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Margaret Blair (1943)

BLAIR, CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS, SHEARER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 9/1/2006 at 20:36:14

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, March 10, 1943

MRS. MARGARET BLAIR DIED LAST SATURDAY

Long-Time Resident Passes at Home of Daughter Near Barney

Mrs. Margaret Blair, a life-long resident of Adair and Madison counties, died last Saturday, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clint Cunningham of Barney. She was 84 years of age.

Mrs. Blair was the former Margaret Thomas, daughter of Thell and Elizabeth Thomas, and was born Feb. 24, 1859, at Harbor Hill in Adair county. She was married on Sept. 24, 1874, to Jeremiah Blair of Stuart.

They were the parents of four children, a son who died in infancy; another son who died in 1937, and two daughters who survive their mother. Her husband died in 1925.

She is survived by the two daughters, Mrs. Bessie Cunningham of Barney and Mrs. Minnie Shearer of Winterset; three granddaughters, and two grandsons.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from Anderson's home for funerals here, in charge of the Rev. Tom Foglesong, pastor of the Winterset Church of Christ. Burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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