Mrs. L. O. Stevens died at the Blair Hospital at about 11 o’clock Sunday night, having been sick for three days. She had been at the hospital for a year or more owing to her advanced age and weakened mental condition, but since here daughter, Mrs. J. B. Adams, with whom she had made her home in recent years had moved to Omaha, she had fitted up a room and employed a nurse preparatory to taking her down there. Death came suddenly to spoil these plans and instead the frail old body was taken to the old home in Earlville, Ia., and laid beside that of her husband, whose death occurred in this city about six years ago. The funeral was held at the Congregational church at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, Rev. A. Maurice Abbott officiating. Miss Jeanettre Lease was born in Johnston, Vt. March 14th, 1832, and was therefore past 76 years of age at the time of her death She was married to Levi O. Stevens at Rock Island, Ill. Sept. 15th, 1863, and lived for a time at Dubuque, Ia. Later they moved on a farm near Earlville, Ia., which was their home for over forty years. They then moved to Grinnell and some six years ago, on account of failing health, they came to Blair to make their home with their daughter, Mrs. J. B. Adams. Of this union eight children were born, one son dying in infancy and the oldest daughter in 1885. Four sons, J. L. Stevens of Stockton, Kans.; Chas. O. of Washington, D.C.; T. F. of Creston, Neb.; and Phillip H. of Manilla, P.I.; and two daughters, Mrs. E. B. Kenyon of Los Angeles and Mrs. J. B. Adams, now of Omaha, survive her. Only J.L. and T.F. Stevens and Mr. and Mrs. Adams were present for the funeral.

#2-4 Nov., 1909 - Blair Democrat - Janette Lease Stevens

DIES AT HOSPITAL

Mrs. Janette Lease Stevens, mother of Mrs. J. B. Adams, died at the hospital in Blair last Sunday evening at the advanced age of 77 years. Mrs. Stevens had been failing for a number of years and sometime ago was placed in the hospital where she could be given proper attention and receive the care that her condition needed.

Mrs. Stevens, who was a widow of Levi O. Stevens, came to Blair with her husband from Earlville, Iowa in May of 1902 for the purpose of making her home with the family of her daughter. A little over a year later her husband died at the age of 84 years, and Mrs. Stevens continued to make her home with her daughter until taken to the hospital a few years back.

The remains were taken to Earlville, Iowa, near which place the family resided for nearly forty years, and will be interred beside those of her husband in the family lot.

Deceased was born in Johnson, Vermont March 14th, 1832, and was married to Levi O. Stevens at Rock Island, Ill. September 15th, 1853. There are six children who survive her, four sons and two daughters. One daughter lives in Los Angeles and the other in Omaha, while the sons are living in Stockton, Kansas, Washington, D.C., Creston, Neb., and the younger son at Manila, P.I.

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

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