Nellie May Stanton (1887-1943)

STANTON, GRAVES, HOLYOKE, RUTENBECK, FAYRAM, WERDEN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 11/19/2009 at 20:22:45

Maquoketa Community Press, July 8, 1943

Nellie May Stanton-
Funeral services were held this Thursday afternoon in the Monmouth church for Mrs. James Stanton, 55, who died following an operation Tuesday morning. The Rev. C. Edward Holyoke officiated. Interment was made in the Monmouth cemetery.

Nellie May, third child of Harry and Jessie Graves was born south of Baldwin, August 24, 1887. On February 26, 1907, she was united in marriage to James Stanton. To this union, three children were born.

The first ten years of their married life was lived in Lost Nation where Mr. Stanton was engaged in blacksmithing. About 1917, they located on the farm south of Monmouth, which for the most part has since been her home.

Mrs. Stanton had always enjoyed fair health. Of late years she had been troubled now and then with cholecystitis, and submitted to an operation Tuesday morning from which she never regained consciousness. Death came at 8:15 o’clock.

She is survived by her husband, three children, Earl of Lost Nation, Mrs. Helen Rutenbeck of Maquoketa, James, Jr. at home, her father Harry Graves of Baldwin, two brothers, Floyd Graves and Charlie Graves of Baldwin, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Fayram of Monmouth, Mrs. Jessie Werden of Baldwin, six grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.

She was a member of the First Evangelical and Reformed Church of Maquoketa, uniting with her husband in April 1933. She was active in all improvement enterprises, a worker in the Methodist aid of Monmouth, a valued leader in 4-H groups.