The Scotia Register
Volume XXXIII, Thursday, June 2, 1927, pg. 1, column 5
Mrs. J. D. Watt Passes Away Saturday
Harriet P. McGervey was born at Xenia, O., May 11, 1839. She was married in 1858 to Jacob D. Watt and for a number of years her home was at Lima, O., that being the birthplace of her eleven children, one of whom died in infancy.
Having decided to move to Nebraska they arrived at Scotia August 1, 1885, where the deceased resided with her family till after the death of her husband in 1906, when with several of her children she went to live in Omaha,
For the past four years she has been a bed-fast patient, but in spite of this fact always most patient and uncomplaining and an inspiration to everyone, especially to her children, each of whom made frequent pilgrimages to her bedside. Her final sickness lasted but four days and she passed away Saturday morning, May 28, 1927.
She had passed her 88th birthday on May 11, when she was able to greet a number of her friends who called upon her. Therefore at her death her age was 88 years and 17 days.
She left to mourn her loss ten children, four sons, Charles E., Chicago, Ill.; Harmon H., Western Springs, Ill.; Fred J. Joliet, Ill.; Arthur M., Omaha; and six daughters: Mrs. Minnie True, Omaha; Mrs. Louella Tolbert, Kearney; Mrs. Harriet Duerr, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Emma Bennitt, St. Joseph, Mo.; Miss Bess Watt, Omaha, Mrs. Helen Plantz, Rushville. Sixteen grand children, four great grand children and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Chew, of Xenia, O., besides a wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at the home in Omaha on the afternoon of Memorial Sunday. Nine of her children, other relatives and a houseful of friends being there to pay tribute to her memory.
The body was accompanied to Scotia by eight children and a grand daughter on Monday, May 30. A host of old friends met the funeral party at the station and accompanied them to Mt. Hope Cemetery, where under a smiling sky in a place made beautiful by Decoration Day flowers and flags, her body was laid to rest.
Volume XXXIII, Thursday, June 2, 1927, pg. 1, column 5
Mrs. J. D. Watt Passes Away Saturday
Harriet P. McGervey was born at Xenia, O., May 11, 1839. She was married in 1858 to Jacob D. Watt and for a number of years her home was at Lima, O., that being the birthplace of her eleven children, one of whom died in infancy.
Having decided to move to Nebraska they arrived at Scotia August 1, 1885, where the deceased resided with her family till after the death of her husband in 1906, when with several of her children she went to live in Omaha,
For the past four years she has been a bed-fast patient, but in spite of this fact always most patient and uncomplaining and an inspiration to everyone, especially to her children, each of whom made frequent pilgrimages to her bedside. Her final sickness lasted but four days and she passed away Saturday morning, May 28, 1927.
She had passed her 88th birthday on May 11, when she was able to greet a number of her friends who called upon her. Therefore at her death her age was 88 years and 17 days.
She left to mourn her loss ten children, four sons, Charles E., Chicago, Ill.; Harmon H., Western Springs, Ill.; Fred J. Joliet, Ill.; Arthur M., Omaha; and six daughters: Mrs. Minnie True, Omaha; Mrs. Louella Tolbert, Kearney; Mrs. Harriet Duerr, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Emma Bennitt, St. Joseph, Mo.; Miss Bess Watt, Omaha, Mrs. Helen Plantz, Rushville. Sixteen grand children, four great grand children and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Chew, of Xenia, O., besides a wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at the home in Omaha on the afternoon of Memorial Sunday. Nine of her children, other relatives and a houseful of friends being there to pay tribute to her memory.
The body was accompanied to Scotia by eight children and a grand daughter on Monday, May 30. A host of old friends met the funeral party at the station and accompanied them to Mt. Hope Cemetery, where under a smiling sky in a place made beautiful by Decoration Day flowers and flags, her body was laid to rest.
The Scotia Register
Volume XXXIII, Thursday, June 2, 1927, pg. 1, column 5
Mrs. J. D. Watt Passes Away Saturday
Harriet P. McGervey was born at Xenia, O., May 11, 1839. She was married in 1858 to Jacob D. Watt and for a number of years her home was at Lima, O., that being the birthplace of her eleven children, one of whom died in infancy.
Having decided to move to Nebraska they arrived at Scotia August 1, 1885, where the deceased resided with her family till after the death of her husband in 1906, when with several of her children she went to live in Omaha,
For the past four years she has been a bed-fast patient, but in spite of this fact always most patient and uncomplaining and an inspiration to everyone, especially to her children, each of whom made frequent pilgrimages to her bedside. Her final sickness lasted but four days and she passed away Saturday morning, May 28, 1927.
She had passed her 88th birthday on May 11, when she was able to greet a number of her friends who called upon her. Therefore at her death her age was 88 years and 17 days.
She left to mourn her loss ten children, four sons, Charles E., Chicago, Ill.; Harmon H., Western Springs, Ill.; Fred J. Joliet, Ill.; Arthur M., Omaha; and six daughters: Mrs. Minnie True, Omaha; Mrs. Louella Tolbert, Kearney; Mrs. Harriet Duerr, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Emma Bennitt, St. Joseph, Mo.; Miss Bess Watt, Omaha, Mrs. Helen Plantz, Rushville. Sixteen grand children, four great grand children and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Chew, of Xenia, O., besides a wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at the home in Omaha on the afternoon of Memorial Sunday. Nine of her children, other relatives and a houseful of friends being there to pay tribute to her memory.
The body was accompanied to Scotia by eight children and a grand daughter on Monday, May 30. A host of old friends met the funeral party at the station and accompanied them to Mt. Hope Cemetery, where under a smiling sky in a place made beautiful by Decoration Day flowers and flags, her body was laid to rest.
Volume XXXIII, Thursday, June 2, 1927, pg. 1, column 5
Mrs. J. D. Watt Passes Away Saturday
Harriet P. McGervey was born at Xenia, O., May 11, 1839. She was married in 1858 to Jacob D. Watt and for a number of years her home was at Lima, O., that being the birthplace of her eleven children, one of whom died in infancy.
Having decided to move to Nebraska they arrived at Scotia August 1, 1885, where the deceased resided with her family till after the death of her husband in 1906, when with several of her children she went to live in Omaha,
For the past four years she has been a bed-fast patient, but in spite of this fact always most patient and uncomplaining and an inspiration to everyone, especially to her children, each of whom made frequent pilgrimages to her bedside. Her final sickness lasted but four days and she passed away Saturday morning, May 28, 1927.
She had passed her 88th birthday on May 11, when she was able to greet a number of her friends who called upon her. Therefore at her death her age was 88 years and 17 days.
She left to mourn her loss ten children, four sons, Charles E., Chicago, Ill.; Harmon H., Western Springs, Ill.; Fred J. Joliet, Ill.; Arthur M., Omaha; and six daughters: Mrs. Minnie True, Omaha; Mrs. Louella Tolbert, Kearney; Mrs. Harriet Duerr, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Emma Bennitt, St. Joseph, Mo.; Miss Bess Watt, Omaha, Mrs. Helen Plantz, Rushville. Sixteen grand children, four great grand children and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Chew, of Xenia, O., besides a wide circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at the home in Omaha on the afternoon of Memorial Sunday. Nine of her children, other relatives and a houseful of friends being there to pay tribute to her memory.
The body was accompanied to Scotia by eight children and a grand daughter on Monday, May 30. A host of old friends met the funeral party at the station and accompanied them to Mt. Hope Cemetery, where under a smiling sky in a place made beautiful by Decoration Day flowers and flags, her body was laid to rest.
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