Alda Lucretia Potter (1876-1902)

POTTER

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 3/6/2010 at 08:34:45

Bellevue Herald, reprinted in the Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, Oct. 9, 1902

Alda Lucretia Potter-
Death has claimed another and laid his cold hand upon the brow of one of Bellevue’s brightest and most highly respected young ladies in the person of Miss Alda Lucretia Potter, who departed this life at the Potter home at Paradise, on Sunday morning, September 21, 1902. Miss Potter was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Potter and a granddaughter of Elbridge Potter, the founder of Paradise, and during his life one of Jackson County’s most prominent citizens. Alda L. Potter was born at Paradise December 18, 1876, and here was reared to womanhood. She was a graduate of Bellevue High School, completing its course with the class of 1893. She was also a graduate of State Normal at Cedar Falls in the year 1897. She had been following teaching.

Potter Cemetery
 

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