She is the daughter of Nancy (Hanks) and William Miller who are buried in Millersburg Cemetery in Des Moines County, Iowa.
MT. PLEASANT WOMAN DIES--Mrs. Lucretta Chandler, Aged 92, Passes Away After Long Illness.
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa March 21.-This morning at the home of Mrs. T.L. White occurred the death of Mrs. Lucretta Chandler. She was nearly ninety-two years of age and was born in Des Moines county, one of the first white children to be born in the county. She was well known here as "Grandma Chandler," she having for some time made her home with her daughter, Mrs. T. L. White on West Monroe Street.
Mrs. Chandler grew up in the neighborhood of Danville, Iowa where she married and reared a fine family of eleven children, eight of whom survive her. She was a member of the First Baptist church of Danville,Iowa. Last October she suffered a paralytic stroke and since that time
has been quite helpless much of the time, her death marking the end of a long period of illness.
She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Mayme Kelly of Ames, Mrs. Nancy Chadwick of Washington, Iowa and Mrs. T.L. White of this city; and five sons, Everett of Cedar Rapids, Frank, Jim, Will and John of Danville,also twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-eight great grandchildren and
three great great grandchildren.
Short services will be held at the T.L. White home in this city. Thursday at 12:30 after which the remains will be taken to Danville where funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church at two o'clock, with interment in Prairie Grove cemetery [should be Pleasant Grove Cemetery]west of Danville.
Burlington Hawk Eye Thursday morning March 22, 1928, page 3
She is the daughter of Nancy (Hanks) and William Miller who are buried in Millersburg Cemetery in Des Moines County, Iowa.
MT. PLEASANT WOMAN DIES--Mrs. Lucretta Chandler, Aged 92, Passes Away After Long Illness.
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa March 21.-This morning at the home of Mrs. T.L. White occurred the death of Mrs. Lucretta Chandler. She was nearly ninety-two years of age and was born in Des Moines county, one of the first white children to be born in the county. She was well known here as "Grandma Chandler," she having for some time made her home with her daughter, Mrs. T. L. White on West Monroe Street.
Mrs. Chandler grew up in the neighborhood of Danville, Iowa where she married and reared a fine family of eleven children, eight of whom survive her. She was a member of the First Baptist church of Danville,Iowa. Last October she suffered a paralytic stroke and since that time
has been quite helpless much of the time, her death marking the end of a long period of illness.
She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Mayme Kelly of Ames, Mrs. Nancy Chadwick of Washington, Iowa and Mrs. T.L. White of this city; and five sons, Everett of Cedar Rapids, Frank, Jim, Will and John of Danville,also twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-eight great grandchildren and
three great great grandchildren.
Short services will be held at the T.L. White home in this city. Thursday at 12:30 after which the remains will be taken to Danville where funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church at two o'clock, with interment in Prairie Grove cemetery [should be Pleasant Grove Cemetery]west of Danville.
Burlington Hawk Eye Thursday morning March 22, 1928, page 3
Family Members
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Lucretia Miller Miller
1815–1893
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Elizabeth Miller See
1819–1865
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Joel Miller
1820–1848
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Mahala Miller Mathis
1821–1905
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Rebecca Miller Smith
1823–1882
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Charles Miller
1824–1912
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John L. Miller
1826–1901
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Celia Miller Monarch
1828–1901
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William A Miller
1830–1917
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Nancy A. Miller Hale
1832–1915
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James Fielding Miller
1833–1908
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Sophronia Jane Chandler Foster
1857–1921
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Nancy Jemima Chandler Chadwick
1860–1937
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Ruth Olive Chandler
1863–1864
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Frank K. Chandler
1865–1946
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William H Chandler
1867–1949
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Elihu Chandler
1869–1869
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James S. Chandler
1870–1957
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John O. Chandler
1874–1945
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Ora Belle Chandler White
1875–1975
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Mary Alice "Mayme" Chandler Kelly
1878–1969
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Everett Chandler
1883–1964
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