay Q. Wolfe.

The deceased had been in poor health for about two years and last August came here from her home in Alden for a visit with her children and other Hampton relatives feeling the change might do her good and hoping that she would soon regain her former splendid health and vigor. However, she failed to improve and for the past two months had been bedfast.

Mattie Ida Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Bailey, well remembered pioneer residents of Franklin county, was born May 30, 1866, on a farm near Sheffield and in early childhood moved with her parents to Hampton where she grew to womanhood.

(There is a missing sentence or two in the clipping before it continues.) in wedlock to B.H. Walker. The young couple moved to Michigan (several years have been left out including the children’s births in Hampton and Nebraska.) and later to Arkansas, where the husband died Dec. 24, 1898. Four children were born to this union all of whom survive and reside in Hampton. The children are Mrs. K.C. Fowler, Liel B. Walker, Mrs. Jay Q. Wolfe and Dale B. Walker. (She was married to Curtis Emmons 1902-1910.) The widow on Nov. 25, 1912, married David E. Spitler, of Panora, Iowa, and lived there for a time and then moved to Alden which has since been her home.

The deceased is also survived by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Tom M. Foughty, Mrs. Chas. P. Barrett and F.W. Bailey, all of Hampton, and Theodore G. Bailey, of Seattle, Wash., and George A. Bailey, of Centuria, Wis.

Among all who knew her, the subject of this sketch ranked as a kind neighbor, devoted wife and mother, a true friend, and withal a woman of heroic mould in bravely meeting the stern requirements and often the disappointments of life.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wm. Welsh, were held from the Baptist church of this city, of which the deceased was a member, on Sunday afternoon. Burial was made in the Hampton cemetery beside her father and mother.

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