Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, December 4, l902

CHARLOTTE FRANKLIN, wife of CHARLES FRANKLIN, died at her home in St. Joe., Mo., Nov. l9, l902, and was brought to Davis City for burial last Wednesday. Funeral services were held at the M.E. Church, Rev. Knoll officiated, after which she was tenderly laid to rest, followed by a large concourse of friends and neighbors, many who had known her from childhood. MRS. FRANKLIN was a daughter of WILLIAM DAVIS, the founder of our city, from whom Davis City took its name. She was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, was about 54 years old.

She was brought when a child to Decatur County and the family settled on a farm that today is occupied by our city; which was her childhood home; as she once laughingly told ye correspondent, she had chopped corn over every foot of Davis City. Her father built and run the old mill that was for many years the only mill within a radius of 50 miles, and also started the first store ever run in our city. She had always lived in or near our city until about three years ago when the family moved to St. Joe. to live.

She leaves a husband and two sons to mourn her loss. She was only sick about a week. She was of a bright, cheerful disposition and a woman of noble traits of character. She was kind and sympathetic as a friend and neighbor, generous and charitable to the poor and one of the best nurses in sickness, and will be missed by a large circle of old time friends.

MRS. FRANKLIN was a woman who had known much sorrow and heartache. She was not a member of any church but was a firm believer in an ever ruling providence, so friends remember there was one who forgave the thief on the cross and who said that ye give but a cup of cold water in my name ye have your reward. Then may we not trust that her many good deeds have been remembered by our kind and loving Savior who said "there are many mansions in my Father's Kindgom." Peace to her memory.

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