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Buried:
- DIED SATURDAY AT BROTHER'S HOME
Mrs. Luella [Ella] Stafford, age sixty-six died Saturday morning at twelve-thirty o'clock, at the home of her brother, Benjamin Cherry, 146 John street. She had been stricken with embolism on Friday night, November 23. She had been unconscious since that time.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cherry, and was born September 23, 1862.
Mrs. Stafford was a member of the Lewis Creek Baptist church, south of Shelbyville, and was also a member of Kiowa Council, Degree of Pocahontas. She had lived for a number of years in Shelby township, and was widely known through that part of the county.
Surviving are two brothers, Benjamin Cherry, at whose home she died and William S. Cherry, also of Shelbyville; and two sisters, Mrs. Jessie Rick, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Cora Deitzer, of Shelbyville. A niece and three nephews also survive her.
Funeral services will be held at the home in John street, Monday afternoon at two o'clock. The Rev. R. R. Cross, pastor of the West Street Methodist church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Mrs. Mary M. Tindall in charge. Friends may call at the home Sunday afternoon and evening and Monday from nine o'clock until the hour of the funeral services.
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1862 - 1928 (66 years)
