Dorcas W. Felmlee

FELMLEE, WEAR

Posted By: Judy Ann Felmlee (email)
Date: 2/8/2005 at 10:00:26

This obiturary was found in the Keosauqua Republican Paper Dated Thursday 22 January. 1914 Page 3 col. 4-5
Dorcas Felmlee died at the home of her son, Alpha Felmlee, in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, 5 January 1914 aged 70 years, 4 months and 15 days. She was born in Westmoreland Co. Penn. 20 August 1843, and came with her parents, Peter and Elizabeth Felmlee to Iowa in 1867, settling in Village Township, this county. Here the departed made her home until Aug 1911, when she moved to Minnesota. She was for many years a member of the Mt. Moriah M.E. church near Douds, and enjoyed the comforts of the christian faith.
She leaves to mourn for her a son, Alpha Felmlee, of Minnesota; a daughter, Mrs Johm Wear, of Douds; 13 grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren; one brother and two sisters. The funeral took place from Mt. Moriah church 9 January 1914, Rev. G.W. Barber of Chillicothe, Iowa, conducting the service. Interment in the Mt. Moriah cemetery