McDougal at Catskill, New Mexico.īefore her death she selected the text and hymns she wished would be used at her funeral service. She was married to Arthur Stone in 1880 to which union six sons and two daughters survive her, together with the three sons of her first marriage. After a struggle to support her children she consented to let the two youngest be adopted by two well to do Christian families, where they have been well raised and educated. In 1878 they moved to Texas, where he died suddenly a few months afterwards from the bite of a venomous insect, leaving his young widow and three little ones, the eldest but five years old and the youngest but a few months among strangers in a strange country with very little funds. Three sons were born to them: Thomas, Walter and William. The terrible blizzard and snow storm of the winter of 1873-4 in that part of the state killed his stock and practically ruined Mr. Both husband and wife joined the United Brethren at St. He was a wealthy farmer and stockman of Howard county. She had been an invalid for the past four years, and has tried the various climates of the west and south for relief without avail, and her husband has patiently devoted his time and means for her comfort in a meek kindly and self sacrificing manner.Įmma Jones was born in Mercer county, Missouri, May 20, 1857, was married to Thomas Orton at Grand Island, Nebr., May 15, 1872. Lee, 406 Main Avenue, Sunday, February 16, 1913, where she has been visiting for the past ten days. McDougal died at the residence of her sister, Mrs.
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