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Note: "Mrs. J.E. Chappell died at her home northeast of this city last Thursday afternoon at 3 o`clock, of tubersulosis of the stomach. Mrs. Chappell`s maiden name was Odell, and she was born in this county April 12, 1848, and nearly all of the fifty-four years of her life were spent in Saline. Early in life she gave her heart to God and to the end her life was that of an exemplary christian woman. On December 15, 1869, she was married to J.E. Chappell, and to the union were born seven children, five of whom, with the husband, survive the devoted mother and wife. The children are Mrs. W.R. Martin and Mrs. W.G. Woodsmall, of this county, Mrs. Floyd Johnson, of Nebraska, Mrs. Allen Proctor, of California, and Thomas Chappell, all of whom were at the mother`s bedside except Mrs. Proctor, who could not be present. Thomas, the youngest child, and the only one living at home, is a youth of fifteen. He was most devoted to his mother and constituted himself her nurse during her entire illness. His care of her was as tender as ever hers could have been of him. The funeral services were conducted Friday at the residence by Rev. B.T. Wharton, of the Christian church, and the burial was made in the Odell cemetery." (Saline County Index, September 18, 1902, page 3.) Lucretia Emmaline Odell is buried in the Odell Cemetery in Marshall, Saline Co., MO.
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