Mary Matilda (Turnbull) Vance (1924)
BOTEN, MANLY, MITCHELL, SIREN, TURNBULL, VANCE
Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:02:52
The Olathe Register
Olathe, Kansas
Wednesday, May 14, 1924
Page 8, Columns 1 & 2Mrs. E. L. Vance
The funeral services of the late Mrs. E. L. Vance was held in the First Presbyterian Church of Lee’s Summit on Monday afternoon, Rev. J. V. Bloom, pastor of the First Community Church, officiating. A quartet from the Community Church sang at the funeral. Burial was made in the Lee’s Summit cemetery.
Mrs. Vance was well known in Olathe. She and her husband lived here for a number of years. Mrs. Vance had a lot of friends. She was a woman of fine personality. One of her often expressed regrets in the last few months of her life was the fact of her absence from her old-time church friends in Olathe. She missed both them and her church. Mr. and Mrs. Vance moved to Lee’s Summit in order to be near some of her children.
Mrs. Vance was Mary Matilda Trumbull and was born in Princeton, Ill., April 26, 1856. She was married at Chatsworth, Illinois to Ephraim L. Vance in 1876. They were the parents of ten children, one of whom died in infancy. In 1902 they moved into the neighborhood of Lee’s Summit remaining there for ten years. They lived for a short time in the west and then in Olathe and vicinity until the fall of last year, when they returned to Lee’s Summit.
Mrs. Vance is survived by her husband and nine children. Mrs. Ira Hopkins, Mrs. T. J. Boten, Leonard and Merville Vance, of Lee’s Summit; Mrs. W. O. Manly, of Florida; Mrs. C. A. Mitchell, of Iowa; Mrs. A. N. Siren, of Kansas City; Roy Vance, of Kansas, and Leslie Vance of Nebraska.
The following Olathe people attended the funeral, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Brockway, Mrs. M. V. B. Parker, Mrs. L. W. Snepp, Mrs. J. All Evans, Miss Effie E. Parker, Miss Mollie Crist, H. C. Nowling, Mrs. J. V. Bloom.
_______________________Transcriber's note: Her maiden name, published here as "Trumbull" should be "Turnbull" per her Illinois Marriage Record and the 1870 Federal Census. The Vance family lived in Madison County for about 25 years, starting about 1880.
Gravesite
Madison Obituaries maintained by Linda Griffith Smith.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen