Emma Griswold (1907)

GRISWOLD, WITHROW

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/19/2010 at 14:07:16

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Saturday, February 9, 1907
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Death of EMMA GRISWOLD

Well Known Teacher Succumbs to an Attack of Cerebral Hemorrhage. Was a Sister of E.B. Griswold of this Place

Miss Emma Griswold, well known by the teaching fraternity of Madison county, passed away at her home in Dexter, on Saturday evening, Feb. 9th, as the result of cerebral hemorrhage with which she was stricken on Thursday evening.

Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon from the Dexter Presbyterian church, her four brothers acting as pall bearers and the interment made at Penn Center cemetery.

Miss Griswold was a young woman of rare good character whose influence will be missed in the community in which she lived and the news of her death will cause deep sorrow where she was intimately known through her work as a teacher. She was born in Penn township, April 25th, 1872.
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Stuart Herald
Stuart, Iowa
Friday, Feb. 15, 1907

Death of a Former Teacher

Friday, word was received in this city from Dexter that Miss Emma Griswold was dead. She was reported to have died from the bursting of a blood vessel in her brain. Later it was learned that she was not dead, but could not recover. She died Saturday and was buried Monday. Several of her friends in this city attended the funeral.

Miss Griswold taught in our schools several years and greatly endeared herself to many people by the grace of her manners and sweetness of her disposition.

It is learned since the first reports of her death came that she was stricken with paralysis and the hemorrhage followed later.

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