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Individual Record for: Isabella Hotchkiss Ferguson (female)

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!Source: IGI. Funeral program, Carey Funeral Home, and obituary provided
by Jean Marie Heaton.

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!Note: Grandfather James A. Hotchkiss' notes showed two different
marriage dates (15 Sep 1892, and 10 Sep 1893) and two different death
dates (2 Jul 1952, and 26 Jun 1952).

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!Obituary: (The Enterprise-Chronicle, Burlingame, Kansas, 3 Jul 1052) --
Funeral Rites Held Here Last Sunday for Mrs. David Easton --

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!P: Funeral services for Mrs. David Easton, 78, were held Sunday
afternoon, June 29, 1952, at 2:00 o'clock at the Carey Funeral Home, Rev.
S. N. McCain of the Burlingame Federated Church officiating. Selected
hymns, "Going Down the Valley" and "In the Garden", were sung by Mrs.
Kenneth Bolton and Mrs. Van Snoddy, accompanied by Mrs. W. G. Beale at
organ. Burial was in the Burlingame cemetery.

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!P: Isabella Ferguson, daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth Taylor
Ferguson, was born July 2nd, 1874, at Skinflats, Bothkennar, Scotland,
where she grew to young womanhood. She became a member of the
Presbyrtian church and was married in Scotland to the late David Easton.

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!P: To this union eleven children were born. A son Cornelius and a
daughter Agnes passing away in infancy. Surviving are four sons, George
of Jerome, Idaho; David, Thomas and Alexander of Burlingame; five
daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Leslie of Kansas City; Miss Janet Easton of
home, Mrs. Isabella Cole, Burlingame; Mrs. Christina Heaton of Pheonix,
Arizona and Mrs. Jeanie Maple, Burlingame. Also sixteen grandchildren
and four great grandchildren; one brother Peter Ferguson of
Sterlingshire, Scotland, and a number of nieces and nephews.

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!P: Since comming to America in 1911 she has made her home in
Burlingame and following the death of her husband in June 1918 she
bravely took over the task of raising her children. Although she had hard
times no complaint ever passed her lips and she lived to complete her
role of motherhood in seeing her children grow to manhood and
womanhood.

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!P: Plagued by ill health for the past 15 years, the last twelve of which
she had been totally bedfast, she was lovingly cared for in her home by
her daughter Janet and son Thomas. Although suffering much pain she
remained cheerful and uncomplaining. Two days before death came she
entered into a comma and passed peacefully away on Thursday afternoon,
June 26, 1952.

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!P: Those from out of town here for the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R.
Leslie of Kansas City and Mrs. Christina Heaton, Pheonix, Arizona. From
Topeka, Mrs. Anne Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. William Chalmers, Mrs. Lula
Cole, Mrs. Lucille Raub, Mrs. Irene Mundy and Miss Almeda Easton; Mrs.
Walter Hastings of Scranton; Mr. and MRs. Thomas Jones and Neal S.
Hotchkiss of Wichita; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Merrel and Mrs. Norman Brady of
Emporia. --

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