LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 26, 1925
LAVINA J. LOGAN
---On November 15, 1853, Lavina Jane Simmons was born in Timappity Bottom, Henderson County, Illinois. She grew to womanhood in that community, having received a public school education.
---On the 11th day of April, 1875, she was united in marriage to James McCarty Logan. To this union were born five children, Edgar Harris, Andrew Wesley, Edith Mable, Martin Simmons and George Amos, Andrew having preceded her to that better world in 1909. Her husband died July 27, 1921. There were seven grandchildren, Dale Sweeney, at the age of four years, preceded her in 1907.
---Shortly after her marriage she and her husband moved to Bloomfield, Iowa where all the children were born except Edgar who was born in Weaver, Iowa, they having lived there a little over a year.
---While in Bloomfield she gave her heart to Christ, feeling the need of one to guide her spiritually and the need of a Savior to help rear her children and bring them up under a christian influence, united with the Methodist Church. She always maintained this attitude toward her family, was zealous in church work, feeling it was her duty, then duty developed into pleasure and love for the work. Having served in the Sunday School as a teacher of boys, seen them grow to manhood, some of them serving the Master as she desired them to do. For a number of years she served as resident of the Ladies Aid at La Plata, Missouri where she lived sixteen years. There was where she did most of her church work.
The Paris Mercury, Paris, Missouri
LA PLATA WOMAN WHO DIES WRITES HER OWN OBITUARY
MRS. J. M. LOGAN DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
La Plata, Mo., Feb. 27. Mrs. J. M. Logan, 71, whose funeral took place here Monday, wrote her own obituary before her death in a Moberly hospital, Friday, following an operation the preceding day. Mr. and Mrs. Logan were residence of La Plata for 16 years, he coming here as Wabash agent in 1895. Mrs. Logan was president of the Methodist Ladies' Aid society for 15 years. She taught a young men's class in Sunday school, and many recall her excellent influence. Her body lay in state at the B. H. Blanchard home until 10 a.m., when funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church by Rev. J. W. Harper, her pastor of La Plata.
Mrs. Logan had been keeping house for her brother-in-law at Shellenburg, Ia., the past year. Mr. Logan died about four years ago. One son, Andrew, died in La Plata several years ago. Her mother, 93 years old, still lives. She has seven grandchildren. The children are Mrs. David Sweeney and Amos Logan, Moberly; Martin Logan, Winterset, Ia., and ed Logan, Boone, Ia.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society and Pam Witherow)
February 26, 1925
LAVINA J. LOGAN
---On November 15, 1853, Lavina Jane Simmons was born in Timappity Bottom, Henderson County, Illinois. She grew to womanhood in that community, having received a public school education.
---On the 11th day of April, 1875, she was united in marriage to James McCarty Logan. To this union were born five children, Edgar Harris, Andrew Wesley, Edith Mable, Martin Simmons and George Amos, Andrew having preceded her to that better world in 1909. Her husband died July 27, 1921. There were seven grandchildren, Dale Sweeney, at the age of four years, preceded her in 1907.
---Shortly after her marriage she and her husband moved to Bloomfield, Iowa where all the children were born except Edgar who was born in Weaver, Iowa, they having lived there a little over a year.
---While in Bloomfield she gave her heart to Christ, feeling the need of one to guide her spiritually and the need of a Savior to help rear her children and bring them up under a christian influence, united with the Methodist Church. She always maintained this attitude toward her family, was zealous in church work, feeling it was her duty, then duty developed into pleasure and love for the work. Having served in the Sunday School as a teacher of boys, seen them grow to manhood, some of them serving the Master as she desired them to do. For a number of years she served as resident of the Ladies Aid at La Plata, Missouri where she lived sixteen years. There was where she did most of her church work.
The Paris Mercury, Paris, Missouri
LA PLATA WOMAN WHO DIES WRITES HER OWN OBITUARY
MRS. J. M. LOGAN DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
La Plata, Mo., Feb. 27. Mrs. J. M. Logan, 71, whose funeral took place here Monday, wrote her own obituary before her death in a Moberly hospital, Friday, following an operation the preceding day. Mr. and Mrs. Logan were residence of La Plata for 16 years, he coming here as Wabash agent in 1895. Mrs. Logan was president of the Methodist Ladies' Aid society for 15 years. She taught a young men's class in Sunday school, and many recall her excellent influence. Her body lay in state at the B. H. Blanchard home until 10 a.m., when funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church by Rev. J. W. Harper, her pastor of La Plata.
Mrs. Logan had been keeping house for her brother-in-law at Shellenburg, Ia., the past year. Mr. Logan died about four years ago. One son, Andrew, died in La Plata several years ago. Her mother, 93 years old, still lives. She has seven grandchildren. The children are Mrs. David Sweeney and Amos Logan, Moberly; Martin Logan, Winterset, Ia., and ed Logan, Boone, Ia.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society and Pam Witherow)
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
February 26, 1925
LAVINA J. LOGAN
---On November 15, 1853, Lavina Jane Simmons was born in Timappity Bottom, Henderson County, Illinois. She grew to womanhood in that community, having received a public school education.
---On the 11th day of April, 1875, she was united in marriage to James McCarty Logan. To this union were born five children, Edgar Harris, Andrew Wesley, Edith Mable, Martin Simmons and George Amos, Andrew having preceded her to that better world in 1909. Her husband died July 27, 1921. There were seven grandchildren, Dale Sweeney, at the age of four years, preceded her in 1907.
---Shortly after her marriage she and her husband moved to Bloomfield, Iowa where all the children were born except Edgar who was born in Weaver, Iowa, they having lived there a little over a year.
---While in Bloomfield she gave her heart to Christ, feeling the need of one to guide her spiritually and the need of a Savior to help rear her children and bring them up under a christian influence, united with the Methodist Church. She always maintained this attitude toward her family, was zealous in church work, feeling it was her duty, then duty developed into pleasure and love for the work. Having served in the Sunday School as a teacher of boys, seen them grow to manhood, some of them serving the Master as she desired them to do. For a number of years she served as resident of the Ladies Aid at La Plata, Missouri where she lived sixteen years. There was where she did most of her church work.
The Paris Mercury, Paris, Missouri
LA PLATA WOMAN WHO DIES WRITES HER OWN OBITUARY
MRS. J. M. LOGAN DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
La Plata, Mo., Feb. 27. Mrs. J. M. Logan, 71, whose funeral took place here Monday, wrote her own obituary before her death in a Moberly hospital, Friday, following an operation the preceding day. Mr. and Mrs. Logan were residence of La Plata for 16 years, he coming here as Wabash agent in 1895. Mrs. Logan was president of the Methodist Ladies' Aid society for 15 years. She taught a young men's class in Sunday school, and many recall her excellent influence. Her body lay in state at the B. H. Blanchard home until 10 a.m., when funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church by Rev. J. W. Harper, her pastor of La Plata.
Mrs. Logan had been keeping house for her brother-in-law at Shellenburg, Ia., the past year. Mr. Logan died about four years ago. One son, Andrew, died in La Plata several years ago. Her mother, 93 years old, still lives. She has seven grandchildren. The children are Mrs. David Sweeney and Amos Logan, Moberly; Martin Logan, Winterset, Ia., and ed Logan, Boone, Ia.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society and Pam Witherow)
February 26, 1925
LAVINA J. LOGAN
---On November 15, 1853, Lavina Jane Simmons was born in Timappity Bottom, Henderson County, Illinois. She grew to womanhood in that community, having received a public school education.
---On the 11th day of April, 1875, she was united in marriage to James McCarty Logan. To this union were born five children, Edgar Harris, Andrew Wesley, Edith Mable, Martin Simmons and George Amos, Andrew having preceded her to that better world in 1909. Her husband died July 27, 1921. There were seven grandchildren, Dale Sweeney, at the age of four years, preceded her in 1907.
---Shortly after her marriage she and her husband moved to Bloomfield, Iowa where all the children were born except Edgar who was born in Weaver, Iowa, they having lived there a little over a year.
---While in Bloomfield she gave her heart to Christ, feeling the need of one to guide her spiritually and the need of a Savior to help rear her children and bring them up under a christian influence, united with the Methodist Church. She always maintained this attitude toward her family, was zealous in church work, feeling it was her duty, then duty developed into pleasure and love for the work. Having served in the Sunday School as a teacher of boys, seen them grow to manhood, some of them serving the Master as she desired them to do. For a number of years she served as resident of the Ladies Aid at La Plata, Missouri where she lived sixteen years. There was where she did most of her church work.
The Paris Mercury, Paris, Missouri
LA PLATA WOMAN WHO DIES WRITES HER OWN OBITUARY
MRS. J. M. LOGAN DIED AT THE AGE OF 71 YEARS.
La Plata, Mo., Feb. 27. Mrs. J. M. Logan, 71, whose funeral took place here Monday, wrote her own obituary before her death in a Moberly hospital, Friday, following an operation the preceding day. Mr. and Mrs. Logan were residence of La Plata for 16 years, he coming here as Wabash agent in 1895. Mrs. Logan was president of the Methodist Ladies' Aid society for 15 years. She taught a young men's class in Sunday school, and many recall her excellent influence. Her body lay in state at the B. H. Blanchard home until 10 a.m., when funeral services were conducted at the M. E. church by Rev. J. W. Harper, her pastor of La Plata.
Mrs. Logan had been keeping house for her brother-in-law at Shellenburg, Ia., the past year. Mr. Logan died about four years ago. One son, Andrew, died in La Plata several years ago. Her mother, 93 years old, still lives. She has seven grandchildren. The children are Mrs. David Sweeney and Amos Logan, Moberly; Martin Logan, Winterset, Ia., and ed Logan, Boone, Ia.
(Contributed by Shelby County (MO) Historical Society and Pam Witherow)
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