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From: "cheryl BALOG wenberg" <>
Subject: [INLAKE] CORNELL, Mrs. Merritt Obit 1938
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:51:47 -0600

The Vidette-Messenger Indiana August 29, 1938

Mrs. Merritt CORNELL, 87, Succumbs To Thrombosis

Death claimed a Porter county pioneer Sunday noon when Mrs. Merritt CORNELL, aged 87, died
at her home in Boone Grove of thrombosis.

A resident of this county all her life Mrs. CORNELL was born Feb. 6, 1851, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. HOUSE and was married Dec. 25, 1873, at Boone Grove. She was a member
of the Boone Grove Christian church.

Survivors:

Daughters: Mrs. Marion DEYOUNG of Chicago

Mrs. Pearl C. MACFARLANE of Chicago

Daughter-in-law: Mrs. Bess CORNELL, who resided with her.

Her husband preceded her in death in 1911.

A son Lorin died in 1924

Grandchildren: Herbert C. DEYOUNG of Chicago

Mrs. Herbert V. KOHLER of Kohler, Wis.

Services Wednesday at the Boone Grove Christian church, with Rev. M. G. Long, former
Boone Grove pastor and now of Thorton, Ind. officiating.

Burial in the Graceland cemetery, Valparaiso

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