Mrs. Matthew R. Henson died suddenly of last Sunday at the home of Mrs. Ed Pilcher where she had been working.

Henrietta Plyes was born in Scioto County, Ohio, August 4, 1850 and was married to Mr. Henson in 1866.

They moved to Nebraska in 1888 and have since made their home in Blair with the exception of two years spent in Bloomfield and two in Crofton.

The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock and interment was made in the Blair Cemetery.

*The Vig Files at the Danish American Archives records her burial in the Tekamah Cemetery; her children, William, James, Frank and Gretchen, and 3 dying before their mother.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file at the Blair Public Library.~~~