OSWALT, Mammie Verba - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

“Shawnee Mound” news – Several from here attended the funeral of Miss Verba Oswalt at Waynetown Monday.  

Mammie Verba, daughter of J. W. and Eliza J. Oswalt, was born November 21, 1886, near Waynetown, Ind. She united with the United Brethren church near Waynetown some few years ago under the pastorate of Rev. Taylor and has since lived a pure, quiet Christian life. Part of her early childhood was spent with her family at Odell, Tippecanoe county, Ind. From there she went with her parents to a farm north of Waynetown, and two years ago moved with her parents to their present home eight miles southwest of Crawfordsville, where after an illness of only thr ee days, departed this life in peaceful sleep on Sept 28, 1912, at the age of 25 years 10 months and 7 days.  She was the only daughter of a family of five children and leaves to mourn her loss besides her father and mother, three brothers —John F., of Wingate, Ray of Odell, and Vern; two half-sisters, Mrs. Stella Lister of Ordway, Col., and Mrs. Ida Holland of Onley Springs, Col.; and Charles Oswalt of Odell, Ind. Three uncles, three aunts and families in Lafayette, by her mother’s side, four uncles and three aunts near Attica, by her father’s side, and many other friends. Rev. Taylor of Otterbein conducted the funeral at the Waynetown Baptist church and interment was made in the Waynetown Masonic cemetery Monday morning, September 30, 1912. –-- kbz