[Martha M. Thompson Patton]

Taylor County Herald

Thursday    July 1934

Mrs. Martha M. Patton

Mrs. Martha M. Patton, beloved mother of Miss Rena Patton, and sister of Miss Hettie Thompson, who formerly lived in the Burnside and Elvaston neighborhoods, passed away at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday, July 22^nd, 1934.  Had she lived until December she would have attained her 85^th birthday.

Services in her memory were held in beautiful Hollywood Chapel on July 24^th and she was laid to rest beside her husband [James Gaines Patton] who passed away in 1910.  Many beautiful flowers were a silent testimonial to the love and respect in which she was held by many friends.

Present for the services were cousins who reside in southern California:  Mr. and Mrs. George Campbell, of Orange; Mr. and Mrs. Will Geddes of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kirkpatrick of Pomona.  Kenneth Kirkpatrick is the only grandchild of townsman, George W. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Patton was a cousin of his mother, Mrs. E.W. Kirkpatrick, who resides in Sulphur, Okla.

[Martha M. Thompson Patton]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    August 2, 1934    [p. 1]

Former Resident Dies

Mrs. J. [ames] G. [aines] Patton [Martha Thompson], a resident of Bedford and community forty years go, died at her home in Los Angeles, Calif., Sunday, July 22.  She was the [step] mother of the late Fred Patton of west of Bedford.

[Mattie Kemery Davidson]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    November 8, 1934    [p. 1]

Mrs. A. V. Davidson Dies

Mrs. A. [rthur] V. [erne] Davidson died at her home in Wichita, Kans., Wednesday.  The body will be brought to Bedford for burial.  Mrs. Davidson was a former resident of this community, being Miss Nettie [sic] [Mattie] Kemery before her marriage.  She was a sister-in-law of A. B. Davidson, who resides just east of Bedford.

[Mattie Kemery Davidson]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    November 15, 1934    p. 4

Mrs. A. V. Davidson Funeral Here Sunday

Funeral services for Mrs. A. [rthur] V. [erne] Davidson, 51, who died at her home in Wichita, Kans., Wednesday, Nov. 7, were held at the Wetmore Funeral Home in Bedford Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. C. Harris.  Interment in the Bedford mausoleum.

Mrs. Davidson, who before her marriage was Miss Mattie Kemery, was born Sept. 13, 1883.  She was married to Arthur Verne Davidson, Dec. 23, 1903.  Before her marriage both resided in Bedford.  Mr. Davidson was a member of Company I in the Spanish-American war.  He died May 7, 1928.

She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star.

Surviving relatives are her mother, Mrs. Anna F. Kemery of Blockton; four sisters, Mrs. Osta Amrine of Hocomo, Mo., Miss Ode Kemery of Blockton, Mrs. Rose Bothel of Cupar, Sask., Canada, and Mrs. Georgia Ford of Blockton; and one brother, Floyd Kemery of Des Moines.

[Effie May Kemery Goff]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    January 9, 1936    p. 4

Former Resident Dies In Chadron, Nebr.

Mrs. Lovell Goff, 64, a former resident of the Bedford community, died at the Municipal Hospital in Chadron, Nebr., Dec. 12.  The funeral services wee held at the Congregational church in Chadron and burial was in the Greenwood cemetery.

Effie May Kemery, daughter of John and Mary Jane [Hoover] Kemery, was born at Bedford, Iowa, Feb. 26, 1871.  At the age of nineteen she moved with her parents to Dawes County, Nebr., and spent the remainder of her life there.

Feb. 26, 1891, she was married to Lovell Goff of Dawes County, Nebr., moving on the land he homesteaded in 1885, and where they made their home.  To them were born five children, all of whom survive.  They are Waldo K. Goff, Mrs. Lillian Hayden, Mrs. Myrtle Nixon, Mrs. Mable Schumacher, and Theodore L. Goff, all of the Chadron vicinity.  Mr. Goff died April 10, 1906.

Mrs. Goff is also survived by three sisters and one brother, all of Taylor County; also fifteen grandchildren.

[Irene McCloud]

Bedford Times-Press

Thursday    July 30, 1936    [p.1]

Miss Irene McCloud Dies Last Monday

Miss Irene McCloud, a resident of Bedford and Taylor County nearly all of her life, died at her home in Bedford Monday, July 27, after a short illness, at the age of 81 years, 8 months and 13 days.

The funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal Church at 10 0'clock this morning, Thursday, July 30, conducted by Rev. J. Stanley Decker.  Burial was in the Graceland cemetery.

Miss Irene McCloud, daughter of John Self and Miranda Jane McCloud, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, November 14, 1854.

At the age of two years she moved with her parents to Farmington, Iowa, and one year later the family moved to Taylor County, where she had since resided.

She began teaching school at the age of fifteen, teaching in the rural schools and later in the Bedford graded school.  She served as county superintendent of the public schools for one term.

She was a member of the Methodist church and took a great interest in the Sunday school, the Epworth League and the Foreign Missionary society. She was also a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.       

[Irene McCloud]

Taylor County Herald

Thursday   July 30, 1936    [p.1]

Rites Held Today for Irene McCloud

Rites were held this morning at ten o'clock from the Methodist church in Bedford for Irene McCloud, 81, veteran public school teacher and a former Taylor county superintendent.

Miss McCloud, ill only a few days, died Monday evening of pneumonia resulting from laryngitis.

She is survived by a sister, Miss Eva McCloud of Bedford; a brother, Lincoln McCloud of Washington, D.C., and by a sister-in-law, Mrs. Carr McCloud [Emmie Dee Murphy] of Shreveport, La.

The services were conducted by the Rev. J.  Stanley Decker.  Interment was in Graceland cemetery.