Obituary Record

Mary A. (Johns) Whitesides
Died on 1/7/1925

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Pilot--January 7, 1925

Mrs. Mary A. Whitesides died at her home on east Front street at 7:45 last evening of heart weakness following an attack of influenza about a month ago. A funeral service will be held at the residence at 10 o’clock tomorrow, Thursday morning, and the body taken to St. Louis to be laid by the side of her husband, the late Rev. Marcellus S. Whitesides, whose death occurred some five years ago. Mary A. Johns was born in Franklin county, Mo., May 10, 1848, so was 76 years old last May. She came with her parents to Cuming City in the early days when that was started as a city, and was married there to Rev. Marcellus S. Whitesides. The greater part of their married life was spent in Missouri, at Louisiana and St. Louis. Nine children were born to them, one dying in infancy and one son met his death on the ill-fated Cyclops during the World war. Four sons are now living, Dr. W. W. Whitesides of this city, J. J. Whitesides of Centralia, Mo., Walter G. of St. Louis and Major Roscoe R. of San Francisco. Mrs. Whitesides came to Blair in March of last year when Dr. Whitesides took charge of the practice of Dr. A. J. Sanderson while he and his wife took an auto trip to California.

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

Printed in the Blair Pilot on 1/7/1925


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