Mrs. Elizabeth Beakes, for many years a resident of Bloomingburg, died at her home in that village on Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock, after an illness of sixteen months, following an attack of cerebral hemorrhage.
Mrs. Beakes was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Bull and was born at Circleville, September 3, 1837, being therefore in the eighty-first year of her life. She was one of a family of nine children, of whom she was the last.
Mrs. Beakes was married February 10, 1858, at Circleville, to Dr. George M. Beakes, for many years a physician at Bloomingburg and a former representative in the Assembly for Sullivan county. Dr. Beakes died at Bloomingburg in 1900. She is survived by three children: Samuel Willard, Member of Congress from the Second District of Michigan; Gertrude, wife of Dr. Murray A. Seagears, of St. Augustine, Florida; and Dr. Robert O. Beakes, of Bloomingburg.
She was for years a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bloomingburg, taking an active part in all that pertained to the welfare of the church, and in her life and death she exemplified the teachings of the Master. Her death removes one of the oldest residents of Bloomingburg, and she will be sincerely missed by her large circle of relatives and friends.
The funeral will be held at her late residence on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the Bloomingburg cemetery.
--Orange County Times-Press (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, February 26, 1918, page 5
Mrs. Beakes was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Bull and was born at Circleville, September 3, 1837, being therefore in the eighty-first year of her life. She was one of a family of nine children, of whom she was the last.
Mrs. Beakes was married February 10, 1858, at Circleville, to Dr. George M. Beakes, for many years a physician at Bloomingburg and a former representative in the Assembly for Sullivan county. Dr. Beakes died at Bloomingburg in 1900. She is survived by three children: Samuel Willard, Member of Congress from the Second District of Michigan; Gertrude, wife of Dr. Murray A. Seagears, of St. Augustine, Florida; and Dr. Robert O. Beakes, of Bloomingburg.
She was for years a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bloomingburg, taking an active part in all that pertained to the welfare of the church, and in her life and death she exemplified the teachings of the Master. Her death removes one of the oldest residents of Bloomingburg, and she will be sincerely missed by her large circle of relatives and friends.
The funeral will be held at her late residence on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the Bloomingburg cemetery.
--Orange County Times-Press (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, February 26, 1918, page 5
Mrs. Elizabeth Beakes, for many years a resident of Bloomingburg, died at her home in that village on Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock, after an illness of sixteen months, following an attack of cerebral hemorrhage.
Mrs. Beakes was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Bull and was born at Circleville, September 3, 1837, being therefore in the eighty-first year of her life. She was one of a family of nine children, of whom she was the last.
Mrs. Beakes was married February 10, 1858, at Circleville, to Dr. George M. Beakes, for many years a physician at Bloomingburg and a former representative in the Assembly for Sullivan county. Dr. Beakes died at Bloomingburg in 1900. She is survived by three children: Samuel Willard, Member of Congress from the Second District of Michigan; Gertrude, wife of Dr. Murray A. Seagears, of St. Augustine, Florida; and Dr. Robert O. Beakes, of Bloomingburg.
She was for years a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bloomingburg, taking an active part in all that pertained to the welfare of the church, and in her life and death she exemplified the teachings of the Master. Her death removes one of the oldest residents of Bloomingburg, and she will be sincerely missed by her large circle of relatives and friends.
The funeral will be held at her late residence on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the Bloomingburg cemetery.
--Orange County Times-Press (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, February 26, 1918, page 5
Mrs. Beakes was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Bull and was born at Circleville, September 3, 1837, being therefore in the eighty-first year of her life. She was one of a family of nine children, of whom she was the last.
Mrs. Beakes was married February 10, 1858, at Circleville, to Dr. George M. Beakes, for many years a physician at Bloomingburg and a former representative in the Assembly for Sullivan county. Dr. Beakes died at Bloomingburg in 1900. She is survived by three children: Samuel Willard, Member of Congress from the Second District of Michigan; Gertrude, wife of Dr. Murray A. Seagears, of St. Augustine, Florida; and Dr. Robert O. Beakes, of Bloomingburg.
She was for years a member of the Dutch Reformed Church of Bloomingburg, taking an active part in all that pertained to the welfare of the church, and in her life and death she exemplified the teachings of the Master. Her death removes one of the oldest residents of Bloomingburg, and she will be sincerely missed by her large circle of relatives and friends.
The funeral will be held at her late residence on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Interment in the family plot in the Bloomingburg cemetery.
--Orange County Times-Press (Middletown, NY), Tuesday, February 26, 1918, page 5
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