Harriett "Hattie" (Tanner) Cockrell (1875-1908)

TANNER, COCKRELL, STODDARD, YOUNG

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/1/2017 at 21:59:39

From Nevada Representative March 18, 1908

OBITUARY

Death of Mrs. Harriette Tanner-Cockrell

"Hattie Tanner is dead." A wave of sadness swept over the older portion of the community this morning as the foregoing message was communicated from one to another. Her remains, brought from Kansas City, arrived at ten o'clock today over the Short Line, and now repose at the home of Mrs. Susan Beatty to await the funeral service at ten o'clock tomorrow (Thursday) at the Presbyterian church; and interment in the family lot in the Nevada cemetery. They were accompanied here by the bereaved husband, Mr. Thomas L. Cockrell, by the brother of the deceased, Charles Tanner of Wichita, Kansas, and by the sisters, Mrs. J. C. Stoddard of Bunker Hill, Illinois, and Mrs. Sol Young of Des Moines. James Tanner is here also from Fullerton, Nebraska, and John from Omaha.

Harriette Tanner Cockrell was born in Nevada about twenty eight years ago and here was her home during the lifetime of her parents and till the removal of Mrs. Young to Des Moines, when she went for a time to Fullerton, Nebraska, and thence to the home of her brother Charles in Kansas. The latter spot she brightened till she went a bride with Mr. Cockrell to a home of their own in Kansas City, about four years ago. Pleasant words have come back of the happiness of the married home; but two years ago serious illness marred it, and for many months Mrs. Cockrell was in a hospital. She rallied but never became well; five weeks ago she was prostrated with tubercular peritonitis, and the end came on the 17th instant.

The final rites will be among those who remember the promise of her girlhood, and loved her for her estimable qualities. Her remains will rest with these of her father and mother, the former of whom, Mr. Joseph Tanner, passed away August 23, 1897 and the latter January 14, 1892.