Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1919 — OBITUARY OF MRS. WILLIAM POTTS. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY OF MRS. WILLIAM POTTS.

Mary Ann Potts, daughter of George and Rebecca. Nichols, was born in Jasper county, Indiana, Dec. 20, 1844, and died Dec. 23, 1919, at the age of 75 years and 3 days. Mrs. , Potts spent her entire life in Barkley township, with the exception of the last two years, which were spent near Virgie in Union township.- * She was well known over Jasper county as one of its most successful school teachers, havihg taught for twenty-one terms in the township where she spent her life. She was united in marriage to William Potts in 1875 and to this union were born three children, Mrs. Isaac Wells, sons Ancil and George Franklin, the latter having died at the age of two years. Mrs. Potts was the next to the youngest of a family of twelve children, ten of whom have gone before her, namely, Solomon, Harry, Samuel Jackson, Alonzo, Benjamin, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, Mrs. Jane Nichols, Mrs. Cynthia German and Olive. She leaves only one brother, John Nichols, of Rensselaer. Mrs. Pott? lived a most honorable and upright life and was a very kind and loving wife and mother. She made a host of friends wherever she was and was one of the most merciful women. >- Sympathy and kiftdness were two great characteristics of her life. Mrs. Potts died of paralysis, having received her first stroke early Saturday morning, December 20, 1919, and she suffered intensely until death, which relieved here at 11 o’clock a. m., December 23, 1919. She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, two children, Mrs. Isaac Wells and Ancil Potts, both of whom are living at Virgie; nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, one brothers of Rensselaer, and a host of friends.