Mariah “Rita” (Boyles) Tullis (1927)

BARE, BOYLES, EPPERLY, RAMSAY, SEEVERS, TULLIS, WASSON

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Date: 1/31/2011 at 13:38:27

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1927
Page 6, Column 2

Death of Mrs. A. L. Tullis

Mrs. A. L. Tullis, a former resident of Winterset, and Madison county, died last Friday, at her home in Des Moines. Mrs. Tullis had been in poor health for the past five or six weeks.

Services were held at the home in Des Moines Saturday afternoon and the body was brought to Tidrick’s undertaking parlors, and services were conducted by Rev. F. Clare McCallon Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.

Mrs. Tullis was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Boyles and was born near Winterset sixty-nine years ago. She is survived by her husband, two sisters, and three of Mr. Tullis’ children, whom she helped to raise. A more complete history of her life may be found in the Mortuary column.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, April 14, 1927
Page 6, Column 5

Nita Boyles Tullis was born near Winterset January 11th, 1858, and died April 6th, 1927. Her parents were Phillip M. and Lydia Boyles, being members of a large family, who have all passed on except Mrs. Mary E. Seevers of Savannah, Missouri and Mrs. C. H. Bare of Pleasantville.

She attended the country school in Union township and the high school in Winterset, and taught in the rural schools in Union and Crawford townships in this county.

She was married to A. L. Tullis at the old home, June 8th, 1885 and while she had no children of her own, she mothered his family of four, especially Clifford and Cap, and an adopted daughter, Ethel West Tullis, now Mrs. Fred Epperly, her mother being Kittie Tullis, daughter of A. L. Tullis.

They moved to Des Moines in 1896 where they have since made their home.

She became a member of the Winterset Baptist church, when a young girl. After moving to Des Moines, she became active in the Highland Park Christian church, where she filled many offices in the church and Sunday School and was a life deaconess at the time of her death. She was known and loved by the whole membership from the oldest to the youngest, and was either “Mother Tullis” or “Grandma” to them all.

Mrs. Nellie Ramsay of Redfield and Mrs. Jehiel Wasson of Winterset are nieces, daughters of Milton Boyles, deceased.

Rev. F. Clare McCallon conducted a service for the Winterset friends, Sunday afternoon, April 10th, in the Tidrick Funeral home and burial was in the Winterset cemetery.
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Coordinator's note: Transcribed as published. The deceased is named "Mariah" in all the censuses of her early life (1860, 70, & 80). After marriage, she became "Rita" which is on her gravestone. The obituary erroneously had "Nita".

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