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From: "Penny" <>
Subject: RE: [NYDELAWA-L] Obituary - Mrs. Clarissa Beardslee
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:08:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: <NBBBJFPMIKOFICCINNNBMEMKHNAA.macroqueen@adelphia.net>



I would like to thank the person who posts these clippings
(below) for capitalizing the surnames! Just that simple act makes
these SOooooo much easier to scan through! :)
Penny

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Subject: [NYDELAWA-L] Obituary - Mrs. Clarissa Beardslee


Another Clipping from the Scrap Book of Lena Belle (Beers) Alverson
Walton Reporter, (1928 hand-written)

Obituary - MRS. CLARISSA BEARDSLEE
MRS. CLARISSA LUCINDA BEARDSLEE died at home of her
> > daughter, MRS.
> > CLYDE SMITH, near Loomis Tuesday April 24, aged 74 years and
> > eight months.
> > MRS. BEARDSLEE had not been in good health for several years but
> > was confined
> > to her bed for only one week. The immediate cause of her death was
> > bronchitis and heart failure.
> > She was born at Beerston July 30, 1853, daughter of BURTON
> > and CAROLINE
> > MOREHOUSE BEERS. In 1875 she married JOHN LEWIS BEARDSLEE, who
> > died about
> > fifteen years ago. Her whole life was spent at Beerston except
> for a few
> > years in Walton while her daughter, EVA, was attending high
> > school and the
> > last six years, spent with the same daughter, now MRS. CLYDE
> SMITH, near
> > Loomis. She leaves seven children, MRS. WILLIAM GOODRICH of Beerston,
> > CHARLES L. GOODRICH of Pines, MRS. F. T. HAWES of Walton, MRS. E.
> > J. LOVE and
> > MRS. E. L. GIFFORD of Pines, CARL W. BEARDSLEE of Walton and MRS.
> > C. E. SMITH
> > of Loomis, also twenty-nine grandchildren and five great
> > grandchildren. The
> > eldest son, BURTON M., died at Honolulu, H. I., Nov. 26, 1898
> > while serving
> > with Co. F of Walton in the Spanish-American war.
> > MRS. BEARDSLEE was a member of the Presbyterian church at
> > Beerston. An
> > earnest Christian, a loyal friend and a most devoted mother, her
> > influence
> > will long be felt and her memory cherished by those who knew her best.
> > The funeral service will be held in the Walton Baptist
> church Friday
> > afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial in the Walton cemetery.
> >
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