Edith Penney

PENNEY, WHITE, SMITH

Posted By: Francile Cook (email)
Date: 11/7/2024 at 16:45:12

Holdenville Times Friday July 22, 1904. Holdenville, Indian Territory: Mrs. Penny was in Holdenville with her husband Oscar Penny who was the first Cashier at the Rock building on Main Street 1st Nat'l. Bank. Her brother, W. J. Smith was the president. The Penny's were staying with W. J. Smith in the home he built on 8th st. (The old Hudson's Funeral Home) when she passed. They held her funeral in Holdenville, Indian Territory and shipped her body via Train back to Osage, Iowa their old home place. Mrs. Edith Tressider White Penny's family are buried there also. Findagrave:
Edith Bessie Penney
BIRTH Feb, 1879
Iowa, USA
DEATH Jul 16 1904 (aged 24–25) Holdenvillle, Indian Territory.
BURIAL
Osage Cemetery
Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA Her stillborn Baby Boy is buried in the Holdenville Cemetery under Infant Penney. July 1904-July 1904 father Oscar S. Penney. They were staying with Oscar's sister at the J W. Smith residence 8th street (Old Hudson Funeral Home) Smith was the president of the 1st National Bank in Holdenville and Oscar was the assistant cashier there. Mother was here for the daughter's passing. Mother: Mary Moyses White #62492690 findagrave and John H. White born nov 1844-1911 Osage, Iowa burial. Mother's father Richmond Tresidder 1825-1888 # 15418161 findagrave. Brother in law, W. J. Smith is buried in Holdenville 1871-1909. #35617936 findagrave. Oscar S. Penney I haven't found yet.
MEMORIAL ID 57663447 (Notice in the Holdenville Times Friday, July 22, 1904.) Mrs. Oscar S. Penny is dead. One of the saddest deaths which it has been our duty to chronicle occured in this city Saturday night at 11:20, when EDITH TRESSIDER WHITE PENNY, wife of OSCAR S. PENNY, assistant cashier of the First National Bank, passed peacefully away after an illness of just a week. She was preceded by a week's time into the great beyond by her infant baby boy, into whose eyes she was never permitted to look.

Mrs. Penny was 24 years and eight months old, and had been married about 16 months; her entire married life, which had been un usually happy and bright, having been spent in Holdenville. She not only had many friends, and all who knew her were her friends, but those who knew her best loved her as few friends were loved. She was a bright, cheerful, loving wife, caring more for her home and husband than all else. It seems so sad that one who had so much to live for, whose life was so full of promise, and whose very presence inspired hope and a determination for better things, should be cut down at the very threshold of her career.

But Mrs. Penny's many friends may be cheered in this hour by the fact that she was a faithful and devoted Christian, having been a member of the M. E. Church South and taking an active part in church work.

During her illness Mrs. Penny was at the home of her husband's sister, Mrs. W. J. Smith, where all that loving hearts and willing hands could do was done for her. It was there a short funeral service conducted by Rev. J. L. Bray, was held on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. On the 7 o'clock train that night the body was taken to Osage, Iowa, her former home, for burial. The body was accompanied by Mr. Penny and Mrs. John H. White, mother of Mrs. Penny, she having arrived here on Thursday of last week and remained till the end.

The floral tributes were many and beautiful. The Ladies' Aid Society, of which Mrs. Penny had been a member, presented several floral pieces, and when the hearse started for the depot, walked behind it in a body and remained until the train, which was 30 minutes late, had departed. Oscar's father :Henry Penney
BIRTH 20 Jun 1843
England
DEATH 31 May 1906 (aged 62)
Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
BURIAL
Osage Cemetery
Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
MEMORIAL ID 57510158 his mother:
Martha Lambert Hall Penney
BIRTH 2 Oct 1849
England
DEATH 22 Jan 1892 (aged 42)
Stacyville, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
BURIAL
Stacyville Cemetery
Stacyville, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
MEMORIAL ID 57662926
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Francile Cook
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The baby boy she lost a week before she died.
Infant Son Penney
BIRTH 11 Jul 1904
DEATH 11 Jul 1904
BURIAL
Holdenville Cemetery
Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma, USA
MEMORIAL ID 36222661