Eliza (Stiles) Forney (1936)

BROWNE, FORNEY, MCANDREWS, STILES

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 1/7/2012 at 10:24:17

Winterset Madisonian – June 18, 1936
Pg 9
News of Interest from St. Charles

MRS. ELIZA STILES FORNEY FORMER RESIDENT, DIES IN KANSAS AT AGE OF 83 YEARS

Mrs. M. W. Browne received word last week of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Eliza Stiles Forney, 83, at her home in Cherokee, Kansas. Mrs. Forney was the wife of Dr. Forney, one of the pioneer doctors of St. Charles and many of the older residents recall the time when he was their family doctor. She was a sister of the late Mrs. Savannah McAndrews and Capt. Thomas Stiles, for many years a resident of Winterset. Mrs. Forney was the last of a family of eleven children and for many years after moving to Kansas, came back to attend the Old Settlers reunion at St. Charles, an occasion which she greatly enjoyed.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, Jun 11, 1936
Page 8, Column 8

St. Charles

Mrs. Walter Browne received word that her aunt, Mrs. Eliza Forney, had died at the home of her son Joseph Forney in Oklahoma last Thursday, and that funeral services and burial was made last Saturday at Cherokee, Kansas.

Mrs. Forney was well known to the older residents of St. Charles and vicinity. She is the last of the Stiles family, Capt. Tom Stiles was her brother. Mrs. Forney was born in Putnam county, Indiana, and came with her parents to Warren county, settling near the present site of Martensdale.

She was married to Dr. L. J. Forney in 1869 in St. Charles where he was practicing medicine with Dr. A. B. Smith who also had married a Stiles. After a few years practicing their profession in St. Charles they moved to Winterset where they continued the medical profession.

Dr. and Mrs. Forney moved to Cherokee, Kansas, where Dr. Forney died many years ago. Mrs. Forney has often returned on Old Settlers day while her sister, Mrs. Savannah McAndrew, lived in St. Charles.

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