PENNEY, Evabel Viola (nee Knechtges) 1900-1969
PENNEY, FISH, KNECHTGES
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/13/2009 at 13:25:45
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OSAGE - Evabell** Viola Penney died Tuesday May 22, 1969. She was born May 7, 1900 to Henry and Lillian (Fish) Knechtges.
She married S. Earl. Penney September 29, 1921 in Charles City, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister Ethel, and son, Dean in 1962
Survivors include her husband; one son, Stephen "Gregg" Penney of Richfield, Minnesota; one sister Luella (William) Young, Osage, and four grandchildren.
**Sometimes her name, Evabel, is spelled with one L and sometimes with two L's.
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#2:Mrs. Earl S. Penney
OSAGE -- Services for Mrs. Earl S. Penney, 69, who died Thursday night at the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the United Methodist Church; burial in the Osage Cemetery; Champion Funeral Home is in charge.
OBITUARY FROM WATERLOO COURIER,
SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1969:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#3: (Biographical sketch)Eva was born in 1900 the daughter of Henry J. Knechtges and Lillian Lula Fish. She died May 22, 1969 and is buried at Osage.
Earl's grandparents were Arthur and Harriet (Wallace_ Penney and Stephen and Ann (Triggs) Taylor. Arthur was born May 29, 1823 in Dorsetshire, England, the son of William and Elizabeth Penney. He died January 11, 1895 in Liberty Township and is buried at the Stacyville Cemetery in Union Township, southwest of Stacyville. Harriet Wallace was born December 7, 1920, also in England. She died in 1911 and is buried at Stacyville, also. They had 14 children, seven survived Arthur.
Steven Taylor was born in Sigford, Ilsington Parish, England on March 18, 1824, the son of Joseph Taylor and Fanny Payne. At the age of 11 he was bound out to the age of 21 because of the financial circumstances of his father. At the age of 30 he came to the US, settling in Diamond Lake, Illinois. He came to Mitchell County in 1856, settling north of what is now Stacyville. HE died April 21, 1919. Both he and Ann are buried in Libertyville, Illinois. They had been married March 20 1862 at Diamond Lake, IL. And had been married before and had two children from her first marriage. They had four children, on of which, Dr. L. L. Taylor, lived at Libertyville, Illinois. Anna had a sister, Fannie, also a brother, Charles Wesley, who died before his father in an automobile accident'.
Eva Belle Knechtges's father, Henry J,. was born March 27, 1864 in Springfield, Dane Co., Wisconsin, the son of Paul and Mary Magdelena (Loge) Knechtges, natives of Germany. The Knechtges family moved to Charles City, Iowa when Henry was two years old. He married Florence Lillian Fish on September 29, 1885 in Charles City, Iowa. She was born August 3, 1958 in South Dover, Maine the daughter of Nathaniel Fish and Nancy Shepard. The Fish family came to Iowa in March 1889. Henry died November 14, 1935 in Osage. Florence died March 8, 1956 in Osage. Both are buried in the Osage Cemetery. Eva had three sisters, Luella (Mrs. William Young) Rebecca, who died at the age of four, and Ethel, who died in February 1934.
Nathaniel and Nancy (Shepard Fish had seven children besides Florence, they were" Ralph of St. Cloud, Minnesota. Mrs. J. M. Littlefield of Belt, Montana, Mrs. L. B. French of Frazee, Minnesota, Mrs. Jas. Hiller of Charles City, Mrs. W. R. Nicol of Osage, and Howard of Osage. One son, Herbert, died while serving in the Civil War. Nathaniel and Nancy were married in May 1839 in Dover, Maine. Nathaniel was born May 15, 1812 in China, Maine and died April 18, 1904. He served about one year in the army in 1837. Nancy died in 1883. They had lived on farms in Worth and Mitchell Counties before moving to Osage in 1882.
By Frances Morse
[Mitchell County History, pub. 1989, p. 393]
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