Ebert, Mrs. Ursula (1843-1933)

EBERT, NEWMAN, BAILEY

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Date: 5/28/2025 at 19:52:58

Kossuth County Advance
Thursday, June 1st, 1933

AGED WHITTEMORE PIONEER IS DEAD.
By Lillian Heidenwith.

Whittemore, May 30 — Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Ursula Ebert at the local Methodist church, the Rev. A. H. Wood, Good Hope, officiating.

“Grandma Ebert,” as she was generally known, died Friday morning. She was up and around till a week or so before the end. She celebrated her 90th birthday March 17.

Mrs. Ebert was born at Alexander, Ohio, in 1843. When she was a young woman she visited a married sister in Illinois, and there met Mr. Ebert. They were soon married.

Mr. Ebert came to Iowa and too up a homestead where the town of Lone Rock now stands. He also bought 160 acres at a dollar an acre. Later he sold the land, relinquished the 80, and settled on the eighty where the Ebert home is still located. This was in 1866. Two years later his bride came to Iowa.

Mrs. Ebert’s life, as she often told it, sounded like a book. She said weeds were as high as the house. There was not a neighbor on the west as far as the river at Rodman, or on the south as far as the river, and only a few north and east. Whittemore had not yet been thought of, and Algona was struggling for existence. There was not a tree to be seen. Nothing was much in evidence except wolves.

Mr. and Mrs. Ebert reared a girl whose parents were dead. In due time she married, and she now lives in South Dakota. Mr. Ebert died many years ago, and since then Mrs. Ebert had lived with her son Carl, whose wife was formerly Bertha Newman. Carl farms southeast of Whittemore. Two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Bailey, Dodge Center, Minn., and Mrs. Hattie Bailey, Charles City, also survive.

Relatives from out-of-town here for the funeral were: the Mesdames Maggie Bailey; Mrs. Adelbert Naylor, Dodge Center; Julia Bailey, Mrs. Edw. Beeker, Mrs. Harold Bailey, Mrs. Clifford Bailey, and Morris Feitus, all of Charles City; Dr. and Mrs. A. T. Whitlow, Swea City; Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Ruske, Mrs. C. F. Ruske, and Frank, Marjorie, and Francis Bailey, Fenton.

Out-of-town friends were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lanthard and Mrs. Bernadine Juckens and a son, Mason City; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Newman and Mrs. Orville Hedrick, Sexton; Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Cotton, Lone Rock; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Newman, Mrs. Edw. Frahm, Ernest Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Sheppard, Jos. Shepard, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stephenson, Algona.

Pallbearers were the grandchildren: Leslie, Vernon, Harold and Clifford Bailey.

1933 90th Birthday News
 

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