Elizabeth T. (Thornbrugh) Adams (1922)

ADAMS, THORNBRUGH, MCWRIGHT, EYNAN, COOK, WILCOX, COMPTON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 9/25/2007 at 21:59:18

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 15, 1922

ELIZABETH T. ADAMS

Elizabeth Thornbrugh, daughter of Cass and Emma Thornbrugh, was born June 11, 1898 and departed this life on March 5, 1922, thus being at the time of death 23 years,8 months and 24 days of age.

In September 1917, she was married to Henry McWright and to this union, was born a daughter, Geraldine.

On Feb 11, 1921, she was married to Harry Adams, who together with her little daughter and the father and mother, will feel most keenly this sorrow.

She also leaves four sisters: Mrs. Mabel Eynan of Jackson, Wyo.; Mrs. Iva Cook and Mrs. Nina Wilcox of Des Moines and Mrs. Grace Compton of Winterset; and three brothers: Lester of Denver, Colo.; Alvin of Pratt, Kans., and Lloyd of Winterset. Many friends will join with these and other relatives in holding in treasured memory the one who so suddenly passed away.

Funeral services were conducted from the Church of Christ Sunday afternoon at 1:30 by the minister of that church. Burial was made in the Baptist cemetery, northeast of Winterset.