The LaHarper
La Harpe, Illinois
Friday
June 16, 1916
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Column 6MRS. THOMP LIONBERGER
DIED -- At her home in La Harpe, Ill., at 1:15 a. m., Monday, June 12, 1916, MRS. EMMA LIONBERGER, wife of Thompson Lionberger, aged 52 years, 7 months and 29 days.
Mrs. Lionberger's decline in health began about a year ago and continued steadily in spite of the best local treatment available. A few weeks ago she was taken to a sanitarium at Moline where they make a specialty of cases like hers, but nothing could be done there either and she was brought home after a short stay at the institution. Her ailment was diagnosed as pernicious anemia.
Her maiden name was Emma Nixon and she was born at Maysville, Kentucky, Oct. 13, 1863. She came to Carthage, Hancock county, about the year 1880, where she met Thompson Lionberger and the subsequent courtship resulted in marriage on Oct. 28, 1883. The couple continued to reside in Carthage until 1893 when they moved to this city which has been their home ever since. Mrs. Lionberger followed the profession of school teacher back in the Blue Grass state.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Lionberger were born four children, Alice, now the wife of Clay Nudd, of La Harpe; the twin boys, Claude and Clyde; and Clarence who died at the age of two years. Claude now has a responsible position with an electrical firm at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America, and Clyde is a railroad man living at Hamilton. The husband also survives.
Mrs. Lionberger was an active woman until her health began to break and took a great interest in her family and church work. She united with the Christian church Sept. 23, 1897 and taught in the Sunday school for several years. She has a host of friends who will mourn with the family in their great bereavement.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Eld Keltch officiating. A large concourse of friends were present in sympathy with the sorrowing friends. The casket was banked in beautiful floral tributes. A quartet, Messrs. McClure and Soule and Mrs. Coder and Miss Vera McClure were in charge of the music, Miss McClure sang, "I Shall See Him Face to Face" in a very touching manner.
The burial was in the city cemetery.
A Season of Mourning
The Lionberger family who gathered here Tuesday, to bury their dead, have had a sad experience in the past year. Seven have been taken from their circle in that time, six of whom died since the first of the year. Mrs. H. A. Prettyman, of Covington, Tennessee, died in July, 1915; a sister, Mrs. Mary A. Huston, died in this city Jan. 6, 1916, Scott Grove, of LaCrosse, died in February; Milt Jacobs, of Peoria, died May 28. These were first cousins and Rufus Crow died June 4, a nephew and Jackson Thompson, of Carthage, an uncle, died June 1st and Mrs. Lionberger makes the record of seven deaths within the year and six since January 1. Truly theirs has been a season of mourning.
