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IDA
Services Held for
Miss Ida O’Neil
at
McLemoresville
Services for Miss Ida O’Neill
of McLemoresville, were held at
the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church at McLemoresville Tuesday afternoon. The Rev. John
E. Pugh officiated. Burial was
in the church cemetery, with
Holmes & Walker Funeral
Home of Trezevant in charge.
Miss O’Neill
died at her home
Monday night as a result of
pneumonia. She had suffered a
stroke nine months ago. She
was the daughter of the late
Will O’Neill
and Lilly Woolen
O’Neill,
members of early families of McLemoresville. She was
educated in the old McLemoresville Collegiate Institute.
She leaves two brothers, J. E.
O’Neill
of McLemoresville, and
M. C. O’Neill
of Trezevant.
OWNBY, ETTA
A Terrible Accident.
Miss Etta Ownby Receives
Fatal Burns.
A Most Estimable Young Lady and
Her Death is a Sad Bereavement
To the Family.
The community of the Twenty third district was terribly shocked
Tuesday afternoon upon learning of
the sad intelligence that had befallen
Miss Etta Ownby, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. P. Ownby.
The young lady was standing in
front of the fire place when her dress
became ignited. She walked into an
adjoining room where her mother
was at work before she discovered it
and her mother called her attention
to the fact that her dress was burning. The unfortunate girl became so
excited that she lost complete control
of herself and ran out into the yard
and paid no attention to her mother’s
entreaty to stop running that she
might assist in extinguishing the fire.
The flames continued to do their terrible work until her clothing was
entirely consumed and her body so
badly burned that she lived only a
few hours.
Miss Ownby was a most excellent
young lady, highly accomplished and
very much admired by a large circle
of friends. She was about 30 years
old, a member of the C. P. church
and an earnest Christian worker. Her
unfortunate death is greatly deplored
by the entire community and the bereaved family has the sympathy of
all. The remains were buried at
Barren Springs yesterday.
Miss Ownby at one time attended
school here and had many friends in
Huntingdon who grieve with the
family in their great sorrow.
OWNBY, SUSAN
(Torn) Of Respect.
(Torn) in his all-wise
providence has taken from our
midst a beloved member. Mrs.
Susan Ownby, and transplanted
her into His heavenly kingdom, be
it resolved:
1. That we, the members of the
Ladies Missionary Society of the
Presbyterian church of
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miss her, although kept
from active service in the society
by ill health, yet in her quiet patient way she did her Master’s
work and was a blessing and a help
to us, and to all with whom she
came in
contact. Her life teaches
us the lesson that we must learn to
wait after we have labored in our
Master’s
vineyard.
2. That sister Owenby, though
dead, yet liveth among us in the
good influence that she shed abroad
while she journeyed with us here.
3. That we extend our heartfelt
sympathy to her loved ones and
pray God’s
blessings upon them.
4. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family, a copy
sent to the county paper and that
they be spread upon the minutes
of our society.
Mrs. Thorne.
Committee Mrs. Johnston
Mrs. Black
By order of society.
OXLEY, ELMER ELLSWORTH
[D. 25 Apr 1938-Penick Funeral Home]
Obituary
E. E. Oxley
Elmer Ellsworth Oxley was
born August 5, 1864 near East
Enterprise, Ind., and died in
McKenzie April 25, 1938. He
spent his early childhood in
Switzerland and Ohio counties,
Ind. Mr. Oxley moved to McKenzie in 1891 and was married to
Miss Laura Belle Vaughn, Aug.
24, 1892. To this union were
born four children: William
Vaughn (deceased), Mrs. W. W.
Scates of Jackson, Mrs. George
Flowers of McKenzie and Otto
E. Oxley of Memphis.
He is survived by his widow,
above named children, one
brother, Otto W. Oxley, of
Fort Wayne, Ind., Mrs. Ollie McHenry of McKenzie and Mrs.
Lucevia Orem of Vevay, Ind.
Mr. Oxley was a quiet, unassuming man. He was a mechanical genius which talent he
inherited from his father. His
friends will remember him as a
millwright and general repairer of machinery. He owned and
operated a sawmill and threshing outfit for a number of years
and continued this kind of
work in New Mexico where he
moved for the health of his eldest son, William, who died in
1921, after serving in the U. S.
Army from 1917 to 1918.
Mr. Oxley’s
health failed about two years ago and he suffered a paralytic stroke last
July. After this he gradually became better but suffered a relapse about the middle of April
growing steadily worse until
he died April 25. The funeral
service was conducted at the
First Methodist Church by the
Rev. E. W. Crump of Lexington,
assisted by the Revs. A. N. Goforth and Geo. L. Johnson of
McKenzie. The active pallbearers were Baxter Loving,
Graff Bobbitt, George Barksdale, J. W. Atkins, John Freeman and Luther Evans. The
honorary pallbearers were Geo.
Woods, Dan Bobbitt, William Bobbitt, Joseph McDonald, William Allen, C. J. Page and John
Granade. Burial was in Mount
Olivet Cemetery.
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