Edith Unland 1879-1911

UNLAND, JONES, DOUGHERTY, RIDGEWAY, TROW, RANDALL, WHITE

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Edith Unland

Edith Lyda Jones, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Unland, was born in Bonaparte, Iowa July 3, 1879. Here she spent a happy childhood, and grew to be a young woman. She took the course in the public school from the primary on through the grades, and graduated with honors, the youngest of a class of fourteen, in the spring of 1896.

In the spring of 1903 Edith finished the course in the Ruskin business college at Trenton, Mo.

Edith was always an active, enthusiastic member of the Sunday School and Young Peoples Society, and she united with the Presbyterian Church ----with the pastorate of Rev. Scolfield.

Edith had a remarkably happy, disposition, all her short life -- full of thoughtful deed for others. She was always full of energy and ambition, the center of life and good time where ever she was.

April 8, 1906 she was united in marriage with Edgar Earnest Unland, the matrimony taking place at the home of Methodist minister in Chicago. They lived in Chicago for a while, but recently have been making their home in New York city.

It was from there a message was received last week saying that Edith was seriously ill and her mother and daughter went at once to her. They found her better than they had expected, and sent back word that she was doing very well, but an operation was contemplated, which was successful. Her condition was more critical than even her physicians had anticipated, for she died Thursday morning, October 26, 1911, aged little more than thirty-two years.

She was conscious to the last, and bade her husband, mother and daughter good-bye. Her last words were, papa I am coming home to you” Her father Henry Jones, died April --1902.
Her death coming with such a sudden shock, has almost overwhelmed her relatives, and comes as a calamity to all who knew her.

She leaves to mourn their loss, her husband Edgar Earnest Unland, her mother Mrs. Lyda Jones, her daughter ---by a previous marriage, Mildred Maria Dougherty. She leaves three sisters, Mrs. Alice Nell Jones, of Bonaparte, Mrs. J. D. Ridgeway of Trenton, and Mrs. B.A. Trow of Libertyville and two brothers, Walter E Jones of Bonaparte and Harry R. Jones of Farmington, and two aunts, Miss Ella Randall of this place, and Mrs. Sophia White of Fredonia, N.Y.
Besides these she leaves nieces and nephews, and other relatives and friends who deplore the death of one so young, so good, and to whom it seemed the. Obit ends abruptly here.

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Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Scrapbook A, page 348, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA