Horton, Abbie 1894-1912

HORTON, MUDGETT

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Akron Register-Tribune
February 29, 1912

DIED.
Mrs. Frank Horton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Mudgett, of this city, died Tuesday in a Sioux City hospital following an operation for appendicitis. Deceased was 17 years of age and lived on a farm about six miles northwest of Sioux City. She had been married only three months. The relatives have the sympathy of all who know them in this sad bereavement. The remains will be brought here for interment tomorrow (Friday.)

Mr. and Mrs. Mudgett were with their daughter at the time of the operation.
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Akron Register-Tribune
March 14, 1912

OBITUARY

Abbie Horton was born May 3rd, 1894, at Akron, Iowa, and died February 27,
1912, at Sioux City following an operation for appendicitis, aged 17 years,
9 months, and 25 days.

At the age of five years she moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe
Mudgett, to Sioux City. She was married there to Mr. Frank Horton, October
11, 1911, and they made their home on a farm a few miles north of that city.

Near relatives left to mourn her sad and untimely death are the bereaved
husband, Frank Horton, of Sioux City; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Mudgett,
of Akron; three sisters, Mrs. B. Dickerson, of Sioux City; Mrs. William
Smith, of Buffalo Gap, S.D., and Mrs. D. Fouts, of Stevens, Minn.

The Funeral services were held in the Akron Baptist church, the service
being conducted by Dr. R. F. Kilgore. Interment was made here in Riverside
cemetery. Relatives of the husband coming to attend the funeral were his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Horton, and his brother, Ray, of Sioux City; his
grandfather, Oliver Horton, of Glidden, Ia.; his uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. N. J. Gibbs, of Ponca, Neb.; his brother-in-law, B. Dickerson, and
daughters of Jefferson, S.D.; his aunt, Mrs. H. J. Coppock, of LeMars, and
his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hummel, of Westfield, Ia.