Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Obituary of Mrs. Maribe! Kays. [ARTICLE]
Obituary of Mrs. Maribe! Kays.
Maribel Moore, the oldest of a family of six children born to Moses and Sarah Moore, was born in jbewistown, Penn., Dec. 2s, 1838. Died in Rensselaer May 8, 1912, 'aged 73 years, five months and ten days. She’ was married to Jamee A Kays while residing in Pennsylvania. Her husband proceeded her seventeen years ago. Thirteen children were born to this unlion. Six are living: Mrs. James Norris, Mrs. James Fisher, Ed J., and Harry, of Hammond; Florence Kays and Mrs, Thomas Parker, of North Dakota. * She moved to Indiana, settling in Jasper county, in the fall of 1865, and has resided here until the time of her death. She was a member of the Milroy Circle and Trinity M. E. church. She Joined the Lutheran church when a young girl and when she moved to Jasper County, there being no Lutheran church heye, she united with the Methodist church and lived in the. faith until death. Pour years ago she was stricken with paralysis and in September a year later, she f&l and since that time shfe has been confined to her home almost all of .the time. During this time she suffered greatly. She leaves to mourn their loss, six children, one sister, Mrs. Parker Wiley, of Monticello, and one brother, John Moore, of Barkley township, and nineteen grand children and one greatgrandchild, to mourn her departure.
