Allspaugh, Ida Mae – 1864-1907

ALLSPAUGH, HILL, JOHNSON, SMITH

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:27

Obituary of Mrs. Wm. Allspaugh
Ida Mae Allspaugh died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hill, near Baxter, Monday evening, Jan. 21, 1907, of heart failure.
Quite a crowd of friends and neighbors had been invited to an n oyster supper. While playing a game, Mrs. Allspaugh suddenly threw up her hands and said she was sick; then, without a moment’s notice, she was gone. Friends thinking she had only fainted gathered round her and tried to restore her to life. It was about two hours before a physician arrived, and on examination found she had been dead a long time.
The remains were brought to her own home, four miles east of Baxter on Tuesday. She was born in Toulon, Henry county, Illinois, June 17, 1864, and was forty-three years, seven months and four days of age at her death.
At fourteen years of age she became a member of the M. E. church, but for the past ten years has been a faithful member of the Congregational church at Baxter. She will be greatly missed by her neighbors, as well as the church and Sunday school. She was a loving wife and mother.
She leaves, besides her husband, Wm. Allspaugh, two daughters, Mable, aged eighteen, and Hazel, aged fifteen years; a mother, four sisters and two brothers. The mother, Mrs. G. L. Smith; and three sisters, Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Edna and Sadie Smith, all of Genoa, Nebraska, Emma Smith, of York, Nebraska; brothers, Henry Smith, of Los Angeles, California, and Rev. Frank Smith, of Portland, Oregon.
Those attending the funeral from a distance were: Mrs. Wm. Johnson and Miss Edna Smith of Genoa, Nebraska.
The funeral services were held at the house on Thursday morning at ten o’clock, January 24th, conducted by Rev. Blanford of Baxter. The interment was in the Newton cemetery.
Source: Newton (IA) Journal; January 30, 1907