Elizabeth (Keffer) Huffman (1920)

HUFFMAN, KEFFER, LEE, BARNETT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/17/2012 at 06:48:13

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
February 5, 1920, page 4

ELIZABETH HUFFMAN

Elizabeth Keffer was born Dec. 15, 1831 in the State of Indiana. She with her parents, came to Iowa in 1856. On Jan. 16, 1858 she was united in marriage to Thomas Huffman. To this union were born seven children, three having preceded her in death: Sarah Eliza, who died in infancy; George C. who died in 1901 and Mrs. Hattie Lee in 1896. The remaining ones are Samuel G. and Elmer of Truro, Mrs. Allie Lee of Thayer and Mrs. Ida Barnett of Denver, Colo. Besides these she leaves three brothers, 22 grand children and eight great grandchildren to mourn her loss.

The greater part of her life was spent on their farm near Truro. In 1910 they moved to Truro, where her husband died April 21, 1912. In August 1915, she went to Thayer to make her home with her daughter, where she remained until she peacefully passed away, Jan. 27, 1920, after a brief illness.

She with her husband, united with the Christian church of Truro more than 40 years ago and remained a true Christian until the end.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Raybour of Thayer and the body taken to the New Virginia cemetery and laid beside her husband.

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