Date of birth: 26 Nov 1865 Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 3 Sep 1935 Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
Source: Franklin Evening Star, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana , September 3, 1935
MRS. VIOLA WELLS SUCCUMBS TUESDAY
Widow of John Wells, Former Resident of Peoga
Community - Ill 3 Weeks
Complications which set in following a three
weeks illness proved fatal early Tuesday morning
to Mrs. Viola E. Wells, who passed away at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Ed Stanford and family,
749 North Hurricane Street, at 12:55 a.m.
The body will be returned to near where the
deceased enjoyed her childhood days, at Peoga.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon
at 2:00 oÕclock at the Mt. Olive Methodist Church,
with interment in the Peoga Cemetery.
Mrs. Wells, the widow of John Wells, was born
near Trafalgar on November 26, 1865, the daughter
of Allen and Sarah Snow Buckner.
Mrs. Wells was married shortly after the death
of her parents, her husband succumbing ten years
ago, on July 24, 1925. She had made her home
with her children since the death of a son, two miles
south of Peoga, seven years ago.
She became ill three weeks ago at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stanford, and been confined there
since, where friends are invited to call at any time.
Surviving are one son, Roscoe Wells, of Freetown;
three daughters, Mrs. Ed Stanford and Mrs. Vernon
Ford, of Franklin, and Mrs. Pearl King, of Edinburg;
one sister, Mrs. Oscar Moss, of Oriental, Oklahoma;
a sister-in-law, Mrs. Sam Ashley, of Nineveh.
Also by eight grandchildren, Mae Stanford, Freeda
Stanford, Katherine Stanford, Audry Stanford, Ernest
Ford, and Dorothy Ford, of Franklin, George Wells,
of Freetown, and Lawrence King, of Edinburg.
Two sons, Omer Wells and Charles Wells, both
of Peoga, preceded her in death. Mrs. Wells was a
member of the Methodist Church at Peoga and
formerly attended the Pentecost Church in Franklin.
Submitted by Mark E. Wirey
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