Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1907 — Death of Mrs, Mary A. Thomas. [ARTICLE]

Death of Mrs, Mary A. Thomas.

Mrs. Mary A. Thomas, whose home has been mostly in Rensselaer for the past ten years, and most of whose life haS been spent in this and Newton county, died about nine o’clo k Monday night, at the home of her brother Bert Dowell, on Work street. She bad been gradually failing in health for several years from valvular" dis ease of the heart, with resulting dropsical complications. Some two months or. more ago she went to Moosejaw, in Western Canada, and remained with a son there until about two weeks ago, when she came back here and has since failed very rapidly. Her death has been considered inevitable for a week or'more, tho it came somewhat suddenly when it did come. Her age was 50 years the 17th of last August.

She was the daughter of Eli Dowell, now of near Wolcott, and the wife of Morris Thomas from whom she was separated and , divorced. He now lives at Foresman. They lived for many years some seven or eight miles west of town, part of the time in Jasper county and part of the time in Newton. She leaves three sons and two daughters. The sons are Charles, of Moosejaw Canada, Jake, Of Brook, and Ben, who lives with a sister at Peru, Ind. The daughters are Mrs. Mary Holdren, of Pern, and Miss Minnie Thomas, now with her brother Charley, at Moosejaw. The funeral was held Wed nesday, at the residence, at ten A. M., by Rev. H. L. Kindi g.