Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Effie Lee Cowden, born Dec. 26, 1874, and departed this life March 12, 1920, age 45 years, 2 months and 17 days. She was born at Otsego, Ohio, and at the age of four years moved with her parents to the state of Indiana *and located near Rensselaer. , . . , ~ At an early age she joined the Methodist church. She graduated from the Rensselaer high school with the class of 1892 and after which she taught school for two ye in ‘ the year \f 1899 she was united in marriage to George M. Burk, to which union one daughter, Mary Helen, was born. They moved to Cass County in 19(12 and located at Walton and later moving to Logansport, the present home. She was a member of the kcbekah Lodge at Rensselaer, Indiana. She is survived by the husband, daughter, her mother and one sister, her father having preceded her in death.