OLD SETTLER ANSWERS GRIM REAPER'S CALL
Mrs.Harriet Reager Buried last Friday, Was One of Earliest Pioneers in Community
Harriet Reager was born Dec. 28, 1846 at Buckhanau, Taylor Co., Iowa. She was married in Winterset, Iowa on Dec. 28, 1866 to James H. Reager (and divorced in April 1895). To their union were born six children of whom four are living, two having died in infancy.
In 1870 she moved with her husband to O'Brien county and located on a homestead, five miles south of Sutherland. Twelve years later she moved to town and for a number of years conducted a hotel here. She went to Geise, N. Dak. in 1912 near which place she filed on a homestead and was able to prove up on same just a few days before coming back to Sutherland in May.
The deceased was stricken with what proved to be her last illness before coming back to this, the old home place, and alter much suffering died here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Sheaffer, on July 16, 1916. She leaves to mourn her death four children, Mrs. Annie Guenther of Dagmar, Mont. W. L. Reager of Bowman, N Dak., Mrs. Elsie Clift and Mrs. Alice Sheaffer of Sutherland, also seventeen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and three sisters besides numerous friends.
Sutherland Courier 27 July 1916
Mrs.Harriet Reager Buried last Friday, Was One of Earliest Pioneers in Community
Harriet Reager was born Dec. 28, 1846 at Buckhanau, Taylor Co., Iowa. She was married in Winterset, Iowa on Dec. 28, 1866 to James H. Reager (and divorced in April 1895). To their union were born six children of whom four are living, two having died in infancy.
In 1870 she moved with her husband to O'Brien county and located on a homestead, five miles south of Sutherland. Twelve years later she moved to town and for a number of years conducted a hotel here. She went to Geise, N. Dak. in 1912 near which place she filed on a homestead and was able to prove up on same just a few days before coming back to Sutherland in May.
The deceased was stricken with what proved to be her last illness before coming back to this, the old home place, and alter much suffering died here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Sheaffer, on July 16, 1916. She leaves to mourn her death four children, Mrs. Annie Guenther of Dagmar, Mont. W. L. Reager of Bowman, N Dak., Mrs. Elsie Clift and Mrs. Alice Sheaffer of Sutherland, also seventeen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and three sisters besides numerous friends.
Sutherland Courier 27 July 1916
OLD SETTLER ANSWERS GRIM REAPER'S CALL
Mrs.Harriet Reager Buried last Friday, Was One of Earliest Pioneers in Community
Harriet Reager was born Dec. 28, 1846 at Buckhanau, Taylor Co., Iowa. She was married in Winterset, Iowa on Dec. 28, 1866 to James H. Reager (and divorced in April 1895). To their union were born six children of whom four are living, two having died in infancy.
In 1870 she moved with her husband to O'Brien county and located on a homestead, five miles south of Sutherland. Twelve years later she moved to town and for a number of years conducted a hotel here. She went to Geise, N. Dak. in 1912 near which place she filed on a homestead and was able to prove up on same just a few days before coming back to Sutherland in May.
The deceased was stricken with what proved to be her last illness before coming back to this, the old home place, and alter much suffering died here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Sheaffer, on July 16, 1916. She leaves to mourn her death four children, Mrs. Annie Guenther of Dagmar, Mont. W. L. Reager of Bowman, N Dak., Mrs. Elsie Clift and Mrs. Alice Sheaffer of Sutherland, also seventeen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and three sisters besides numerous friends.
Sutherland Courier 27 July 1916
Mrs.Harriet Reager Buried last Friday, Was One of Earliest Pioneers in Community
Harriet Reager was born Dec. 28, 1846 at Buckhanau, Taylor Co., Iowa. She was married in Winterset, Iowa on Dec. 28, 1866 to James H. Reager (and divorced in April 1895). To their union were born six children of whom four are living, two having died in infancy.
In 1870 she moved with her husband to O'Brien county and located on a homestead, five miles south of Sutherland. Twelve years later she moved to town and for a number of years conducted a hotel here. She went to Geise, N. Dak. in 1912 near which place she filed on a homestead and was able to prove up on same just a few days before coming back to Sutherland in May.
The deceased was stricken with what proved to be her last illness before coming back to this, the old home place, and alter much suffering died here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Sheaffer, on July 16, 1916. She leaves to mourn her death four children, Mrs. Annie Guenther of Dagmar, Mont. W. L. Reager of Bowman, N Dak., Mrs. Elsie Clift and Mrs. Alice Sheaffer of Sutherland, also seventeen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and three sisters besides numerous friends.
Sutherland Courier 27 July 1916
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