FULTON, Beatrice L. 1865 - 1943

FULTON, LEGGETT, MCKEE, MOSS, CUNNINGHAM

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 5/24/2022 at 19:19:11

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Saturday, May 29, 1943
Page SIX, Column 4

MRS. FULTON DIES IN OHIO
Funeral at Kent Sunday afternoon; no service in Fairfield

Funeral services for Mrs. C. J. FULTON, 78, will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. from a Kent, Ohio funeral home. The remains will be cremated and brought to Fairfield to be interred at some undetermined place at a future date. There will be no services in Fairfield it was stated.

Mrs. FULTON passed away at Kent, Ohio, Friday morning May 28, at 8:30 a.m. after an illness since April 10. She was born in 1865 in Centerville, Iowa.

Surviving is one son R. C. LEGGETT of this city; two daughters, Dr. Elizabeth A. LEGGETT of Kent, Ohio, with whom she made her home the last few years, and Mrs. Edwin F. McKEE of St. Paul, Minn.; and by one sister Mrs. D. B. MOSS of Palmyra, Mo.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Thursday, June 3, 1943
Page FOUR, Column 6

Memorial Services For Mrs. C. J. FULTON To Be Here Saturday

A memorial service will be held for the late Mrs. Beatrice L. FULTON at the Weston Behner funeral home next Saturday, June 5th, at 5:00 p.m.

Mrs. R. S. Galer, Mt. Pleasant, will conduct the service. Mrs. FULTON's friends are welcome to attend. It has been requested that no flowers be sent.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Friday, June 4, 1943
Page TWO, Columns 7 and 8

RELATIVES ARRIVE FOR FULTON SERVICES

Dr. Elizabeth A. LEGGETT of Kent, Ohio, will arrive tonight to attend the memorial service for her mother, the late Mrs. C. J. FULTON. Dr. LEGGETT will stay at the R. C. LEGGETT home while in Fairfield.

Mrs. D. B. MOSS, Mr. LEGGETT's aunt and her husband Dr. MOSS of Palmyra, Mo., arrived this afternoon and will stay with the Wilson Reeds until after the services.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Tuesday, June 8, 1943
Page SEVEN, Column 4

PROBATE OF WILL

State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss:

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Notice is hereby given that an instrument, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Beatrice C. FULTON, Deceased is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, and that Saturday, July 3, A. D. 1943 at 9:30 o'clock A. M. has been set for proof and final hearing of same.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 8th day of June, 1943.

W. S. Parkin, Clerk of District Court,
June 8, 15, 22.

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"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Thursday, June 10, 1943
Page SIX, Columns 7 and 8

OBITUARY

Beatrice L. FULTON

Beatrice CUNNINGHAM, the second daughter of Pliny F. and Marietta S. CUNNINGHAM, was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, on the 16th day of February, 1865, and departed this life at Akron, Ohio, on May 28th, 1943 aged seventy-eight years. She received her primary education in the public schools of Centerville, Iowa, and her collegiate training at Parsons College from which institution she graduated in June, 1885.

On September 5th, 1885, she was married to Charles D. LEGGETT of Fairfield, Iowa. To this union were born eight children, four of whom attained their majority. A son, Richard C. LEGGETT of Fairfield, Iowa, a daughter Mrs. Ruth E. McKEE of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth A. LEGGETT of Kent, Ohio, survive her. Another son, Lt. George P. LEGGETT, was killed during the first World War by an airplane accident on January 29, 1919. Charles D. LEGGETT died April 4th, 1922.

On November 24, 1926, she was married to Charles J. FULTON of Fairfield, Iowa, who preceded her in death on December 6, 1937.

Mrs. FULTON was possessed of great energy and mental ability. From the year 1881, when she came to Fairfield as a college girl, she was always actively identified with the civic life of the community and she always retained her interest in this city. She was a charter member of the Elzevir Society of Parsons College of the Ladies Improvement Society, of the Fairfield Golf club, of the Wit and Wisdom Club, of the Shakespeare Club, of the Book Club and of the Bird club. As President of the Fairfield Woman's Club she was instrumental in the rehabilitation and furnishing of the McElhinny House. In 1940 she went to Kent, Ohio, to be with her daughter, Dr. Elizabeth A. LEGGETT, but she always retained her residence in Fairfield.

Mrs. FULTON's educational training and her acquaintance with current literature were unusual. She had reviewed many books and less than six weeks prior to ther death she gave a review of Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs" before the Woman's Club of Kent, Ohio. Her sympathetic and sincere interest in people and in public affairs made her a host of friends. Her influence will be greatly missed.

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Note: Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, IA, in Lot 2nd.053 with first husband Charles LEGGETT; second husband Charles FULTON is nearby in Lot 2nd.062.