The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-08-22

fifteen days of being Sc years old.
August 20, 1885, he married Emma
Viola Kennedy, of Brunswick, who
survives him. When small child
Mr.. Bowen lived with his parents in
a house west of Strong's Corners and
his step brothers were Chester and
Chauncey Pond. Two children were
born to them, the daughter, Zillah,
died in her earlier years. The son,
VIM. Spencer Bowen still lives and
has been active in the scientific de-
partment in the Aviation service dur
ing the late war. There is also one
granddaughter, Elizabeth Bowen. Mr..
Bowen graduated from Oberlin Col
lege in 1878 and later went as mis-
sionary to Honolulu and made his
home there.
Emma Gates was born at Shreve,
Ohio, Feb. 10, 1865, died at her home
near Canal Fulton, Ohio, March II,
1919, aged 54 years and % days. She
was married to John H. E. Moxley
July 2, 1884. To this union We're born
two sons G. Roeclair and Samuel Will
liam, the latter dying in infancy.
She is survived by a husband, one
son, three brothers, three sisters and
four grandchildren. In the year Of
1899, Mr.. and Mrs. Moxley and son
came here to Brunswick and labored
here with Church of Christ for four
years and as Mrs. Moxley was so ac-
tive in all good works she got to be
well known and liked by all. She Of
ten filled the pulpit in her husbands
absence and did great deal of good.
The funeral was held here March 10
at the Church of Christ, Rev. Goodale,
of Medina, officiating and the remains
laid to rest in our cemetery.
George, son of Sodon and Rosa Tib-
bits, was born here in Brunswick on
August Is, 1858, and died in City Hos
pital, Cleveland, March %. 1919, Of
cancer of the throat, aged 60 years.
He was married to Anna Cullum and
to this union were born two sons,
Claud, who died in 1907, and Fred,
whose home is in Medina. He also
leaves one grandson, an aged mother,
five brothers, Thomas, Of Hebron, Ill.,;
Charles, of Cleveland; Sam, John and
Thed, of Brunswick. He was laid to
rest beside his son Claud in our GEM
etery.
Mrs. Sarah Deming Phelps was
born Aug. 9, 1925, at Henrietta, N.
Y, and on Jan. 27, 1859, she was mar
ried at Rochester, N. Y, to Ralph A..
Phelps, and they came here and lived
in Brunswick for years and then set
tied on the Hinckley side OF the east
town line and lived there "A years.
They were active members OF the
Churh' of Christ and were known by
all. Four children were born to them,
one dying in infancy, Edith E. Brint-
nall, Susie d. Waters, of Medina, and
Sarah Eva Rice, Of Chicago. There
were also eight grandchildren and one
great-grandchild. After the death Of
her husband about 18 years ago she
lived in Liverpool seven years with
her daughter Mrs. Brintnall and the
last ten years in Medina with her
daughter, Mrs. Waters. She was a
good mother, neighbor and friend.
She died Feb. 13, 1919, at the ripe old
age OF SO years and was laid to rest
in Mt. Pleasant cemetery beside her
husband.
Rev. Uri Richards, died at Canton,
o., Feb. z8, 1919, aged nearly "a
years. He entered the North Ohio
Conference seventy years ago and
preached here at the M. E. church in
1864. He was buried at Canton be-
side his wife who died in 1913.
Amanda Snow Dean was born in
Royalton, Ohio, August 18, 1888 and
died February 16, 1919, aged 85 years.
She was the seventh child Of Silas and
Lucy Snow. In 1854 she was mar
ried to Eliha Dean and to this union
three children were born, Mrs. Della
Stephenson, of Cleveland, Mrs. Eva
Reed and Mrs. Meta Sherman, OF
Brunswick. One brother, George Snow,
also survives her. In her early mar
ried life she with her husband went
to Fort Wayne, Ind, where her hus-
band departed from life in 1865, and
shortly afterward she returned to
Ohio and spent her later years here
with her daughter, Mrs. Sherman.
She leaves three daughters, 10 grand
children, five great-grandchildren and
large circle of friends to mourn their
loss. The burial was held at Bennett's S
! Corners.
Simeon Theodore Dunbar was born
in Minerva, Essex county, N. Y, Aug.
II, 1882, and died Feb. 13, 1919, at
his home in North Madison, aged sc
years. In his fourth year his family
came to Brighton, Lorain county, o.,
where he resided until he entered the
regular ministry of the Methodist
Episcopal church. On May /, 1856, he
was united in marriage with Ellen E.
Ackley of East Haddam, Conn.,, who
after sixty-four years Of married life
survives him. To their union were
born three children, Mrs. 7. M. Fonts,
of Madison, O., Prof. B. A. Dunbar,
of Brookings, S. Dak., and the Rev.
Frank |. Dunbar, of Mentor, o., who
also survive him. In 1860, Bro. Dun
bar was licensed local preacher and
supplied various pulpits until" 1868
when he was received on trial into the
travelling ministry in the North Ohio
Conference by Bishop Ames and was
appointed to the Vermillion charge
His subsequent charges were Bruins
wick in the years Of 187O-71-72-74
and while he was here the church
was built and dedicated. Richfield
'73, Penfeld, Galena, Grace church
Delaware, Mount Gilead, Crestline
and Doylestown, giving "a years o1
/ az ar,,ast and affective service To The