19/JUL/1828
25/APR/1913
OAK RIDGE - OKE
SP. WILLIAM.
NEE: FIERS.
MAR. 1847.
BORN IN OHIO.
REP. 30/APR/1913.
RCJ. 30/APR/1913.
CLOSE ELIZABETH RICE COUNTY JOURNAL 30/APR/1913 MRS. ELIZABETH CLOSE, WIDOW OF THE LATE HON. WILLIAM CLOSE, DIED AT HER HOME ON SEVENTH AVENUE AND EIGHTH STREET, ON FRIDAY, APRIL 25, AGED 84 YEARS. DECEASED WAS ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF RICE COUNTY, HAVING COME HERE WITH HER HUSBAND IN 1855, AND SETTLED ON A FARM IN THE TOWN OF RICHLAND. SHE WAS BORN ON JULY 19, 1828, IN OHIO. AT THE AGE OF FIVE SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO INDIANA, WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL SHE CAME TO MINNESOTA. SHE WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM CLOSE IN 1847. MR. CLOSE DIED ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO. NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, EIGHT OF WHOM ARE LIVING, NAMELY: MRS. A. H. BICE AND MRS. ELIZA AUSTIN, FARIBAULT; MRS. D. S. WEMPLE, FERGUS FALLS; MRS. W. W. AUSTIN, SEATTLE, WASH.; JAMES W. CLOSE, BUNKER HILL, IND.; C. G. CLOSE, LEWISTOWN, IDAHO; MELVILLE J. CLOSE, MINNEAPOLIS AND WALTER CLOSE, MELLEN, WIS. ALL WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL EXCEPT MRS. W. W. AUSTIN AND C. G. CLOSE. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE RESIDENCE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE CONDUCTED BY REV. E. H. GOODELL, PASTOR OF THE M. E. CHURCH, OF WHICH DECEASED WAS A MEMBER SINCE THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS. BURIAL WAS IN OAK RIDGE CEMETERY.
19/JUL/1828
25/APR/1913
OAK RIDGE - OKE
SP. WILLIAM.
NEE: FIERS.
MAR. 1847.
BORN IN OHIO.
REP. 30/APR/1913.
RCJ. 30/APR/1913.
CLOSE ELIZABETH RICE COUNTY JOURNAL 30/APR/1913 MRS. ELIZABETH CLOSE, WIDOW OF THE LATE HON. WILLIAM CLOSE, DIED AT HER HOME ON SEVENTH AVENUE AND EIGHTH STREET, ON FRIDAY, APRIL 25, AGED 84 YEARS. DECEASED WAS ONE OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF RICE COUNTY, HAVING COME HERE WITH HER HUSBAND IN 1855, AND SETTLED ON A FARM IN THE TOWN OF RICHLAND. SHE WAS BORN ON JULY 19, 1828, IN OHIO. AT THE AGE OF FIVE SHE MOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO INDIANA, WHERE SHE RESIDED UNTIL SHE CAME TO MINNESOTA. SHE WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM CLOSE IN 1847. MR. CLOSE DIED ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO. NINE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, EIGHT OF WHOM ARE LIVING, NAMELY: MRS. A. H. BICE AND MRS. ELIZA AUSTIN, FARIBAULT; MRS. D. S. WEMPLE, FERGUS FALLS; MRS. W. W. AUSTIN, SEATTLE, WASH.; JAMES W. CLOSE, BUNKER HILL, IND.; C. G. CLOSE, LEWISTOWN, IDAHO; MELVILLE J. CLOSE, MINNEAPOLIS AND WALTER CLOSE, MELLEN, WIS. ALL WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL EXCEPT MRS. W. W. AUSTIN AND C. G. CLOSE. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE RESIDENCE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND WERE CONDUCTED BY REV. E. H. GOODELL, PASTOR OF THE M. E. CHURCH, OF WHICH DECEASED WAS A MEMBER SINCE THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS. BURIAL WAS IN OAK RIDGE CEMETERY.
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