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Melville Mordecai Gaunce

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Melville Mordecai Gaunce

Birth
Headquarters, Nicholas County, Kentucky, USA
Death
18 Dec 1912 (aged 79)
Okmulgee, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 8,165
Memorial ID
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Husband of Sarah; name not on stone but cemetery records indicate they are buried in same plot.

Melville Mordecai Gaunce. Among the numerous well-edited papers of Xenia is the Democrat-News, of which Mr. Gaunce is the editor and proprietor. His father is Martin Gaunce. Our subject remained at the homestead until eighteen years of age, when he became a student at Asbury, now DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., at which institution he remained for two years. He then entered upon a course of study at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, being graduated from it in 1858. The following year he attended the Law School at Albany, N. Y., from which he received his diploma as a graduate in June, 1859. Mr. Gaunce was married in June, 1880, to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Abraham and Mary A. (Stewart) Roseberry, of Dayton, Ohio.
[Contr. by member #46621490]
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Died, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1912, at his home in Okmulgee, Okla., after a lingering illness of a complication of diseases, M. M. Gaunce, formerly of this city, aged 83 years. The deceased was born in Ohio, and came to this state eight or nine years ago. He was, at one time, a resident of this city. He has no survivors in Springfield. The body will be forwarded to this city and is expected to arrive some time to-day.

IL State Register, Dec. 21, 1912
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The remains of M. M. Gaunce, who died Wednesday, December 18, 1912, at the family residence at Okuglee [sic], Okla, arrived in this city yesterday morning, and were taken to the Oak Ridge cemetery, where the interment was made, besides the remains of his wife. The services were in charge of the Springfield Lodge No. 44, A. F. & A. M.

IL State Journal, Dec 22, 1912
Husband of Sarah; name not on stone but cemetery records indicate they are buried in same plot.

Melville Mordecai Gaunce. Among the numerous well-edited papers of Xenia is the Democrat-News, of which Mr. Gaunce is the editor and proprietor. His father is Martin Gaunce. Our subject remained at the homestead until eighteen years of age, when he became a student at Asbury, now DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind., at which institution he remained for two years. He then entered upon a course of study at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, being graduated from it in 1858. The following year he attended the Law School at Albany, N. Y., from which he received his diploma as a graduate in June, 1859. Mr. Gaunce was married in June, 1880, to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Abraham and Mary A. (Stewart) Roseberry, of Dayton, Ohio.
[Contr. by member #46621490]
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Died, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1912, at his home in Okmulgee, Okla., after a lingering illness of a complication of diseases, M. M. Gaunce, formerly of this city, aged 83 years. The deceased was born in Ohio, and came to this state eight or nine years ago. He was, at one time, a resident of this city. He has no survivors in Springfield. The body will be forwarded to this city and is expected to arrive some time to-day.

IL State Register, Dec. 21, 1912
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The remains of M. M. Gaunce, who died Wednesday, December 18, 1912, at the family residence at Okuglee [sic], Okla, arrived in this city yesterday morning, and were taken to the Oak Ridge cemetery, where the interment was made, besides the remains of his wife. The services were in charge of the Springfield Lodge No. 44, A. F. & A. M.

IL State Journal, Dec 22, 1912


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