Mrs. M. R. Henson died very suddenly at the Ed Pilcher home north of town at about 7 o’clock Sunday evening. She had been keeping house for Ed’s corn huskers but had been sick for a couple of days. Her daughter, Mrs. Frank Chevalier, of Sioux City, had been with her almost a week and her son, Frank, came down from Fremont Sunday to see her before she returned to Sioux City with Mrs. Chevalier. She had been up and down during the day and had packed her own suitcase. She was sitting on the bed and fell over. They thought she had fainted and called for the doctor, but she had died of heart failure.

#2-Published in the Blair Democrat November 8, 1917

Mrs. Ella Henson succumbed to heart trouble at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Pilcher on Sunday, Nov. 4, 1917. She had been a resident of Blair since 1889. Etta Pyles was born in Sciota County Ohio, n 1850. In 1866 she was married to M. R. Henson. She leaves to mourn her demise, her husband, three sons, James of Kansas City, William of Tekamah, and Frank of Fremont, and two daughters, Mrs. Hugh Weaver of Stockton, Cal., and Mrs. F. H. Chevelier of Sioux City. The body was taken to Tekamah Tuesday where the funeral was held from the home of her son William, interment being made in the Tekamah Cemetery.

Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.