Emma McGloflin (1856-1909)

MCGLOFLIN, GILLESPIE, WILLIAMS, HARPER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/30/2017 at 23:16:57

From Nevada Representative June 1, 1909 (page 5)

OBITUARY

DEATH OF EMMA McGLOFLIN

Miss Emma McGloflin, sister of Mrs. J. F. Gillespie and in her earlier years long a resident of Nevada, died on Sunday, May 30, at Orange, California, where she and her elder sisters, Mrs. Mary Williams and Miss Margaret McGloflin had for some time been residing. Her illness was of short duration and the first advice concerning it that was received here was a letter Monday which letter was followed a few hours later by a telegram reporting her death and stating further that her body would arrive at Nevada for burial next Saturday. Just when it will arrive and when the funeral will be held is not yet known or determined.

Miss McGloflin was native of Galipolis, Ohio, and she was about 53 years of age. She came with her family to Iowa when she was a little girl, and they lived first at Des Moines but removed later to a farm near Pleasant Grove in this county, where she grew to young ladyhood. The family moved to Nevada about 1876 or 1877 and they resided on west Court avenue for many years. About 1886, she accompanied her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs R. B. Harper, first to Ripley in Greene county and later to Mapleton she taking a place in his store. She remained with the Harpers until about half a dozen years ago, when she went to Oklahoma, and from there she went about three years ago to join her sisters in California.

Miss McGloflin was in every sense a most estimable woman. She was energetic and capable, was popular and much esteemed. She taught school, and for a few years she was a employe of the Representative office. She was efficient in business, and she made friends on all sides and held them. She had been gone form Nevada for more than twenty years; but she has had here all the time many friends to whom her occasional returns have always been occasions of pleasure and to whom the news of her death will come as very much of a shock.