The ashes of the youngest of Beatrice's first settlers, who was barely one year old when she came with her parents to the townsite, were buried Saturday morning alongside her parents in the old Beatrice Cemetery on Scott Street.
She was Mary Towle Davis, whose father, Albert "Pap" Towle was the patriarch among the town's founders and Beatrice's first postmaster.
She was born May of 1856 in Hennapin, Ill., almost exactly one year before Beatrice was founded. She died 33 years ago and was buried in Evanston, Ill.
Because of the deep affection she had for her parents, her grandchildren decided to move her ashes to the Towle family plot in the "old cemetery."
Graveside services were conducted by Mrs. Alfred Rasmussen of the Beatrice Christian Science Church.
Mrs. Davis's career was in music and literature. She studied voice in Italy, wrote for New York music and literary publications and published her own literary magazine in Chicago for a time.
Bringing the ashes to Beatrice were Mrs. Davis's granddaughter, Mrs. Leroy F. Schmidt of Elgin, Ill., and her husband; and a grandson, James J. Evetts of Elmhurst, Ill.
Beatrice Daily Sun, 14 Jul 1975, page 1.
She was Mary Towle Davis, whose father, Albert "Pap" Towle was the patriarch among the town's founders and Beatrice's first postmaster.
She was born May of 1856 in Hennapin, Ill., almost exactly one year before Beatrice was founded. She died 33 years ago and was buried in Evanston, Ill.
Because of the deep affection she had for her parents, her grandchildren decided to move her ashes to the Towle family plot in the "old cemetery."
Graveside services were conducted by Mrs. Alfred Rasmussen of the Beatrice Christian Science Church.
Mrs. Davis's career was in music and literature. She studied voice in Italy, wrote for New York music and literary publications and published her own literary magazine in Chicago for a time.
Bringing the ashes to Beatrice were Mrs. Davis's granddaughter, Mrs. Leroy F. Schmidt of Elgin, Ill., and her husband; and a grandson, James J. Evetts of Elmhurst, Ill.
Beatrice Daily Sun, 14 Jul 1975, page 1.
The ashes of the youngest of Beatrice's first settlers, who was barely one year old when she came with her parents to the townsite, were buried Saturday morning alongside her parents in the old Beatrice Cemetery on Scott Street.
She was Mary Towle Davis, whose father, Albert "Pap" Towle was the patriarch among the town's founders and Beatrice's first postmaster.
She was born May of 1856 in Hennapin, Ill., almost exactly one year before Beatrice was founded. She died 33 years ago and was buried in Evanston, Ill.
Because of the deep affection she had for her parents, her grandchildren decided to move her ashes to the Towle family plot in the "old cemetery."
Graveside services were conducted by Mrs. Alfred Rasmussen of the Beatrice Christian Science Church.
Mrs. Davis's career was in music and literature. She studied voice in Italy, wrote for New York music and literary publications and published her own literary magazine in Chicago for a time.
Bringing the ashes to Beatrice were Mrs. Davis's granddaughter, Mrs. Leroy F. Schmidt of Elgin, Ill., and her husband; and a grandson, James J. Evetts of Elmhurst, Ill.
Beatrice Daily Sun, 14 Jul 1975, page 1.
She was Mary Towle Davis, whose father, Albert "Pap" Towle was the patriarch among the town's founders and Beatrice's first postmaster.
She was born May of 1856 in Hennapin, Ill., almost exactly one year before Beatrice was founded. She died 33 years ago and was buried in Evanston, Ill.
Because of the deep affection she had for her parents, her grandchildren decided to move her ashes to the Towle family plot in the "old cemetery."
Graveside services were conducted by Mrs. Alfred Rasmussen of the Beatrice Christian Science Church.
Mrs. Davis's career was in music and literature. She studied voice in Italy, wrote for New York music and literary publications and published her own literary magazine in Chicago for a time.
Bringing the ashes to Beatrice were Mrs. Davis's granddaughter, Mrs. Leroy F. Schmidt of Elgin, Ill., and her husband; and a grandson, James J. Evetts of Elmhurst, Ill.
Beatrice Daily Sun, 14 Jul 1975, page 1.
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