Published in The Evening Sentinel
Monday, October 19, 1903
Mrs. Emma [COLE] BEARSS died at the old Bearss homestead, in Peru, Friday afternoon aged eighty seven years.
Of her life the Peru Journal says, the death of Mrs. Bearss removes one of the very prominent and earliest settlers in this community. She was a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Albert COLE and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 26, 1816. In 1834 while she was living at Goshen she was united in marriage to Daniel R. BEARSS, then a merchant in that city and they came here the same year. To Mr. & Mrs. Bearss were born eight children, namely: George R. BEARSS, of Fulton county; William E. BEARSS, deceased; Postmaster A. C. BEARSS, Oliver BEARSS, Omer D. BEARSS, Hon. Frank W. BEARSS, Emma [BEARSS KUMLER], the first wife of Mr. C. J. S. KUMLER and Ella [BEARSS] deceased.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Presbyterian church of which deceased had long been a faithful member.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1901-1904
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Monday, October 19, 1903
Mrs. Emma [COLE] BEARSS died at the old Bearss homestead, in Peru, Friday afternoon aged eighty seven years.
Of her life the Peru Journal says, the death of Mrs. Bearss removes one of the very prominent and earliest settlers in this community. She was a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Albert COLE and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 26, 1816. In 1834 while she was living at Goshen she was united in marriage to Daniel R. BEARSS, then a merchant in that city and they came here the same year. To Mr. & Mrs. Bearss were born eight children, namely: George R. BEARSS, of Fulton county; William E. BEARSS, deceased; Postmaster A. C. BEARSS, Oliver BEARSS, Omer D. BEARSS, Hon. Frank W. BEARSS, Emma [BEARSS KUMLER], the first wife of Mr. C. J. S. KUMLER and Ella [BEARSS] deceased.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Presbyterian church of which deceased had long been a faithful member.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1901-1904
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Evening Sentinel
Monday, October 19, 1903
Mrs. Emma [COLE] BEARSS died at the old Bearss homestead, in Peru, Friday afternoon aged eighty seven years.
Of her life the Peru Journal says, the death of Mrs. Bearss removes one of the very prominent and earliest settlers in this community. She was a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Albert COLE and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 26, 1816. In 1834 while she was living at Goshen she was united in marriage to Daniel R. BEARSS, then a merchant in that city and they came here the same year. To Mr. & Mrs. Bearss were born eight children, namely: George R. BEARSS, of Fulton county; William E. BEARSS, deceased; Postmaster A. C. BEARSS, Oliver BEARSS, Omer D. BEARSS, Hon. Frank W. BEARSS, Emma [BEARSS KUMLER], the first wife of Mr. C. J. S. KUMLER and Ella [BEARSS] deceased.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Presbyterian church of which deceased had long been a faithful member.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1901-1904
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
Monday, October 19, 1903
Mrs. Emma [COLE] BEARSS died at the old Bearss homestead, in Peru, Friday afternoon aged eighty seven years.
Of her life the Peru Journal says, the death of Mrs. Bearss removes one of the very prominent and earliest settlers in this community. She was a daughter of Judge and Mrs. Albert COLE and was born in Zanesville, Ohio, July 26, 1816. In 1834 while she was living at Goshen she was united in marriage to Daniel R. BEARSS, then a merchant in that city and they came here the same year. To Mr. & Mrs. Bearss were born eight children, namely: George R. BEARSS, of Fulton county; William E. BEARSS, deceased; Postmaster A. C. BEARSS, Oliver BEARSS, Omer D. BEARSS, Hon. Frank W. BEARSS, Emma [BEARSS KUMLER], the first wife of Mr. C. J. S. KUMLER and Ella [BEARSS] deceased.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Presbyterian church of which deceased had long been a faithful member.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obits/Biogs - 1901-1904
by Wendell C. Tombaugh
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