Birchard, Almira Ives 1812-1897

CAMPBELL, IVES, BIRCHARD, BURCHARD

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/14/2013 at 20:46:24

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
June 21, 1897

Died.
Mrs. Almira Burchard (sic Birchard) died Wednesday at the home of her son. A. R. Ives. The
deceased was eighty-five years of age and has reached her allotted span of
life. Yesterday she complained of feeling ill and shortly afterwards passed
away. Her maiden name was Almira Campbell and she was born in Massachusetts
in 1812. She lived in Racine county, Wisconsin, from 1838 to 1865 and in
Iowa for the past thirty years, twenty-one of them in LeMars. She was
married twice and for a long time has made her home with her son, A. R.
Ives, of this city.

The funeral took place Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
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NOTE: Almira Ives Birchard is buried in Block 9, LeMars City Cemetery, in the IVES family plot.