Elizabeth Jane (Kale) Oglesbee (1916)

KALE, LULL, MARTIN, OGLESBEE

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Date: 2/5/2011 at 08:11:21

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 28, 1916
Page 5

MRS. JOHN OGLESBEE

Mrs. John Oglesbee, one of the early settlers in the vicinity of East Peru, died at the old home, northeast of Peru, Sunday evening, following an illness of several months,.

Funeral services were held today at Peru.
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Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, June 28, 1916
Page 2, Column 1

Peru

The funeral of Mrs. Lizzie Oglesbee was held at the M. E. church Wednesday at 11 o'clock, conducted by. Rev. Corkhill. Interment at the Peru cemetery.
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The East Peru Mail
East Peru, Iowa
Friday, June 30, 1916
Page 1, Column 3

MRS. ELIZABETH OGLESBEE

We re-published the following obituary of Mrs. Oglesbee as an accommodation to the family:

The first of the week people thru this section were very much shocked and pained to learn of the sudden death of aunt Lizzie Oglesbee, which occurred the evening before, the 19th, from a stroke of apoplexy. She had been away from home visiting children in Des Moines and Patterson, and had arrived home that evening when the stroke came that closed her earthly life a few hours later.

She was a good woman, loved by all, whose love, generosity, and kindliness of heart was known by all. She passed from earth to the greater world mourned by large concourse of relatives and friends.

The funeral took place from the M. E. church Wednesday forenoon, Rev. C. K. Conkill Melcher officiating. Rev. Corkill delivered a fine discourse, and there is one thing about Rev. Corkill’s funeral sermons that while they are deep and impressive he never works upon or harrows up the feelings of the friends of the deceased in his closing remarks to them. The body was laid to rest in the Peru Cemetery beside the remains of her late husband, John Oglesbee.

The following obituary was read at the funeral:

Elizabeth Jane Kale was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, June 20, 1848, and died at her home near East Peru on Monday, June 19th, aged within one day of 68 years.

At the age of four years she moved with her parents to Madison county, Iowa, where she grew to womanhood. She was married to John Oglesbee Dec. 23d, 1866. To this union were born five children, viz: Lauretta, now Mrs. Len Lull of Patterson, Albertis of Woodburn, Luetta, now Mrs. John Martin of Des Moines, Vernie of Peru, and Zetta who died in infancy.

She was converted at an early age and became a member of the Elm Grove church. She was a member of the Alpha Rebeka Lodge No. 572 of Des Moines. She remained a faithful christian and a member of the lodge to the last. She had been visiting her children in Des Moines and Patterson and had just returned home when she was stricken with apoplexy and died in a few hours.

Besides her children and grand children she leaves to mourn her loss six sisters and three brother, all of whom reside in this State except three sisters, two in Kansas and one in Minnesota.

The brothers, sisters and children were with her, as well as other relatives when the last sad hour came.

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