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THE WESTERN STAR, 27 January 1911 |
Obituary of LUCINA JANE WELLS |
Death Of Lucina Jane Wells. Lucina J. Holmes was born in Tioga-co., New York, in the year 1840. In 1857 she was married to Alfred M. Wells at Candor, New York. Their family consists of Willia Holmes, who died in infancy: Susie Louise, who married J. W. Wood and lives in New York; Fred Ernest, who married Jessie Woodburn in Barton-co., Kans., and Frances Adelaide, who married D. S. Van Gundy at Kinsley, Kans. Mr. Van Gundy was then pastor of the Kinsley Methodist church. Mrs. Wells came with her husband to Kansas in the year 1890 and they lived for a time in Barton-co., then for years near Kinsley, where Mr. Wells, her husband, died nearly six years ago. After Mr. wells death Mrs. wells removed with her son, Fred to
Comanche-co., where they came to avail themselves of the opportunity for
getting land. Mrs. wells had her home in Wilmore, a few miles from her
country place, which is near her son, Fred's place. On January 19, 1911,
she died in own home, where her people and kind neighbors came to minister
to her during the few days she lived after being taken sick with
pneumonia. Everything was done that loving hands could do to smooth her
pathway to the grave and to love ones gone before. But she had passed the
"three score years and ten" of scripture and did not have sufficient
vitality to recover. Only a short time before her death her faithful
physician said: "Oh we cannot spare her; everybody loved her, and when any
one was sick she was right there." In various ways she expressed her
willingness to go, and said: "Everything is all right." Once she looked up
to her husband's picture and said to her son, Fred: |
Transcribed and Contributed by Shirley Brier |
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