Re: Death Record or Obit
FERRIS, GERO, COURTNEY, ANDERSON, MOYLAN
Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email) In Response To: Death Record or Obit (Jerry Ferris)
Date: 4/3/2018 at 08:29:52
I could only locate death records starting January 1, 1904, four days after his death. His obituary should have been in the Bayard Advocate or the Bayard News. Unfortunately, I could not locate the years of 1903 or 1904 being extant. It appears that no issues for those years have been located to be microfilmed.
There was an obituary for his wife. Her tombstone says "Mary Ferris," however her obituary says "Amelia."
AN AGED MOTHER TAKEN
Amelia Gero was born near Montreal, Canada in the year 1837, died Wednesday, February 15, 1911 at the age of 74 years. She was united in marriage to John Ferris at Potsdam, New York, in 1854. They immigrated to Iowa in 1865, locating near Monroe, Jasper County. From there they moved to Panora, Guthrie County, residing there a few years when they moved to Rock Bluffs in 1870 where she lived until coming to this place in 1886, residing here continuously until her husband's death which occurred Sunday, December 28, 1903.To this union nine children were born, Daniel E., Dennis B., and Ellen C., deceased. Michael and John of Nauton, Canada, Joseph of Steele, North Dakota, Mrs. Ben Courtney of Coon Rapids, Mrs. John Anderson of Dawson and Mrs. John Moylan of this place with whom she has made her home for the past six years. About the time she came to live with Mrs. Moylan, she was stricken with paralysis from which she never fully recovered. Her daughters were with her in her last sickness but her sons could not be reached in time.
She was a kind and loving mother a dutiful wife. She possessed a Christian fortitude and bore all her sufferings patiently to the end. She was loved and respected by all who knew her. The funeral service was held in the Catholic church, Friday, conducted by Rev. Father Quinn who delivered an appropriate sermon. Interment in Willow cemetery.
She died trusting in that Savior so beautifully described by Rev. F. W. Faber, an eminent Catholic divine in a hymn non-Catholic and Catholic alike delight to sing:
There is welcome for the sinner,
and more graces for the good
There is mercy with the Savior,
There is healing in His blood.
"May she rest in peace"Bayard Advocate -- Bayard, Iowa
February 23, 1911
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