Mary S. (Womack) Oglesbee (1916)
DANIELS, OGLESBEE, RYAN, SHETTERLY, WOMACK
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 1/17/2011 at 09:25:45
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
January 12, 1916
Page 4Peru
MRS. LEVI OGLESBEE
The body of Mrs. Levi Oglesbee, who died at the M. E. hospital in Des Moines on the 4th, was brought here Wednesday morning and taken to the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Ross Shetterly, where short funeral services were held, conducted by Rev. Milholland. Interment was in the Peru cemetery.
Those who came from Des Moines with the body were: the husband, Levi Oglesbee; Ed Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hollingsworth, Ruth Hoover and John Ryan, son of the deceased; two grandchildren, Claire and Berry Daniels of Hebron.
________________________The East Peru Mail
East Peru, Iowa
Friday, January 7, 1916
Page 7, Column 3THE DEATH OF MRS. LEVI OGLESBEE
Mrs. Levi Oglesbee, grandmother of Mrs. Ross Shetterly, died at her home in Des Moines Jan. 4th. The body was brought to Peru for interment in the Peru cemetery. The funeral was held at the home of Ross Shetterly Wednesday forenoon conducted by Rev. Milholland. The following obituary was read a the funeral:
Mary Oglesbee was born March 25th, 1844, in Illinois, died at her home in Des Moines January 4th, 1916, aged 71 years 9 months and 9 days. Was married to Levi Oglesbee in 1880. She leaves to mourn her loss her aged companion and three children—one daughter and two sons. 11 grand children and two great grand children; 3 brothers and other relatives and friends.
Those who came from Des Moines to attend the funeral of Mrs. Oglesbee were the husband, Levi Oglesbee, Ed. Hoover, John Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hollingsworth and Miss Ruth Hoover, and Claire and Darie Daniels of Hebron, Iowa.
________________________Coordinator's note: Maiden name taken from daughter Mary Ellen's Madison County Marriage Record.
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