Ava Viola Dennis 1884

DENNIS

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 6/20/2004 at 13:34:28

Obituary: Ava Dennis

DIED.--Thursday, March 6, 1884, Ava Viola infant daughter of V.B. and Catherine Dennis, aged two months.

Mr. Dennis and family came to Colfax Thursday morning to start for Gowerie where they go to make their home. The babe, a bright little thing, seemed to be in good health when they started, but on the way began crying and writhing as if in pain. The mother attempted to soothe it, and aft? sesson seemed to have succeeded, as it ? ceased crying and settled down into wraps, quietly. On arriving in town the child was found, upon unwrapping to to be dead. The examination by phsicians showed that the child had died from natural causes and not from suffocation by too close wrapped as the agonized mother at first feared. The funeral occurred from the Old Presbyterian church, Rev. Holmes of the Free Methodist church, preaching the discourse and the remains were interred in the cemetery south of town. ~ March 1884.

Note: Parents are buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery in Jasper Co., Iowa