Catherine Correll (1814-1903)

FLOYD, CORRELL

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 5/26/2009 at 23:38:24

Maquoketa Excelsior, April 17, 1903.

DIED-
At her home in the 4th Ward in this city 6:05 a.m., Wednesday, April 15, 1903, of paralysis, Mrs. Catherine Floyd Correll, aged nearly 89 years. Deceased was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, August 11, 1814, and in early life moved to Wayne County, Ohio, where she was married on March 19, 1839 to Jacob Correll. She came with her husband and family to Iowa in 1852 and in 1855 settled on a farm on Berlin Township, Clinton County, Iowa, where she resided until 1894, two years after the death of her husband on June 16, 1892, when she moved to Maquoketa. Deceased was an excellent woman, the mother of a large family and always devoted to her domestic affairs. Six of her eight children survive her, to-wit: A. B. Correll and Maria Correll, Maquoketa, D. H. Correll, Marion, Samuel and Levi Correll, Parsons, Kansas, David Correll, Odebolt, Iowa. Always conscientious and God fearing it was in her 85th year that Mrs. Correll joined the Reformed Church of this city and remained a faithful member to her death. The funeral will take place from the home at 9 o’clock Saturday, Rev. D. F. Boomershine officiating. The remains will be laid to rest beside her husband in the Berlin Township Cemetery.