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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Chowning
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:55:49 -0400


Undated article from unknown source. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.



Mrs. Chowning of Madison Dies; Funeral Thursday



"Madison- Mrs. Elizabeth Chowning, widow of Orville Chowning, died at
6:30 o'clock this morning at her home in Madison. She had been ill some
time.

Born May 9, 1872, near Holliday, she was a daughter of the late Adam and
Elizabeth Holliday Gwynn, pioneer residents of Monroe County. Mrs.
Chowning was the last survivor of a family of eight children including
the late S. Sam Gwynn, Paris, Mrs. Edwin Basset, former of Madison, and
Mrs. Minnie Delaney, Slater, all well-known in Madison. Orville
Chowning was a businessman in Madison. Mrs. Chowning was a member of
the Presbyterian Church in Madison until it was dissolved. After that,
she joined the Madison Christian Church.

Surviving are: one daughter, Miss Mary Chowning, formerly a high school
teach in Illinois who returned to Madison three years ago to care for
her mother; two sons, James R., Wilmington, Del., and Joseph A. Fort
Worth, Tex.; six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

The body was taken from the Thompson and Mackler Funeral Home in Madison
this afternoon to the family home. There will be no visitation at the
family home until late tomorrow afternoon. Funeral services will be
held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the Madison Christian Church.
The Rev. W.C. Cornn, Christian minister, will officiate. Burial will be
in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Madison."



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