PERRY, Ida May (Whitney) 1856-1929
PERRY, WHITNEY, BENNETT, FRANK
Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 4/1/2011 at 12:59:37
Ida May (Whitney) Perry 1856-1929
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FORMER RESIDENT OF OSAGE DIES IN WEST AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Osage, Oct. 29 – The body of Mrs. W. A. Perry, who died Tuesday in Pasadena, California, is being brought to Osage this week for burial. Mrs. Perry was born April 10, 1856 in Watertown, Wisconsin, coming to Burr Oak township with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Whitney in 1873.
She was married to William A. Perry December 25, 1878. To this union were born two children; Anna, who was killed in the cyclone that swept Burr Oak 35 years ago and Grace Perry of Pasadena.
Mr. Perry was killed soon after his daughter Anna’s death, when his sleeve caught in the belting of a gasoline engine.
In 1901, Mrs. Perry went to Watertown, Wisconsin to live and in 1924 joined her daughter, Grace, in Pasadena. She was stricken with paralysis 10 months ago.
Mason City Globe Gazette, Tuesday October 29, 1929
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Ida May (Whitney) Perry was born April 10, 1856, the daughter of Clark Marshall Whitney and his first wife Harriet Bennett. Her mother died in 1859 in Watertown, Wisconsin. After her mothers’ death, her father married Nancy (nee Frank) Helmer.
She married William Perry, the son of John and Elizabeth Perry.They are both buried in the Osage, Mitchell, Cemetery
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