Margaret Lemley Dewees was born at Richmond, Iowa, February 19, 1846 and departed this life at Grant, Iowa, January 14, 1928, aged 81 years, 10 months, 26 days. She lived the early part of her life in Washington, Iowa, where at the age of 18 she was united in marriage to David Dewees, February 6, 1867.
To this union were born eleven children, six of whom died in infancy and Iva, wife of F. A. Bixler of Corning, Iowa passed to the Great Beyond on July 17, 1898. Those who survive here are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. F. Jarvis, Frank Dewey, of Grant, Iowa, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
With the exception of four years spent in Nebraska, she has spent her entire life in Iowa and has made her home at Grant, Iowa for the past fifteen years.
She was a woman of much humility, quite and retiring, seldom equaled for patience and always thinking of the comfort and welfare of others than herself, as an example of her wonderful nature, she remarked during her last illness, “I do not know why I have to suffer so long, but I am not complaining. I have lived a great life, I am satisfied.”
For the last fifteen years, she has been confined to her home suffering from an affliction, which prevented her from visiting her friends and neighbors, which in former years was one of her great satisfactions. She has been a faithful member of the Methodist Church for fifty years, transferring her membership to her home church four years ago besides her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss oe brother, Perry Lemley, and two sisters, Mrs. Malissa Look and Mrs. Dora Randall all of Kalona, Iowa and a host of other relatives and friends.
Adams County Free Press, Friday, January 27, 1928, page 12
Mrs. Margaret C. DeWees, a resident of Grant fifteen years, died Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at her home there, her death resulting from heart trouble.
Margaret C. Lemley was born at Richmond, Iowa on February 19, 1846 and was 81 years old at her death. She was married to David DeWees in Washington County, Iowa, on February 6, 1867 and to this union eleven children were born, seven of whom are deceased. Those living are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. P, Jarvis, and Frank DeWees of Grant, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa. There are also two sisters and one brother of Kalona, Iowa. Mrs. DeWees husband preceded her in death.
Mrs. DeWees was a member of the Methodist Church for more than fifty years. Her funeral was held at her home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with Rev. Zumster of Columbia, Iowa, formerly pastor of the Grant Methodist Church in charge of services. He was assisted by Rev. A. Breeling of Grant and Rev. Spiller of Massena, Iowa.
The singing was by Mrs. Welch Pogue, Mrs. Virginia Strong, Fred Davis, and Robert Remig, and the pall bearers were Arthur Stinemates, Geo. Stinemates, Fred Kenworthy, Geo Rose, Ed Bourck, and Grant Embree. Interment was in the Quincy Cemetery beside the husband of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, January 20, 1928, page 4
To this union were born eleven children, six of whom died in infancy and Iva, wife of F. A. Bixler of Corning, Iowa passed to the Great Beyond on July 17, 1898. Those who survive here are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. F. Jarvis, Frank Dewey, of Grant, Iowa, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
With the exception of four years spent in Nebraska, she has spent her entire life in Iowa and has made her home at Grant, Iowa for the past fifteen years.
She was a woman of much humility, quite and retiring, seldom equaled for patience and always thinking of the comfort and welfare of others than herself, as an example of her wonderful nature, she remarked during her last illness, “I do not know why I have to suffer so long, but I am not complaining. I have lived a great life, I am satisfied.”
For the last fifteen years, she has been confined to her home suffering from an affliction, which prevented her from visiting her friends and neighbors, which in former years was one of her great satisfactions. She has been a faithful member of the Methodist Church for fifty years, transferring her membership to her home church four years ago besides her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss oe brother, Perry Lemley, and two sisters, Mrs. Malissa Look and Mrs. Dora Randall all of Kalona, Iowa and a host of other relatives and friends.
Adams County Free Press, Friday, January 27, 1928, page 12
Mrs. Margaret C. DeWees, a resident of Grant fifteen years, died Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at her home there, her death resulting from heart trouble.
Margaret C. Lemley was born at Richmond, Iowa on February 19, 1846 and was 81 years old at her death. She was married to David DeWees in Washington County, Iowa, on February 6, 1867 and to this union eleven children were born, seven of whom are deceased. Those living are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. P, Jarvis, and Frank DeWees of Grant, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa. There are also two sisters and one brother of Kalona, Iowa. Mrs. DeWees husband preceded her in death.
Mrs. DeWees was a member of the Methodist Church for more than fifty years. Her funeral was held at her home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with Rev. Zumster of Columbia, Iowa, formerly pastor of the Grant Methodist Church in charge of services. He was assisted by Rev. A. Breeling of Grant and Rev. Spiller of Massena, Iowa.
The singing was by Mrs. Welch Pogue, Mrs. Virginia Strong, Fred Davis, and Robert Remig, and the pall bearers were Arthur Stinemates, Geo. Stinemates, Fred Kenworthy, Geo Rose, Ed Bourck, and Grant Embree. Interment was in the Quincy Cemetery beside the husband of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, January 20, 1928, page 4
Margaret Lemley Dewees was born at Richmond, Iowa, February 19, 1846 and departed this life at Grant, Iowa, January 14, 1928, aged 81 years, 10 months, 26 days. She lived the early part of her life in Washington, Iowa, where at the age of 18 she was united in marriage to David Dewees, February 6, 1867.
To this union were born eleven children, six of whom died in infancy and Iva, wife of F. A. Bixler of Corning, Iowa passed to the Great Beyond on July 17, 1898. Those who survive here are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. F. Jarvis, Frank Dewey, of Grant, Iowa, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
With the exception of four years spent in Nebraska, she has spent her entire life in Iowa and has made her home at Grant, Iowa for the past fifteen years.
She was a woman of much humility, quite and retiring, seldom equaled for patience and always thinking of the comfort and welfare of others than herself, as an example of her wonderful nature, she remarked during her last illness, “I do not know why I have to suffer so long, but I am not complaining. I have lived a great life, I am satisfied.”
For the last fifteen years, she has been confined to her home suffering from an affliction, which prevented her from visiting her friends and neighbors, which in former years was one of her great satisfactions. She has been a faithful member of the Methodist Church for fifty years, transferring her membership to her home church four years ago besides her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss oe brother, Perry Lemley, and two sisters, Mrs. Malissa Look and Mrs. Dora Randall all of Kalona, Iowa and a host of other relatives and friends.
Adams County Free Press, Friday, January 27, 1928, page 12
Mrs. Margaret C. DeWees, a resident of Grant fifteen years, died Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at her home there, her death resulting from heart trouble.
Margaret C. Lemley was born at Richmond, Iowa on February 19, 1846 and was 81 years old at her death. She was married to David DeWees in Washington County, Iowa, on February 6, 1867 and to this union eleven children were born, seven of whom are deceased. Those living are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. P, Jarvis, and Frank DeWees of Grant, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa. There are also two sisters and one brother of Kalona, Iowa. Mrs. DeWees husband preceded her in death.
Mrs. DeWees was a member of the Methodist Church for more than fifty years. Her funeral was held at her home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with Rev. Zumster of Columbia, Iowa, formerly pastor of the Grant Methodist Church in charge of services. He was assisted by Rev. A. Breeling of Grant and Rev. Spiller of Massena, Iowa.
The singing was by Mrs. Welch Pogue, Mrs. Virginia Strong, Fred Davis, and Robert Remig, and the pall bearers were Arthur Stinemates, Geo. Stinemates, Fred Kenworthy, Geo Rose, Ed Bourck, and Grant Embree. Interment was in the Quincy Cemetery beside the husband of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, January 20, 1928, page 4
To this union were born eleven children, six of whom died in infancy and Iva, wife of F. A. Bixler of Corning, Iowa passed to the Great Beyond on July 17, 1898. Those who survive here are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. F. Jarvis, Frank Dewey, of Grant, Iowa, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa, four grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.
With the exception of four years spent in Nebraska, she has spent her entire life in Iowa and has made her home at Grant, Iowa for the past fifteen years.
She was a woman of much humility, quite and retiring, seldom equaled for patience and always thinking of the comfort and welfare of others than herself, as an example of her wonderful nature, she remarked during her last illness, “I do not know why I have to suffer so long, but I am not complaining. I have lived a great life, I am satisfied.”
For the last fifteen years, she has been confined to her home suffering from an affliction, which prevented her from visiting her friends and neighbors, which in former years was one of her great satisfactions. She has been a faithful member of the Methodist Church for fifty years, transferring her membership to her home church four years ago besides her immediate family, she leaves to mourn her loss oe brother, Perry Lemley, and two sisters, Mrs. Malissa Look and Mrs. Dora Randall all of Kalona, Iowa and a host of other relatives and friends.
Adams County Free Press, Friday, January 27, 1928, page 12
Mrs. Margaret C. DeWees, a resident of Grant fifteen years, died Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at her home there, her death resulting from heart trouble.
Margaret C. Lemley was born at Richmond, Iowa on February 19, 1846 and was 81 years old at her death. She was married to David DeWees in Washington County, Iowa, on February 6, 1867 and to this union eleven children were born, seven of whom are deceased. Those living are Mrs. Chris Mahaffey, Mrs. C. P, Jarvis, and Frank DeWees of Grant, and Mrs. C. A. Miller of Massena, Iowa. There are also two sisters and one brother of Kalona, Iowa. Mrs. DeWees husband preceded her in death.
Mrs. DeWees was a member of the Methodist Church for more than fifty years. Her funeral was held at her home Tuesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with Rev. Zumster of Columbia, Iowa, formerly pastor of the Grant Methodist Church in charge of services. He was assisted by Rev. A. Breeling of Grant and Rev. Spiller of Massena, Iowa.
The singing was by Mrs. Welch Pogue, Mrs. Virginia Strong, Fred Davis, and Robert Remig, and the pall bearers were Arthur Stinemates, Geo. Stinemates, Fred Kenworthy, Geo Rose, Ed Bourck, and Grant Embree. Interment was in the Quincy Cemetery beside the husband of the deceased.
Villisca Review, Friday, January 20, 1928, page 4
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