Elizabeth CATTELS

CATTELS, WHIPPLE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/22/2016 at 20:52:43

December 24, 1831 ---- December 24, 1907

Mother Cattels Dead
Passes Away Tuesday Evening, Her Seventy-Sixth Birthday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cattels died Tuesday evening of this week at the home of her son John, east of town, after an illness of four days of pneumonia, Mrs. Cattels was born in Yorkshire, England, 70 years to a day before her death. When a child of ten she came with her parents to Canada, later moving to Sheffield, Ill., where she lived ten years. Twenty-five years ago she came with her husband to Wright county and settled at Eagle Grove, coming to this vicinity eighteen years ago. Of late years the aged couple have lived with their son John. Mrs. Cattels was a good, old fashioned mother—one of the best of God's creatures. Her life was quiet, but it was full of sunshine and good humor. She loved her home and the ones about her, and it was there that her presence was always a benediction and a blessing. Besides the aged husband, who is 85, four sons and one daughter are left to mourn. They are: John, cf Clarion; Benjamin, of Emmetsburg; William, of Salem, Ill., and Robert, of Wyoming. The daughter is Mrs. Lizzie Whipple, late of Kansas. The funeral services were held at the home yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Spence of the Methodist church. Burial was in Evergreen cemetery.

Clarion Clipper - Clarion, Iowa
December 27, 1907