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Julia Ann (Lyons) Coryell (1931)

CORYELL, FLECK, LYONS, RICE, SHRIVER

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 10/20/2006 at 16:00:20

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 4, 1931
Page 1

Death of Mrs. Julia Coryell

Mrs. Julia Coryell, who has been critically ill, since she fell and broke her hip, two weeks ago, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alvin Shriver, early Saturday morning, May 30th. Mrs. Coryell was 88 years of age and had been residing in recent years with Mr. and Mrs. Shriver. She had been in fairly good health, until she fell and broke her hip, a short time ago.

Mrs. Coryell was born in Missouri, but went to Mahaska county, when she was a small child. She was married to Robert Coryell in 1893 and located on a farm in Scott township; they soon moved to Winterset however, and made their home here for many years. Mr. Coryell died in 1919, and since then his wife, has lived with her children.

She leaves a son, William of Harrisonville, Missouri; Mrs. Alta Fleck of Newton and Mrs. Shriver of Winterset. She is also survived by six grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a number of other relatives.

The Rev. Paul Main Fowler, pastor of her church, the Presbyterian, conducted her services, Monday, June 1st, at Tidrick’s funeral home, at 1:30 o’clock. Following this the body was taken to Newton, for burial.

More details of her life may be found in the mortuary column.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, June 4, 1931
Page 10

MORTUARY

Mrs. Julie Ann Coryell

Julia Ann, daughter of James and Matilda Rice Lyons was born in Holt County, Missouri, on May 17, 1843. Her mother died when she was six years old and she came to Iowa to live with an uncle in Mahaska County. She made her home with her uncle until she was married to Robert V. Coryell, March 16, 1862. To this marriage three children were born, William now living at Harrisonville, Mo., Mrs. Alta Fleck of Newton and Mrs. Alvin Shriver of Winterset.

They lived for many years on the farm near Lighton, which Mrs. Coryell’s father had obtained from the government. They came to Madison County in 1893, moving first to a farm in Scott township, but soon after moving to Winterset.

Mr. Coryell passed away in 1919 and since then Mrs. Coryell has made her home with her children.

She united with a Presbyterian church near her home in 1867 and after coming to Madison County transferred her membership to the Presbyterian church at Winterset. She has been a sincere earnest Christian through all the years. When her children were small the sincerest expression of her Christianity was in caring for them and training them to serve God. After the children were grown she, in her quiet way gave more and more of her time to the service of her church and to acts of kindness to her neighbors.

In her later years as her health failed she forgot many things but the songs of the church were always in her mind, and just a short time before her death she sang entirely through “I Need Thee Every Hour.”

She has been making her home with Mrs. Shriver in Winterset in the later years and she continued fairly active physically until her hip was broken in a fall two weeks before her death, which occurred on May 30th, 1931, at the age of 88 years. She leaves besides her three children, six grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a number of other relatives.

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