Lyda (Ford) Oldham (1924)

MCDONALD, OLDHAM, PENNINGTON, WINTER

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 3/24/2015 at 11:45:24

Winterset Madisonian
Thursday, December 18, 1924
Page 8, Column 5

Mortuary

Mrs. Lyda Ford Oldlham was born in Buchanan county, Missouri, Feb 18, 1845 and passed away at the home of her daughter, Ida, near Winterset, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1924, being almost 80, years of age. The husband and father preceded her In death eight years ago on Christmas morning.

She was married to Thomas B. Oldham in Highland, Kans. Sept.. 25, 1866, living at Wathena, Kans., for 25 years; then at Severance, Kans., until the death of her husband, after which she made her home with her children. To this union were born six children: Lucy, Albert and Mary, who died in infancy; Mrs. Ida McDonald of Winterset, Iowa; Mrs. Alice Pennington of Lincoln, Nebr., and the youngest, Mrs. Minnie Winter of St. Joe, Mo., who died Aug. 18, 1917. There are two grandchildren and one great grandchild, three brothers and one sister, a large number of other relatives and a host of friends, who will mourn the departure of this mother, friend and counselor.

She has been almost a lifetime member of. the M. E. church, and was faithful in attending services as long as her health permitted, being called upon to endure the great affliction of almost total blindness during the last nine years of her life, which she bore with great patience and without a murmur of complaint.

A short service was held at the R. L. McDonald home at one p. m. Monday, conducted by Rev. Marshal Hulbert of the Worthington M. E. church. The remains, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. R. L. McDonald and Mrs. Alice Pennington, were then taken to Severance, Kans, for interment.