From a Scrapbook in the library of the Genealogical Society of Linn County, Iowa, 813 First Avenue S. E., P.O. Box 175, Cedar Rapids, IA 52406-0175:
MRS. WHEELER ERION
“MRS. S. WHEELER ERION PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER GRANDSON, PURL PEARSON, AT MECHANICSVILLE FEB. 7, 1944.
HER MAIDEN NAME WAS MARY MAGDALENE JOHNSON, THE SECOND OF NINE CHILDREN OF JACOB AND NANNIE JOHNSON. SHE WAS BORN NEAR DUNDEE, TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, OHIO, MAY 2, 1858. ALL MEMBERS OF THE JOHNSON FAMILY HAVE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.
HER GIRLHOOD WAS FULL OF GRIEF AND HARDSHIP BECAUSE OF SICKNESS AND DEATH IN THE FAMILY.
SHE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH NEAR HER HOME IN EARLY LIFE.
SHE WAS MARRIED AT NEW PHILADELPHIA, OHIO, MARCH 13, 1879, TO S. W. ERION, AND SAME [SHOULD BE CAME] SOON AFTER WITH HIM TO HIS HOME IN LINN GROVE, WHERE SHE DID HER FULL SHARE IN MAKING A REAL HOME AND SHE ALSO WORKED FOR THE INTEREST OF THE LINN GROVE CHURCH OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER FOR MANY YEARS.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO MR. AND MRS. ERION MOVED FROM THE FARM IN LINN GROVE TO SPRINGVILLE, WHERE THEY MADE THEIR HOME UNTIL LAST AUGUST WHEN THEY WENT TO LIVE WITH THEIR GRANDSON, PURL PEARSON, AND FAMILY AT MECHANICSVILLE.
BESIDES HER HUSBAND, WITH WHOM SHE SHARED THE JOYS AND SORROWS OF LIFE FOR ALMOST 65 YEARS, SHE LEAVES A DAUGHTER, MRS. S. G. PEARSON (Elsie M. Erion) OF WHITTIER, FIVE GRANDSONS AND SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE HUNTE FUNERAL HOME TUESDAY AFTERNOON BY THE REV. CHARLES B. WILLMING OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND INTERMENT WAS MADE AT MOUNT ZION CEMETERY.”
then this brief notice:
MRS. WHEELER ERION
“MRS. WHEELER ERION PASSED AWAY MONDAY NOON AT HOME OF HER NEPHEW (SHOULD BE GRANDSON) PURL PEARSON, AT MECHANICSVILLE. THE FUNERAL WAS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK AT THE HUNTE FUNERAL HOME. BURIAL WAS AT MT. ZION CEMETERY.”
(This information was also posted by me at www.findagrave.com.)
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