Carrie Joanna (Tappan) AYARS LEWIS

LEWIS, TAPPAN, SAUNDERS, AYARS, CHURCHWARD, BROWN, LANGWORTHY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/22/2008 at 09:51:11

The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 110, No 12, p 382, March 23, 1931

Mrs. Carrie Joanna Lewis, daughter of Joel and Caroline (Saunders) Tappan, was born one-half mile east of Dodge Center, Minn., with her twin sister, Clara Josephine, August 11, 1862, and died at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Mich., February 25, 1931, aged 68 years, 6 months, and 14 days. She lived with her parents at Dodge Center, until her marriage to Ellis Ayars on November 10, 1881. Some years afterwards they moved to Webster City, then Eagle Grove, Iowa. After several years there, they moved to Superior, Wis., where they lived for twenty years, till the death of her husband seven years ago. After the death of her husband she came back to Dodge Center, where she lived for a while with her sister, Mrs. W. E. Churchward. Later she went to Battle Creek, Mich., where she met an old acquaintance, Rev. George W. Lewis, and was married to him. During the present winter she suffered from several ailments, and finally succumbed to pneumonia. Her two older brothers, Alfred and Fred, had preceded her in death several years. At an early age she had united with the Dodge Center Seventh Day Baptist Church, and had a deep interest in her home church and its Woman's Benevolent society as long as she lived.

She is survived by her husband and daughter, two grandchildren, her youngest brother, Frank, her twin sister, Mrs. Homer Brown, both of Battle Creek, Mich.; and by two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Churchward and Mrs. A. N. Langworthy of Dodge Center, Minn.; besides many other relatives and friends. Funeral services at Battle Creek were conducted by her pastor, Rev. William M. Simpson, and the body was then taken to Dodge Center, where funeral services were held in the Seventh Day Baptist church, conducted by a former pastor, Rev. James H. Hurley. Burial was made in Riverside Cemetery. W. M. S.