WIDOW OF NEBRASKA TERRITORIAL PIONEER DIES IN OMAHA HOME

Mrs. Mary E. Parker, 89, a Nebraska territorial pioneer, died Friday in her home, 6404 Maple Street, Omaha.

The dead woman was born in 1831 at Columbus, Ohio and was married in 1850 to James Monroe Parker. The couple came to Nebraska in 1863 by the prairie schooner route and located at Twenty-fourth and Dodge streets. Before leaving for Washington county in 1870 to take up a homestead, Mr. Parker sold the property for $1,800.

The family lived in Washington county for many years and in Kennard until Mr. Parker’s death in 1909 when Mrs. Parker removed to Benson.

She was the mother of eight children of whom there survive two sons, Frank and Kirby Parker, of Benson, and three daughters, Mrs. Kate P. Fodrea, Cambridge Neb., Mrs. Jennie E. Graham, Chicago, and Mrs. Alice A. Shaffer, Pine Bluff, Ark. There are eight grandchildren, including Irene Parker, Mrs. Phoebe Kate Nelsen and Penn P. Fodrea, of Omaha. There are also six great-grandchildren, including Misses Nellie, Francis and Fordrea of Omaha.

Funeral services were held in the family residence at 1 p.m. Sunday, the seventeenth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Parker’s wedding.

Interment was made in the family lot in Blair, Neb. cemetery on Monday.

The pallbearers, who are sons and grandsons were Frank Parker, Kirby Parker, James Allan, Penn P. Fodrea, George Nelsen and Rob Jeffry.

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used.