Eleanor (Whitmore) Payne (1908)

CRAIG, PAYNE, ROBERTS, WHETMORE, WHITMORE

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Date: 2/21/2010 at 09:12:55

Winterset Reporter
June 11, 1908
Page 3

St. Charles

The aged mother of Mrs. Geo. Craig, of Ohio township, and Mr. Payne, of Indianola, and the grandmother of Walter Craig, deputy clerk of Madison county, was buried at Truro last Friday. She was past eighty-two years of age, her husband dying in California a few years ago at a ripe old age, since which time she has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. G. H. Craig, of Ohio township. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W. F. Graham, of St. Charles.
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Winterset Madisonian
June 4, 1908
Page 8

Northeast Ohio

Mrs. Eleanor Paine, mother of Mrs. George Craig, died this morning very suddenly at the Craig home aged 82 years. Mrs. Paine had been in her usual health and the news of her death will be a surprise to her many friends.
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Winterset Madisonian
June 11, 1908
Page 8

Truro

Mrs. Eleanor Payne, who has been making her home with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. Craig, north of town, died quite suddenly last Thursday morning. Funeral was held at the house Friday at 10:30 by Rev. Graham and interment made in the Young cemetery.
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Winterset Madisonian
June 18, 1908

Eleanor Wetmore Payne died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Craig, in Ohio township, June 4th, 1908, age 81 years, 9 months and 22 days. She was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, and on December 22, 1844, was married to D. M. Payne. To them were born eleven children, six of whom survive her, being E. E. and Ora M. Payne, residing in California, Joseph W. Payne, residing in Montana, C. G. Payne, of Indianola, Iowa, Sophira Roberts, of North Platte, Nebraska, and Mrs. George Craig, of Truro, Iowa.

In 1867 the family moved to Warren county, Iowa, where they continued to reside almost continuously until in 1893 when they moved to Mitchell county, Kansas. Three years later being left alone by the death of their youngest son they gave up housekeeping and made their home for a time with a daughter in Wyoming and afterwards with their two sons in California. In 1903 her husband died and in August 1907, she returned to Iowa and had since made her home with her daughter, Mrs. George Craig, of this county.

She was a woman who was blessed with unusual good health and especially was this true during the last few years of her life, her last illness lasting but a few hours. She will long be remembered by those who knew her well as a bright and cheerful old lady being, as she was, a person who never took a melancholy view of life and always endeavored to make others happy as well as to gain happiness herself.

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