COONRADT, Josephine "Josie" Gertrude (O'Banion) 1877-1962

COONRADT, OBANION, CROUCH, HOSSOM, DAVIS, LEAVETT

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 2/2/2011 at 13:21:41

Josephine “Josie” Gertrude (O’Banion) 1877-1962

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MRS. JOSIE COONRADT BURIED IN OSAGE

Osage – Interment services were held Wednesday in the Osage Cemetery for Mrs. Josie Coonradt, 84, widow of the Rev. Bert Coonradt. She died August 4, 1962 at Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Her husband was pastor of the Christian Church in Panora, Whitten, Cherokee, Pierson, Correctionville and Bayard. He died in 1944.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Owen (Lucille) Crouch, Johnson City, Tenn.; Mrs. Harold (Margaret) Hossom, Albuquerque, N. M.; and Mrs. Paul (Virginia) Davis, Falls Church, VA.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday August 9, 1962

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Josephine was the 2nd wife of Bert Henry Coonradt. His first wife Leona (Holt) Coonradt died in 1907 and is also buried in the Osage Cemetery.

#3—Census Records
1910 Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota
Bert H Coonradt 37 born Wisconsin
Josie 32 born Illinois

1920 US Census: Collins, Story, Iowa
Bert H Coonradt 436 born Wisconsin, minister
Josie G 41 born Illinois, father born Kentucky, mother New Hampshire
Ruth L 8 born Minnesota
Florence M 6 born Minnesota
Virginia A 1 born Iowa

1925 Iowa Census: Mapleton, Mona
Bert Coonradt, son of Salathiel Coonradt and Lillian Frost
Josie Coonradt, daughter of E.L. O’Banion and Frances O Leavit

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According to a family tree found on Ancestry
Josephine “Josie” O’Banion was born October 21, 1877, the daughter of Elias Logon O’Banion and Frances “Fanny” Adelaide Leavett
In 1900 the family of Elias O’Banion lived in Storm Lake, Buena Vista Co., Iowa and Josephine is listed as one of the children with a birth date of October 1877 in Illinois.