Died, Saturday afternoon, April 8th, 1893, at 2 0’clock, at Watseka, IL, Ida Vennum Bell, wife of J.M. Bell, in the 31st year of her age. Funeral services were held at the M. E. Church Monday, April 10th, 1893, at 11 o’clock a.m., conducted by Rev. Samuel Light. Remains were placed in the Vennum Cemetery near Milford.
Ida Vennum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Vennum of Belmont Township, and was born at the family home in 1863. Her father was born in 1837 also in Iroquois County, at a time when the white population of the county was very small indeed. The Vennum family is one of the oldest and best known in the county and connected by blood and marriage with a great number of people.
Miss Vennum was married Feb. 16, 1887 to J. M. Bell who survives her. The family lived in Watseka to the time of her death. Two children were born to the marriage, Eva and Florence, now left motherless. They are aged respectively five and three years.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Church and her last hours were cheered by the Christian’s hope. She was a devoted mother, not only to her own children but to her husband’s children by a former marriage who owe much to her and who loved her as their own mother. A very great concourse of friends and neighbors attended the funeral at the church and many were present at the burial in the Vennum Cemetery. The whole community was saddened by the death of one so young, so useful in the world and whose character and disposition made her so dear to all who came in contact with her.
Contributed by ginny lee (#47493900)
Ida Vennum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Vennum of Belmont Township, and was born at the family home in 1863. Her father was born in 1837 also in Iroquois County, at a time when the white population of the county was very small indeed. The Vennum family is one of the oldest and best known in the county and connected by blood and marriage with a great number of people.
Miss Vennum was married Feb. 16, 1887 to J. M. Bell who survives her. The family lived in Watseka to the time of her death. Two children were born to the marriage, Eva and Florence, now left motherless. They are aged respectively five and three years.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Church and her last hours were cheered by the Christian’s hope. She was a devoted mother, not only to her own children but to her husband’s children by a former marriage who owe much to her and who loved her as their own mother. A very great concourse of friends and neighbors attended the funeral at the church and many were present at the burial in the Vennum Cemetery. The whole community was saddened by the death of one so young, so useful in the world and whose character and disposition made her so dear to all who came in contact with her.
Contributed by ginny lee (#47493900)
Died, Saturday afternoon, April 8th, 1893, at 2 0’clock, at Watseka, IL, Ida Vennum Bell, wife of J.M. Bell, in the 31st year of her age. Funeral services were held at the M. E. Church Monday, April 10th, 1893, at 11 o’clock a.m., conducted by Rev. Samuel Light. Remains were placed in the Vennum Cemetery near Milford.
Ida Vennum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Vennum of Belmont Township, and was born at the family home in 1863. Her father was born in 1837 also in Iroquois County, at a time when the white population of the county was very small indeed. The Vennum family is one of the oldest and best known in the county and connected by blood and marriage with a great number of people.
Miss Vennum was married Feb. 16, 1887 to J. M. Bell who survives her. The family lived in Watseka to the time of her death. Two children were born to the marriage, Eva and Florence, now left motherless. They are aged respectively five and three years.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Church and her last hours were cheered by the Christian’s hope. She was a devoted mother, not only to her own children but to her husband’s children by a former marriage who owe much to her and who loved her as their own mother. A very great concourse of friends and neighbors attended the funeral at the church and many were present at the burial in the Vennum Cemetery. The whole community was saddened by the death of one so young, so useful in the world and whose character and disposition made her so dear to all who came in contact with her.
Contributed by ginny lee (#47493900)
Ida Vennum was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Vennum of Belmont Township, and was born at the family home in 1863. Her father was born in 1837 also in Iroquois County, at a time when the white population of the county was very small indeed. The Vennum family is one of the oldest and best known in the county and connected by blood and marriage with a great number of people.
Miss Vennum was married Feb. 16, 1887 to J. M. Bell who survives her. The family lived in Watseka to the time of her death. Two children were born to the marriage, Eva and Florence, now left motherless. They are aged respectively five and three years.
Deceased was a member of the Methodist Church and her last hours were cheered by the Christian’s hope. She was a devoted mother, not only to her own children but to her husband’s children by a former marriage who owe much to her and who loved her as their own mother. A very great concourse of friends and neighbors attended the funeral at the church and many were present at the burial in the Vennum Cemetery. The whole community was saddened by the death of one so young, so useful in the world and whose character and disposition made her so dear to all who came in contact with her.
Contributed by ginny lee (#47493900)
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