Albro, Mary E. "Mate" 1846-1928

ALBRO, PRESTON

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 5/5/2005 at 15:46:33

From the LeMars Sentinel Friday, April 27, 1928, Page 6, Column 3:

Seney--A number of our people attended the funeral of Mrs. Perry Albro in LeMars on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albro lived here a long time until she needed so much care they went to spend the past two or three years in the home of their daughter, Mrs. Harry Britton, in Spencer, Iowa.
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From the LeMars Sentinel, Tuesday, April 24, 1928, Page 1, Column 5:

Death Takes Old Settlers
Mrs. Perry Albro Was Early Settler Near Seney
Early Seney Resident

Friends here were notified Sunday of the death of Mrs. Perry Albro, one of the very early settlers in Plymouth county, which occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. L. Britton, in Spencer, Iowa, where she and her husband had resided the past few years. Her maiden name was Mary E. Preston and she was born in Exeter, New York, January 27, 1846. Her mother passed away when she was a small child and she made her home with her father until her marriage, December 22, 1867, with James Perry Albro, at Bradford, Pennsylvania. They were the parents of three children, two of whom died in infancy. One daughter, Mrs. H. L. Britton, with the husband, remains to mourn their loss.

Following their marriage they lived in Bradford for two years and then came west to Iowa in 1869 and took up a homestead near Seney, after their arrival in LeMars which was then a frontier post in the northwest.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Albro lived in Plymouth county for many years and then moved to Minnesota where they settled in a small village near Huntley. Here they resided on a farm for six years and then moved back to Plymouth county and lived in their residence at Seney.

Mr. and Mrs. Albro remained in Seney until 1925 when they moved to Spencer to make their home with their only daughter, Mrs. H. L. Britton.

Mrs. Edith Darville of this city, is a niece of the deceased.

Mr. and Mrs. Albro celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary December 22, 1927, at their home in Spencer.

Mr. and Mrs. Albro were widely known residents in this vicinity for many years and enjoyed the respect and esteem of all who know them.

The funeral will be held at the First Methodist Church in this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon, Rev. B. M. Watson, of Sioux City, a former pastor at Seney, officiating.