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    <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Sources for Information;&nbsp; Rush Co., Indiana and Henry Co., Iowa census,court house records,&nbsp; cemetery records, and obituaries.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">***************************</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">THE FREE PRESS</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Mt. Pleasant, Iowa</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Thursday, July 28, 1881</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Wayne Items</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">John C. Davis, an old citizen of this township, died on last Thursday morning after a long spell of sickness</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">***************************</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">MT. PLEASANT REPUBLICAN</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Mt. Pleasant, Henry Co., Iowa</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Thursday, Jan. 2, 1902</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">SAD ACCIDENTAT OLDS</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Mrs. Davis, a widow woman 70 years of age, was run over by the cars Monday morning at Olds and so badly injured that she died in a few hours.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Mrs. Davis was crossing the Iowa Central tracks close behind a freight car that was standing on a switch.&nbsp; The morning freight was switching at the time and just as she was between the rails a string of cars violently struck the box car, pushing it against and over the old lady.&nbsp; Her screams brought instant help, and she was taken from under the car, but it was found that she had been thrown down in such a manner as to cause both arms and legs to be practically severed at the body.&nbsp; Physicians were called at once but were powerless to save her.&nbsp; She died shorly after the accident.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">******************************</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">MT. PLEASANT WEEKLY NEWS</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Wednesday, Jan. 8, 19f02</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Olds Letter</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Regular Correspondence of the News</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Old, Jan. 6, 1902</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">A week ago this morning, Mrs. Davis was as well as any of us, and might have lived several years, if it had not been for that sad accident which caused her death. &nbsp; Elizabeth Alter Davis was born in Ohio, the 27th of March, 1823.&nbsp; Died in Olds, Dec. 30, 1901, from an accident she received by the cars.&nbsp; Her sons, Charles Davis, of Friend, Neb. and John H. Davis of Hays Center, Neb., were here to attend her funeral on last Thursday.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">She joined the M. E. Church when a girl and remained a member until her death.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">Short services were held at the house conducted by Rev. J. C. George of Olds, and the church services were conducted by Rev. Cannon of Wayland and assisted by Rev. George.</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">***********************</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; min-height: 13px; margin: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'lucida grande'; margin: 0px">At the time of her death, Mrs. Davis was living with her daughter, Indi Ann Adams at Olds, Iowa.</p><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 11px"><br></span></font></div>

 
 
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