Kirk - May Dukes - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Darlington -- Mrs. Alden Cook, age 32 dropped dead here in the street tod ay about noon from heart disease. She had driven a horse hitched to a bug gy to town from her country home and was in the act of tying the anim al to the hitch rack when her muscles relaxed and she dropped to the snow- covered ground. Walter Martin and Ernest Frances, two farmers who were tyi ng their horses to the same rack, saw the woman faint away and hurri ed to her side and carried her hastily into the hardware store of Cox & Bo oher. Dr. Norman Peacock was summoned and came at once and rendered assist ance but without avail as the woman only gasped a time or two after she w as carried into the store. The dead woman underwent a surgical operati on at an Indianapolis hospital last July during which 35 gall stones we re removed. Her husband states that she has been bothered with heart disea se considerably during the past four or five weeks. Besides her husband, M rs. Cook is survived by two small daughters and one son.

Source: Crawfordsville Review Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1914

"Mrs. Kirk was a daughter of the late James Dykes, of Sugar Creek townshi p. She is survived by her husband, Alden Kirk, two daughters and one so n. The funeral services will be conducted at the home near Bowers, Wednesd ay morning at 10:30."

Thanks to Barbara B for finding this short obituary that proved Cook was NOT her name.

Thanks to Kathy L for finding her on findagrave.com - this not only confirmed Alden Kirk as her husband but there is a picture of her. Beautiful lady!

Thanks to Lena for doing the findagrave posting - wow, my Montgomery Co folks are AWESOME!!