May Plummer Burgess

PLUMMER, BURGESS, STONEKING, SCOTT, LUNDQUIST, TODD, ZADNICHEK, STARK, THOMPSON, ANDERSON, MAHER, NUTTER

Posted By: Louis Zadnichek II (email)
Date: 5/16/2005 at 09:56:53

The following newspaper obituary for my great-grandmother May Plummer Burgess appeared many years ago in the Cedar Rapids, IA, paper. () are my genealogical additions.

May Burgess, 93, widow of William A. Burgess and a lifelong resident of this vicinity, died Thursday (December 29, 1960) in the home of a daughter, Mrs. J.P. (Alta) Scott, 1716 Sixteenth St. NW.

The daughter of Milton B. and Charlotte (Stoneking) Plummer, she was born in Linn County on July 14, 1867. Her father was a Civil War veteran (Company I, 20th Regiment, Iowa Infantry) and Postmaster at Bertram for many years.

Survivors include three other daughters, Clara Lundquist and Edna Todd, both of Cedar Rapids, and Bessie Zadnichek of Racine, Wis.; two brothers, Ed and William Plummer, both of Cedar Rapids; five sisters, Stata Stark, Cedar Rapids, Belle Thompson and Laura Anderson, both of Mt. Vernon, Myrtie Maher, Crystal Lake, Ill., and Hattie Nutter, Salinas, Calif.; 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1918 (? another family source says 1927).

(She was preceded in death by one son, Earl Burgess.)

Services: Beatty-Beurle's at 1 p.m. Tuesday. Burial: Campbell Cemetery on Mt. Vernon Road. Friends may call at the chapel after 7 p.m. Friday.

(She was buried next to her husband William A. Burgess who was born in Memphis, TN. He was a Linn County veterinarian.)

I would appreciate hearing from any descendents of May Plummer Burgess.

Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, Alabama