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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Mealey, Anna Semler DEATH OF MRS ANNA MEALEY
Last Thursday while out in the yard at her home on Fox creek, Mrs B F Mealey tripped and fell, breaking her arm, hand and wrist. While the injury was a most painful one, yet it was thought that it would heal in the course of time and not prove more serious than is usual in such cases.
It was a severe shock, indeed, to the many friends and neighbors of Mrs Mealey, when they learned, Monday, that she was dead., The wound caused by the broken bone inflamation following, had quickly caused a malignant case of blood poisoning. By Saturday, her condition had become so alarming that it was thought best to take her to a hospital. She was taken to the Axtell Hospital at Newton, and although the best medical skill and the greastest care that could be secured was given, yet all proved of no avail, and death came early Monday morning, only four days after she had sustained her injury.
The body was brought from Newton Tuesday morning to Strong City where the funeral was held the same afternoon. Rev. Rorick of the Strong City Methodist church preached the sermon after which burial was made in the Strong City cemetery. The funeral was widely attended, while the many floral offerings showed the love and regard in which she was held by those who had lived so long as her neighbors and friends.
Mrs. Mealey's maiden name was
Anna Semler and she was born on Sept 14, 1845 at Waynesboro, Penn. Had she lived until the 14th of next September she would have been seventy years of age. On Dec 13 1864 she was married to Benjamin F Mealey in Hancock county, Ohio. Thirty-six years ago, the family moved to Kansas locating on Fox creek some ten miles north of Strong City. Mr. Mealey engaged in farming and stock-raising and until his death on Dec. 23, 1906 remained one of the leading farmers of his neighborhood,
Mrs. Mealey is survived by ten children besides two brothers and one sister who live in Ohio. All of the children live in this county and are George and John Mealey, Mrs. Arthur Wilson, Mrs Elizabeth Gannell, Mrs Phoebe Woodward, Mrs. Geo Plummer, Mrs. Ollie Hatter, Fred and Frank Mealey and Miss Grace Mealey.
In 1867 while still a young woman, Mrs. Mealey joined the German Lutheran church in Pennsylvania. She was a kind and loving woman whose life work was giving to her home; the bringing up of her large family of boys and girls whom she cherished as only a mother can, and a life long devotion to her husband. Truly her life has been a useful and a busy one but the noblest and happiest that a woman may live -- for no joy in this world is greater to a woman than her home, husband and children. Her death has brought sorrow to all and her presence will be sadly missed by her loving children and friends.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Aug 10 1914
by Lorna Marvin
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