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OBITUARY.Mary 'Miles Flowers was born in York county, iPa., [April J, 1S4U, ana died at her home in Brooks, Jowa. at 2:20 p. zn. Sunday, August 16, 1925, aged S3 years, 4 months and 13 days. At the jage of pne year she, with her parents, moved to Monroe * county, Ohio, where they resided tmtll 1S6S* when they removed overland to Wheeling, W. Va., there taking a steamboat and after three {weeks jon the river they reached Council ^Bluffs,1 owK7''trannwhtch'-pcrlntrdhc^ travered overland (by team and located on a farm about two miles north of Brooks, where she was united in marriage to James W. Dawson, the marriage ceremony li av ing beeh perfonned by Her. Joseph Peregrine, in a little log cabin, which jwaa the second log cabin ’built In Adams county.Later she yemoved, with her husband, to a farm so\itli of Corning.is farm, where theyrresided about two ^ears and then located in Brooks In {November, 1S70, where she has since resiedr Thehu^aud preceded heFln' deiitn rs orexu-her S, 1919. fFo this union \\ chil-1 dren Were horn. /They .are Cassius, of , Brooks; Emerson, of Omaha, Nebr.; [Ira F.( of Washington. D, C.;Miss Ethel, who lived at the Brooks hornet CarUortv-'wbo died. In hitamcy,and *Mrs. Daisy lMadsQii.'^t CMt. Clem** * ena/Mich.^Mrs. Dawson fwu the oldest resident j of Brooks, both In age and length of | residence, she having resided there ^ I continuously for the past -55 years. 11 Ksa'| She leaves1 to toourn thalr loss the five II naM living children mentioned, all of II Laa* rwhom rwere in httendanco at the fun-11'tha^lChHatlan^hiirch pr Srbote 37 years and alnco that time he*-life has he oh 'eiub 1 emat I c of - truer Christian c:ketcharacter and fortitude*.For many years jahe snffered fromaliments Incident to approaching old q pgp nnd for the Ipaat IS years was able. ii to wnlk ’pnly writh the aid of a crutch, v Her recent serious illness was of comparatively short duration, she having been'Stricken dangerously on 'the day preceding her death, when her heart action ibegan to whS|ch Anallyended-ln_.h£r. passingAWay^on^Sunday afternoon.Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in {Brooks, at }10:30 a. m., * Thursday, August 20111, conducted fby Jlev. W. B.,Crewdsoo. pastor of the Corning Christian church, assisted iby lt;Rev. E. H. Jackson, pastor of the iMethoiHst ichurcb of Brooks. Interment was boslde her iato husband In the Brooks cemetery.
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Adams County Union Republican
Corning, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 26, 1925
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