Edith R. (SLACK) CROUCH

SLACK, CROUCH

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 11/20/2008 at 10:29:16

Lenox Time-Table, February 24, 1921

OBITUARY.

Edith R. SLACK, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth SLACK was born Aug 24, 1872 in Page county, Iowa where she lived until she was 19 years old. At that time she went to Cambridge, Ill, where she taught school for two terms. At the age of 21 she was married to James CROUCH. They lived at Cambridge five years and then moved to Ringgold county, Iowa in 1899. In 1908 they moved to Blue Grove vicinity [Taylor County, Iowa] where they resided for thirteen years. In March 1920 they moved to Lenox.

In early girlhood she joined the Congregational church and transferred her membership to Blue Grove church when they moved near there. She taught a class in the Sunday school there and was Secretary of the Ladies Aid Society for some time. She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, six children, Floyd, Mae, Wesley, Francis, Bessie and Ethel, her mother, one sister, Mrs. Mary CROUCH of Casawattamie, Kansas; one brother, Leslie SLACK and a large circle of friends. Interment was made in the Fairview cemetery [Ringgold County, Iowa].

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, 2008