Emma McGloflin (1856-1909)

MCGLOFLIN, GILLESPIE, HARPER, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/22/2018 at 14:40:36

From Nevada Representative June 8, 1909 (page 1)

Funeral of Emma McGloflin

The funeral of the late Emma McGloflin was conducted from the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gillespie, Rev. R. E. Shaw officiating and being assisted by Rev. W. P. Payne. There was a considerable company of old and true friends to pay the last rites of the deceased and she was laid to rest in the McGloflin lot in the Nevada cemetery. Miss McGloflin was born at Galipolis, Ohio, January 1, 1856, and died at Los Angeles, California, May 30, 1909, aged 53 years, 4 month and 29 days. those of her immediate family who were present at the funeral were her mother, Mrs. Catherine McGloflin; her sister, Mrs. J. F. Gillespie of Nevada and Mrs. R. B. Harper of Onawa; her nephew, J. L. Gillespie of Des Moines, and her niece, Miss Winifred Harper of Onawa. Of her other sisters, Mrs. Williams and Miss Margaret McGloflin of Los Angeles were with her at the time of her death but were not able to come here for the funeral, and her sister, Miss Frances McGloflin, now at Rochester, Minnesota, though improving from her recent operation, was unable to come.

Mrs. McGloflin and Mrs. Gillespie and the other relatives join in expressing to friends and neighbors their grateful appreciation of acts and words of kindness during the time of their bereavement.