BRYAN, Anna (Annie) E. Copeland 1863-1947

BRYAN, COPELAND, SMITH, CLAYWELL

Posted By: Richard K Thompson (email)
Date: 11/13/2010 at 08:29:41

Fairfield Daily Ledger
Thursday February 6, 1947

FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie (sic. original given name was Anna) E. BRYAN, 83, former resident of Fairfield, will be held at the Hoskins funeral home Saturday at 1:30 p.m. Rev. S. P. Williamson will officiate and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

Mrs. BRYAN passed away in Wenona, Illinois, where she had made her home for the past several years. She had been in failing health for some time.

She was born March 1, 1863, in Cadiz Junction, Ohio, the daughter of the late Samuel and Mary E. COPELAND. She came to Fairfield with her parents in 1890 and lived here several years.

In 1894 she married John T. BRYAN, who preceded her in death in 1919.

Mrs. BRYAN is survived by two children: Zella M. SMITH, Wenona, Illinois, and Harold C. BRYAN, Chicago. One son, Roy L. BRYAN, passed away in 1937. She is also survived by the following: two brothers, Samuel A. and John H. COPELAND, both of Fairfield; one sister, May L. CLAYWELL, Colville, Washington; and six grandchildren including Ted SMITH, Fairfield.

Two sisters and one brother preceded her in death.

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*Transcribed for genealogy purposes. I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Transcriber note: The headstone for Annie E BRYAN at Evergreen Cemetery (2nd.103) in Fairfield, Iowa had 1947 as the death year, while cemetery records and a subsequent cemetery transcriptions (on paper and online) put the date as being February 8, 1946. Because she died in Illinois, as it turns out, local genealogists' didn't have the means to reconcile the dates. Her Illinois death certificate was found by a Find A Grave researcher recently and it has since been used to determine the death date was Feb. 5, 1947 and the burial date was Feb. 8, 1947. This obituary was then located in the newspaper microfilm records at the Fairfield Public Library and is transcribed for this entry. //rkt

Additional note: Annie's parents and at least three siblings (Samuel A., John H. and Margaret "Maggie") are also buried at Evergreen Cemetery.