YOUNG MAQUOKETA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HER CHICAGO HOME

YORK, REYNOLDS, PARKER, DAVIS, WOODS

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Date: 3/27/2006 at 17:29:08

JACKSON SENTINEL

DATE OF ARTICLE: 1920
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YOUNG MAQUOKETA WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HER CHICAGO HOME

A message was received here by relatives Saturday, bearing the cruel news to aged parents and devoted sisters, that Mrs. Minnie York-Reynolds, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. York of this city, had been found dead in the dining room of her home on
North Dearborn street, Chicago, two gas jets in an adjoining room being wide open
with fumes from which caused the death of the unfortunate young woman. Immediately
upon receipt of the message, Mrs. June Parker, a sister of Mrs. Reynolds, left for
Chicago to take charge of the body and be present at the investigation. The circumstances
surrounding the untimely death of Mrs. Reynolds need not be detailed here, for while
the coroner's verdict ascribes it a case of suicide, relatives and friends here cannot
picture Minnie in any other than in a role of happiness and her jolly disposition is far
from being suggestive of self-destruction. To the aged parents, especially the infirmed
mother, the sympathy of a community goes out. Weighed down by illness coupled with
the passing of numerous loved ones of late, make her burdens indeed heavy and if ever
kindness and tended sympathy were timely it is surely now.
Mrs. Reynolds was born on the old farm near Hurstville, October 3, 1882, and
passed away in Chicago, Ill., December 11, 1920, death being due to asphyxiation.
Minnie, as she was familiary known here, grew to young womanhood in this vacinity
and her jolly disposition won her many friends who are saddened by her untimely
death. She was united in marriage to Crosbie A. Reynolds of Chicago who passed away
in April 1918. Since this time Mrs. Reynolds had continued to make her home there
in which home her death occurred.
Besides the bereaved parents there survive three sisters, Mrs. Mary Davis, Mrs.
Ida Woods and Mrs. June Parker, of this city, and two brothers, Wallace York of
Mitchell, S. D., and Mr. O. E. York of Belle Plaine, Iowa.
The remains are expected to reach here this Tuesday evening, accompanied by Mrs.
Parker, and the funeral will be held from the York home Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock Rev. E.A. Lang of the Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in Mt. Hope Cemetery.