ALFREY, Martha Ellen Allumbaugh

ALLUMBAUGH, ALFREY, PARKER, CLINE, COOL

Posted By: Roseanna Zehner (email)
Date: 11/7/2006 at 08:47:09

Mills County Tribune
Thursday February 12, 1920

Mrs. T.F. Alfrey

Hastings mourns the passing of one of her good women, Mrs. T.F. Alfrey, who has swelt among them the past twenty-two years. During a score of those years she was cheerful and in apparent good health. The four children had married and established homes of their own.

About two years one daughter, Mrs. Cliff Parker, died after a brief illness and the mother was never herself afterwards. Her friends noted her decline. She was taken to a hospital for treatment and though she got able to return home, the doctors had failed to give her permanent relief.

After lingering a few months, death came on Friday, February 6, and released the spirit from the failing body.

She was a Christian woman, taking an active part in all church activities as long as her strength permitted. She was devoted to her family and in her quiet way won many friends.

Martha Ellen Allumbaugh was born in Fulton County, Ill. October 20, 1856, and died in her home at Hastings, Ia., February 6, 1920.

She was united in marriage with T.F. Alfrey on February 24, 1876. To this union five children were born: Mrs. Ollie Cline, Jeffers, Minn., Wm. A. Alfrey of Sioux City, Ia., Grover C. Alfrey of Orcutt, Calif., Minnie Alfrey, who died in 1891, aged 10 years, and Mrs. Nellie Parker of Hastings, who passed away in December, 1918.

Besides the husband, daughter and two sons, Mrs. Alfrey is survived by two brothers, B.F. Allumbaugh, of Boise, Ida., W.H. Allumbaugh of Stockton, Calif., and a half-brother, Milton Cool of Boise, Ida.