Lelia Fontell Davis 1892-1902

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Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 10/2/2001 at 00:06:15

Lelia Fontell Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Davis, was born in Mt. Sterling, Iowa, January 30, 1892, and died at her home in Bonaparte, Iowa, at noon Thursday, January 9, 1902, of typhoid fever.

Funeral services were held Saturday from the Methodist church the Sunday school of which Lelia had regularly attended for several years. Rev. Collier expressed the sympathy and sorrow of the large audience in a sermon which was replete with comforting words.

A company of Lelia's playmates accompanied the casket as it was carried from the church by girl pallbearers. The casket itself was covered with beautiful floral offerings, largely gifts of Lelia's schoolmates and friends of the bereaved family. The body was interred in the Bonaparte cemetery beside the grave of her little sister, Helen, who died three years ago.

The bereaved parents have the tenderest sympathy of a host of people.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 29 of Obit Book A found in the Van Buren County, Iowa Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in November 1999. Name and date of newspaper not given.) ORIGINAL POST 15 Nov 1999.

I am not related to this person and am posting this obit for those who may find him/her in their family history.

Add'l Source: Entler Scrapbooks, vol. 4, Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA