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Obits > 1915 Mary DeYoe

Submitted by Melva Taylor

The Sterling Daily Gazette, Sterling, Illinois
June 21, 1915 - Monday, pg 2, col. 3
 
MARY  DEYOE
 
DEATH OF MRS. DEYOE
Well Known Woman Passes Away Sunday Morning on East Third Street
 
The death of Mrs. George Deyoe occurred Sunday morning about 10:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Emma Deyoe.  The funeral will be held at house Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  The interment will be in the Rock Falls I.O.O.F. cemetery.  Rev. John Boyd Johnston, pastor of the Congregational church, will officiate.
 
Mary Lee was born in Newark, New Jersey, about seventy-four years ago.  When young she came west with her family to DeKalb county, Illinois, where she lived near Sycamore, for many years.  She married George O. Deyoe in 1866 at her home, going shortly afterward to Polo, where they lived a couple years.  They went from Polo to Sterling in 1868, and after two or three years in that city they moved to Rock Falls, which was then in its infancy.  They bought a lot on East Third street and erected a house and lived there up to the time of Mr. Deyoe's death, which occurred nine years ago, February 2, 1906.  Mrs. Deyoe has lived in her home most of the time since her husband's death.
 
About three years ago she was stricken with paralysis.  She never fully recovered from its effects and later received another stroke, leaving her quite weak most of the time.  She has been out but very little since.  She was first stricken at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lyman Allison, in Chicago, whom she was visiting.
 
Sunday morning Mrs.Deyoe got up feeling as usual and sat down to breakfast with the family, when she was taken with apoplexy.   A doctor was summoned and she revived from it.  About 10 o'clock she was taken with another stroke and died inside of a half hour.  She partially recovered consciousness, but indicated that she had no pain.
 
Mrs. Deyoe had a great many friends.  She was a woman well liked by all who knew her and she leaves a great many friends to mourn her loss.  She leaves the following immediate relatives:  Her daughter, Mrs. Lyman Allison, of Chicago, and the following brothers:  Bert and Frank of Lynn, Clayton of Iowa, Charles of Chicago, and Harry of Fulton, besides many other relatives.  Her daughter and husband had been visiting her for several weeks, and Mr. Allison had returned home the week before and had returned Saturday night to take his wife home this morning.

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