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  • Story: Obit. For Mary E. Totten

    <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Mary E. Totten<span> </span></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">&nbsp;</font> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Mary E. Totten, nee Youman, was born at Oneida, New York, May 1, 1853, and departed this life at her home three miles northeast of Cozad, March 7, 1924. In her earthly pilgrimage she attained the ripe age of 70 years, 10 months and 6 days.</font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>She moved with her parents from New York to Ohio when a child, and shortly afterwards they located in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Here she grew to womanhood and shortly after the close of the Civil War, on August 31, 1870, was united in marriage with Edwin Totten. Immediately following their wedlock they homesteaded in Marshall County, Kansas, and lived there fourteen years. With her family, mother Totten moved to Dawson County, Nebraska, in 1884, and located on a pre-emption in Roten Valley. After a residence of seventeen years on this farm she went to Omaha for a short period, and she then homesteaded in South Dakota. Four years later she returned to Dawson County and resided here until the time of her departure arrived.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Five sons were born to the union with Edwin Totten and all survive her. They are Clarence C., Cozad, Nebraska; Herbert H., Pocatello, Idaho; Harry M., Oakland, Calif.; Ernest A., Santa Cruz, Calif.; and Roy B., Chicago, Ill. These sons, with the exception of Ernest, were present at the funeral. Two brothers also survive her, Orson Youman of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Clement, of Cozad, Nebraska. Her only sister, Mrs. Della Harrison of Chicago, preceded her to the land that knows no separations about four months ago.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mother Totten has been in ill health for a number of years, and critically sick for the past seven weeks after an attack of apoplexy.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>She united with the Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal church about a quarter of a century ago, and was a faithful and consistent member of the same at the time of her home-going. Mrs. Totten was one of the pioneer settlers of Dawson County, and her death marks the passing of another land-mark in the development of the community. She endured with patience the hardships and sacrifices of an early settler. She was always ready to render assistance in the time of sickness or calamity, and many people rise up to call her memory blessed, and particularly her sons, to whom she was all that could ever be expected in a mother.</font></font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Funeral services were conducted from the Walnut Grove church, Sunday afternoon at two-thirty o&rsquo;clock, with Rev. B. A. Shively of Cozad, officiating. The funeral cortege was in charge of Ed Woodworth, Cozad&rsquo;s efficient undertaker. Interment was made in the Walnut Grove cemetery, awaiting that day for which all other days were made, when the trumpet shall awaken those who sleep in Him.</font></font></p>

 
 
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