Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1918 — OBITUARY OF MARY MATHENA [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY OF MARY MATHENA

Mary E. Dalton was born June 22, 1840, and departed this life February 10, 1918, aged seventyseven years, eight months and eighteen days. She was united in marriage to Thomas Mathena February 12, 1863. To tkis union was born two daughters, Mrs. Lewis Muster of this city and Lizzie, who died when nine year old, and five sons, Ellis, Elmer and Earl of this city, James of Cherokee, lowa, and William, who died at Che age of one year. She held to the faibh of the Quaker church, of which faith her father and mother gave her the quiet and spiritual truths of that grand old denomination. She had been a sufferer for many months but bore her afflictions with patience. She was a good mother 'and she will be greatly missed by those who loved her. Besides her brothers and sisters she leaves two grandchildren, Mrs. Leota Daniels and Emmett Muster, and many friends to mourn her loss. So ends the life chapter of another who had lived with us in this life. xx