Mary Ann (Dunham) EBLE

EBLE, DUNHAM, GOODWIN, LYLES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/27/2009 at 20:11:31

MRS. ANTON EBLE DEAD

Mrs. Anton Eble died Thursday morning at eleven o'clock at the family residence in Texas township five miles northwest of Maroa. Mrs. Eble’s health for a great many years had not been good, but during the last few months she had gradually failed. There was not much apparent change in her condition until the first of this week. Mrs. Eble had been afflicted with dropsy and that with heart failure caused her death.

Mary Ann Dunham was born in Hamilton county, Illinois June 15, 1828. When a child her parents moved to Morgan County. She was united in marriage in that county to Anton Eble, who survives her, in March 1853. They resided there until the spring of 1871 when Mrs. Eble bought the 80 acre farm now occupied by T. C. Grady. He paid $40 per acre for this land and the family made it their home until the spring of 1883, when desiring a larger farm the present homestead was purchased.

Mrs. Eble was the mother of six children, one of whom died in infancy. The living are Mrs. Ellen Goodwin, of Clarion, Iowa, Miss Lydia Eble, John Eble, Clarion, Iowa, Joseph D. Eble who resides on the homeplace and Clara Belle Lyles, wife of Rev. Charles Lyles, of Decatur. Mrs. Eble was a loving wife and mother and was esteemed in the community where she resided. The funeral services will beheld at the family residence at ten 'clock on Sunday, being conducted by Rev. D. T. Miles and the interment will be at the Maroa cemetery.

Source unknown, Dewitt County, Illinois
February 14, 1901