Mary Elizabeth (Haynes) Buchanan (1934)
BUCHANAN, CARLSON, GROUT, HALL, HAYNES, SMILEY
Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 6/13/2007 at 19:35:25
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, July 26, 1934
Page 1Death of Mrs. George Buchanan
Funeral services for Mrs. George Buchanan who died last Tuesday, July 17th at St. Joseph’s hospital Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, were held Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the Ramsey-Richards funeral home in Winterset and were conducted by Dr. R. C. Cully, pastor of the Presbyterian church. Burial was in the Winterset cemetery.
Mrs. Buchanan, formerly Mary Elizabeth Haynes was born in Illinois, November 17, 1852 and in her early childhood moved with her parents to Madison county. She was married to George A. Buchanan December 18, 1884 and they were the parents of eight children, seven of whom survive her. They were Bertha Smiley and Floyd Buchanan of Curtis, Wisconsin, Lucy Hall of Medford, Wisconsin; Glenn Buchanan of Withee, Wisconsin; May Grout of Winterset; Bessie Carlson of Pomeroy and Otis Buchanan of Des Moines. She is also survived by eighteen grandchildren, five sisters and four brothers. She was preceded in death by a son Carl, April 4, 1915, and her husband, February 26, 1921.
______________________Abbotsford Tribune
Abbotsford, Wisconsin
Thursday, July 26, 1934Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Haynes Buchanan were held at the Curtiss Congregational church at 9:30 o’clock Thursday morning. Rev. W. P. Powell of Owen held the funeral services.
Mrs. Buchanan passed away July 17, 1934 at 9:30 P.M. at the St. Joseph hospital at Chippewa Falls of diabetes and infection which had set in.
Mrs. Buchanan had been born Mary Elizabeth Haynes in Illinois Nov. 17, 1862. In early childhood she moved with her parents to Madison county, Iowa. She accepted her Christ in early childhood and has remained a sincere Christian her entire life. She was a member of the Curtiss Congregational church and the Helping Hand Society. She was united in marriage Dec. 18, 1884 to George A. Buchanan. To this union was born eight children, seven of whom survive her. Her husband preceded her in death Feb. 26, 1921 and a son Carl April 4, 1915. After the death of her husband she moved to Curtiss with her son Floyd with whom she made her home.
The relatives that survive her are her children, Mrs. Bertha Smiley and Floyd of Curtiss, Glen of Withee, Mrs. Lucy Hall of Medford, Mrs. Mary Grout, Winterset, Iowa; also five sisters, four brothers and eighteen grand-children.
Burial took place Saturday in the Winterset cemetery, Iowa.
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