Miller Co. Autogram July,    Tuscumbia and community were saddened Monday when Mrs. Mat V
Hauenstein passed away at 9;40 p.m.. (12 July, 1922)
   She was the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Challes and was
born on a farm four miles west of Tuscumbia, Mo., December 8, 1852 and
was 69 years, 2 months and 5 days old at the time of her death.
  In 1871(14 March), she was married to Dan Henley.  To this union one
child was born---Mrs. Effie Adcock, of Eldon, who survives her.  Mr.
Henley died in 1881.
    February 4, 1884, Mrs. Henley was married to William H. Hauenstein
and three children were born to this union---Lela, who was married to
Edward  P. Clark, she having died December 10, 1914.  Billie Hauenstien,
who survives and now lives at Eldon; and Elizabeth Wright, who, with her
husband and children, lived with her mother at the time of her death.
     Mrs. Hauenstein was a devoted Christian, having united with the
Methodist church in early life. She had been a constant but patient
sufferer  with rheumatism for 10 years, but did not become seriously
sick till
last week.
    Aunt Mat  as she was familiarly known to her friends, was an
affectionate mother and a kind neighbor.  The evening of her life was
spent in  suffering, but she always enjoyed having her friends about her
and con-
versed with relatives and friends till only a few hours before death.
     Services are to be held, today (Wednesday) at 2 o'clock at the
Presbyterian church and conducted by Rev. Fred E Miles, pastor of  the
Methodist church----Burial will be in the family lot in the Tuscumbia
Cemetery.