Friday, November 24, 1916,
Page Three, Column one.
Mrs. Jacob Van Etta.
Mary Nichols, wife of Jacob Van Etta, died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Morrell, No. 12 Minaville street, after a brief illness. Mrs. Van Etta was in her 60th year and was a daughter of Hiram and Mary Nichols, of Canajoharie, but passed most of her life in Fort Plain. She was married 14 years ago and was the mother of fifteen children, of whom seven survive.
Mrs. Van Etta leaves her husband, her mother, Mrs. Mary Nichols, of Canajoharie, four daughters Mrs. Joseph Morrell and Miss Ethel Van Etta, of Amsterdam; Mrs. Thomas Conrad and Mrs. Roy Ferguson of Fort Plain,; three sons, Alfred, of Fort Plain, and Hiram and John, of Amsterdam; two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Hibbard and Mrs. Edward Brown, both of Canajoharie, and two brothers, John Nichols of Cape Vincent, and David Nichols, of Canajoharie. There are eight grandchildren.
The body will be taken to Fort Plain, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at the Catherine Nellis Memorial chapel and interment will be in the Fort Plain cemetery.
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Per Find A Grave member: Addie #47097158.
This stone was by itself behind her children, Jacob, Edward, Charles, Chester and Lizzie. If her husband Jacob is buried here in Fort Plain Cemetery he either does not have a stone or is not buried near his wife and children.
Friday, November 24, 1916,
Page Three, Column one.
Mrs. Jacob Van Etta.
Mary Nichols, wife of Jacob Van Etta, died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Morrell, No. 12 Minaville street, after a brief illness. Mrs. Van Etta was in her 60th year and was a daughter of Hiram and Mary Nichols, of Canajoharie, but passed most of her life in Fort Plain. She was married 14 years ago and was the mother of fifteen children, of whom seven survive.
Mrs. Van Etta leaves her husband, her mother, Mrs. Mary Nichols, of Canajoharie, four daughters Mrs. Joseph Morrell and Miss Ethel Van Etta, of Amsterdam; Mrs. Thomas Conrad and Mrs. Roy Ferguson of Fort Plain,; three sons, Alfred, of Fort Plain, and Hiram and John, of Amsterdam; two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Hibbard and Mrs. Edward Brown, both of Canajoharie, and two brothers, John Nichols of Cape Vincent, and David Nichols, of Canajoharie. There are eight grandchildren.
The body will be taken to Fort Plain, where the funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at the Catherine Nellis Memorial chapel and interment will be in the Fort Plain cemetery.
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Per Find A Grave member: Addie #47097158.
This stone was by itself behind her children, Jacob, Edward, Charles, Chester and Lizzie. If her husband Jacob is buried here in Fort Plain Cemetery he either does not have a stone or is not buried near his wife and children.
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Mary C. Nichols
Wife of Jacob Van Etta
1856-1916
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