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a. Note:   Miss Maria Pierce, a daughter of the Rev. Robert and Mrs. Pierce, Pioneer settlers of the county, died at home last Friday afternoon after an illness of nearly six months from typhoid and malaria fever. The funeral services were held at the Urbana Congregational church at 11:45 last Sunday and were attended by an unusually large number, many being unable to gain admission in the church. There were fifty-two teams in the funeral procession to the cemetery. Rev. Smores of Loomis and Prof. Hart of Franklin Academy, an old time friend of the Pierce family, officiated at the funeral service which was most solemn and impressive. Maria Pierce was born April 3rd, 1872, in Winnebago Co., Wis. In the following year the family moved to Braidwood, Ill., where they lived for four years, going to Iowa in 1877. They moved to their present home in Nebraska, in June, 1884, when Maria was twelve years old. She became a member of the Welsh Congregational church, of Long Creek, Iowa, when she was a child. She entered Franklin Academy in 1888 where she was graduated in 1893. Of the following eight years, four were spent in teaching in the district schools of Phelps county, and four as a student at Doane College. She graduated from the classical course of Doane in June 1901. During the summer of 1902 she was appointed by the American Missionary Association of congregational churches as a teacher in the normal grades of Dorchester Academy, McIntosh, Georgia, where she began work in October, which proved to be her last school work on earth. In April, 1903 she was taken sick with typhoid and malaria fever, and returned home May 14th. Her sickness was of twenty one weeks duration, and was borne with Christian patience. Though at times a great sufferer, yet her consideration for others was not lost sight of. Her last words were, "Heaven is coming." "Heaven is coming." Her death was not unexpected, early in the morning she called the family together and bade them all good bye, and expired at 2:48 in the afternoon of September 25th. She has preceded her parents, four sisters and two brothers. The family have the sympathy of a large circle of friends and neighbors all of whom loved Maria and appreciated her sterling worth.


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