MARY ELLEN MCDONALD WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 30, 1838 IN OWEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. WHEN ABOUT 12 YEARS OF AGE REMOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO WASHINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA WHERE THEY RESIDED FOR A FEW YEARS, AFTERWARDS RETURNING TO KENTUCKY.
ON MAY 18, 1869 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAMUEL P. ALEXANDER. TO THEM WERE BORN EIGHT CHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM ARE LIVING EXCEPT ONE. MRS. CHARLES BANDENDISTEL LIVES AT FRUITA, COLORADO, AND MRS JAMES SOUTHER AT ST ORM LAKE, IOWA. THE OTHER CHILDREN RESIDE NEAR HERE.
IN 1865 MRS. ALEXANDER CAME TO ILLINOIS WITH HER FAMILY AND HAS SINCE RESIDED IN AND NEAR LOVINGTON AND HAD LIVED AT HER LATE HOME MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS. DECEASED WS A MOST ESTIMABLE LADY AND WAS WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. HER DEATH IS REGRETTED BY ALL.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 4 OCLOCK MONDAY AFTERNOON, CONDUCTED BY REV. OVERBAUGH. THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED BY RELATIVES AND SYMPATHIZING FRIENDS. THE BODY WAS BORNE TO THE LOVINGTON CEMETERY FOR INTERMENT, FOLLOWED BY A LARGE ONCOURSE OF PEOPLE.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
MARY ELLEN MCDONALD WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 30, 1838 IN OWEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. WHEN ABOUT 12 YEARS OF AGE REMOVED WITH HER PARENTS TO WASHINGTON COUNTY, INDIANA WHERE THEY RESIDED FOR A FEW YEARS, AFTERWARDS RETURNING TO KENTUCKY.
ON MAY 18, 1869 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO SAMUEL P. ALEXANDER. TO THEM WERE BORN EIGHT CHILDREN, ALL OF WHOM ARE LIVING EXCEPT ONE. MRS. CHARLES BANDENDISTEL LIVES AT FRUITA, COLORADO, AND MRS JAMES SOUTHER AT ST ORM LAKE, IOWA. THE OTHER CHILDREN RESIDE NEAR HERE.
IN 1865 MRS. ALEXANDER CAME TO ILLINOIS WITH HER FAMILY AND HAS SINCE RESIDED IN AND NEAR LOVINGTON AND HAD LIVED AT HER LATE HOME MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS. DECEASED WS A MOST ESTIMABLE LADY AND WAS WELL KNOWN AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY. HER DEATH IS REGRETTED BY ALL.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 4 OCLOCK MONDAY AFTERNOON, CONDUCTED BY REV. OVERBAUGH. THE SERVICES WERE LARGELY ATTENDED BY RELATIVES AND SYMPATHIZING FRIENDS. THE BODY WAS BORNE TO THE LOVINGTON CEMETERY FOR INTERMENT, FOLLOWED BY A LARGE ONCOURSE OF PEOPLE.
OBITUARY BY JANET DONNER
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