Eliza Jane (Dunaway) Simpson (1915)

DUNAWAY, GEARHART, LOOMIS, SIMPSON, STERLING, WHITE, WRIGHT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 11/24/2010 at 19:35:13

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 10, 1915
Page 2

Peru News

Mrs. Eliza Simpson, an old settler of Barney, died on Saturday Jan. 31st and funeral services were held Tuesday. Interment was in the Barney Cemetery.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 3, 1915
Page 8, Column 1

COUNTY NEWS – Barney

Mrs. Eliza Simpson died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Wright, Sunday, January 31. She leaves a large family to mourn her loss.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 10, 1915
Page 3, Column 3

Mrs. Samuel Simpson passed away at her home in Barney, Iowa, January 31, 1915, aged 80 years, 7 months and 23 days.

Eliza Gunnaway (sic) was born near Glasgow, Kentucky, June 8, 1834. She moved to Iowa in 1850 where on June 14, 1857 she was married to Samuel Simpson. To this union are born twelve children, seven sons and five daughters. All are living except Noah who died September 3, 1902. The husband and father passed away December 16, 1908.

The surviving children are Jerome, of Diagonal; John of Macksburg; Virgil of Elliott, Iowa; Jesse, of Fullerton, Nebraska; Mrs. Bertha Gearhart, of Lorimor; Mrs. Hattie White of Earlham; Mrs. Anna Sterling of Pleasantville, Iowa; Mrs. Mary Wright, Mrs Bessie Loomis, Charles and Pascal Simpson, of Barney.
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Coordinator's note: Full maiden name taken from 1857 Marion County Marriage Record.

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