Mary Ann (Boddy) Coggshall (1851-1939)

BODDY, COGGSHALL, BEAR, MYERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 1/29/2022 at 10:53:16

From Nevada Evening Journal August 21, 1939 (page 3)

Funeral Services Here Friday for Mrs. C. A. Coggshall

Funeral rites for Mrs. Mary A. Coggshall, 87, for over 65 years a resident of Story county, who died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Charles Bear at Albany, Oregon, August 13, were held at the Methodist church here Friday afternoon with Dr. C. D. Loose in charge. The service was attended by a large gathering of relatives an longtime neighbors and friends. Mrs. Ansel Freeland and Mrs. Homer Jacobs sang two songs "Lead Kindly Light" and "The Old Rugged Cross." Mrs. Garnet Hathaway was at the organ.

Casket bearers were selected from among her old neighbors and friends. They were W. F. Stratton, Harley Elliott, Will Warren, W. C. Johnson, Ernest French and Frank Kirk.

The floral offerings were beautiful and gave testimony to the high esteem in which she had been held during her long and useful life.

Mrs. Coggshall, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Boddy, was born near Utica, New York, September 4, 1851, and died at Albany, Oregon, August 13, 1939, aged 87 years, 11 months and 9 days. The family moved to Illinois when she was young and it was there that she was united in marriage to Eugene Coggshall on January 1, 1873. They came out to Iowa the same spring and locate on a farm in northern Union township where the family home continued until 1906 when they retired an located in Nevada. Here Mr. Coggshall died October 2, 1907.

Those to mourn her passing are her daughter Mrs. Charles Bear of Albany, Oregon, at whose home she passed the last two years of her life; sons Frank A. Coggshall of Engelwood, Calif., and Clarence A. Coggshall who lives on the old homestead; a foster daughter, Mrs. J. D. Myers of Leon, Iowa; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

Long a member of the Methodist church, she had affiliated with the church of that denomination at Albany and there she was a member at the time of her death.

Relatives and friends here from a distance for the funeral were Mrs. Hannah Boddy, Mrs. Emma Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Boddy, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Boddy, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boddy and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Body all from Iowa Falls, and all nieces and nephewss of Mrs. Coggshall; Miss Bessie Young of Alden, sister of Mrs. Clarence Coggshall and Mrs. Estie (Boddy) Ware, Mrs. Clyde Stuart and Mrs. Walter Ellis of Des Moines and Dr. an Mrs. J. D. Myers and daughter Marilyn of Leon, Iowa.