DALTON, Maggie Ellen Lewis

DALTON, GALLIHER, WRIGHT, HAMILTON, KEMP, SCOTT, HAROLD, LINVILLE, RHOADES, BOYER, MURPHY, SMOUSE, ROSS, BAKER, LEWIS, BARNETT, STRANATHAN, HARVEY

Posted By: Jeffrey L Wiatt (email)
Date: 7/9/2006 at 13:39:10

The Malvern Leader 21 October 1926

DEATH CLAIMS MRS. C. E. DALTON

Beloved Glenwood Woman is Called by Death Angel.

Mrs. H. A. Galliher was called to Glenwood last week by the death of her mother, Mrs. C. E. Dalton. The Glenwood Opinion had the following account of the life of this good woman;
Funeral services for Mrs. C. E. Dalton were held from the Christian church Wednesday afternoon. The services were in cahrge of the pastor, Rev. A. A. Wright. Music was furnished by a quartet consisting of Harry Hamilton, F. V. Kemp, George Scott and Otis Harold with May Linville at the piano. The casket was banked with flowers and the church filled with neighbors and friends both of which bespoke of the place of affection in which this good woman was held by not only her family circle but by all who knew her. She had been a patient sufferer for many years and the summons of the death angel which came in the early hours Monday brought her release from her earthly sufferings. While in her passing there is left a void in that family circle yet those nearest have the remembrance of the faithful devotion of a true wife, a kind and loving mother and a sympathetic friend to all who were in need.
The body was taken to the East Liberty cemetery for burial on the family lot. Those who served as pallbearers were R. W. Rhoades, Mahlan Boyer, Thomas Murphy, T. L. Smouse, J. L. Ross and M. L. Baker.
Maggie Ellen, daughter of George W. and Marie Lewis was born September 23, 1857, and lived all of her life in Mills County. At the age of 15 she united with the church and her life was a worthy exemplification of the teachings of He who said, "I come not to be ministered unto but to minister." On October 21, 1887 she married Charles E. Dalton and to them were born twelve children, six of whom have preceded her in death, three of these died in infancy; a daughter. Faye, died at the age of thirteen years, another daughter, Ethel, died March 7, 1918 and a son, Clay, died November 24, 1914. She is survived by her husband, four daughters, Eva Barnett of Mt. Vernon, Wash., Mabel Stranathan of Glenwood, Grace Galliher of Malvern, Gertrude Murphy of Shenandoah and two sons, Charles of Eugene, Oregon, and Gail of Glenwood. There are also twenty-six grandchildren and one great grandchild who survive her as well as three brothers and one sister, Mrs. D. W. Harvey of Malvern, Geo. W. Lewis of Blue Springs, Nebr., Henry Lewis of Callaway, Nebr., and Harvey of Tekamah, Nebr.