Mrs. Thos. (Mary) Kenderdine (1849-1916)

KENDERDINE, SMURTHWATE, REEVES

Posted By: Alan Nicholson
Date: 10/21/2011 at 13:53:06

Sutherland Courier, 4 Jan 1917, p 1, col 1

Mrs. Thos. Kenderdine Dead

Mary E. Smurthwate was born in England, May 18, 1849. When a child she came to America with her parents who settled in Ohio, where her father having died, Mary E. was adopted by James M. Reeves. She married Thomas Kenderdine in March 1871, and moved at once to their homestead in Clay county, Iowa. In the vicinity of this hold homestead, near Dickens, they lived until the death of her husband, September 7, 1916, when she went to live with her son, Dr. W. H. Kenderdine, at Sutherland, where she died December 19, 1916, aged 76 years, 7 months and 19 days.

She was an acceptable member of the M. E. church of Dickens, Iowa, and those who knew her believed that death has transferred her membership from the church militant to the church triumphant.

Two children, T. R. Kenderdine of Canada, Dr. W. H. Kenderdine of Sutherland, Iowa, together with four grandchildren remain to mourn the departure of their mother and grandmother.

[the rest of this column of the paper is torn and tattered, but the words appear to say that the funeral was held on a Monday]