This is the 3rd wife of Jesse Loftin Fort.
Her name was Mary Harriet Freeman and was the mother of Jesse May Fort and Frederick Freeman Fort.
Mary Fort (13978003)
7 Sept., 1933 - The Enterprise
Mrs. Mary Freeman Fort was born September 1, 1844 in Plattsville, Massachusetts. She came to Dixon, Illinois with her parents in 1855 and to Palmyra, Nebraska in 1870. In 1872 she married Rev. J. L. Fort, who was in the Methodist ministry for fifty one years, doing work in Nebraska and Missouri. Mrs. Fort was a life member in both the Home and the Foreign missionary societies of the Methodist church. She was also an ardent W.C.T.U. worker. She was a mother of two children, a daughter who died when fourteen years age, and a son, Frederick, living in Lincoln, Nebraska, who, with his two daughters, are her only living descendants.
Mrs. Fort entered the Crowell Home April 25, 1925, and passed away September 1, 1933.
Funeral services were conducted in the Home by Rev. W. C. George, and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Palmyra, Nebraska cemetery September 3, 1933.
~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~
Contributor: Christine Solomon (49030906) •
Her name was Mary Harriet Freeman and was the mother of Jesse May Fort and Frederick Freeman Fort.
Mary Fort (13978003)
7 Sept., 1933 - The Enterprise
Mrs. Mary Freeman Fort was born September 1, 1844 in Plattsville, Massachusetts. She came to Dixon, Illinois with her parents in 1855 and to Palmyra, Nebraska in 1870. In 1872 she married Rev. J. L. Fort, who was in the Methodist ministry for fifty one years, doing work in Nebraska and Missouri. Mrs. Fort was a life member in both the Home and the Foreign missionary societies of the Methodist church. She was also an ardent W.C.T.U. worker. She was a mother of two children, a daughter who died when fourteen years age, and a son, Frederick, living in Lincoln, Nebraska, who, with his two daughters, are her only living descendants.
Mrs. Fort entered the Crowell Home April 25, 1925, and passed away September 1, 1933.
Funeral services were conducted in the Home by Rev. W. C. George, and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Palmyra, Nebraska cemetery September 3, 1933.
~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~
Contributor: Christine Solomon (49030906) •
This is the 3rd wife of Jesse Loftin Fort.
Her name was Mary Harriet Freeman and was the mother of Jesse May Fort and Frederick Freeman Fort.
Mary Fort (13978003)
7 Sept., 1933 - The Enterprise
Mrs. Mary Freeman Fort was born September 1, 1844 in Plattsville, Massachusetts. She came to Dixon, Illinois with her parents in 1855 and to Palmyra, Nebraska in 1870. In 1872 she married Rev. J. L. Fort, who was in the Methodist ministry for fifty one years, doing work in Nebraska and Missouri. Mrs. Fort was a life member in both the Home and the Foreign missionary societies of the Methodist church. She was also an ardent W.C.T.U. worker. She was a mother of two children, a daughter who died when fourteen years age, and a son, Frederick, living in Lincoln, Nebraska, who, with his two daughters, are her only living descendants.
Mrs. Fort entered the Crowell Home April 25, 1925, and passed away September 1, 1933.
Funeral services were conducted in the Home by Rev. W. C. George, and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Palmyra, Nebraska cemetery September 3, 1933.
~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~
Contributor: Christine Solomon (49030906) •
Her name was Mary Harriet Freeman and was the mother of Jesse May Fort and Frederick Freeman Fort.
Mary Fort (13978003)
7 Sept., 1933 - The Enterprise
Mrs. Mary Freeman Fort was born September 1, 1844 in Plattsville, Massachusetts. She came to Dixon, Illinois with her parents in 1855 and to Palmyra, Nebraska in 1870. In 1872 she married Rev. J. L. Fort, who was in the Methodist ministry for fifty one years, doing work in Nebraska and Missouri. Mrs. Fort was a life member in both the Home and the Foreign missionary societies of the Methodist church. She was also an ardent W.C.T.U. worker. She was a mother of two children, a daughter who died when fourteen years age, and a son, Frederick, living in Lincoln, Nebraska, who, with his two daughters, are her only living descendants.
Mrs. Fort entered the Crowell Home April 25, 1925, and passed away September 1, 1933.
Funeral services were conducted in the Home by Rev. W. C. George, and the body was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Palmyra, Nebraska cemetery September 3, 1933.
~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~
Contributor: Christine Solomon (49030906) •
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