Obit of Mrs. John (Phebe Easley) FitzHenry 1937
From the Chatsworth Plaindealer
Chatsworth,Livingston,Illinois
MRS. JOHN (PHEBE EASLEY) FITZHENRY
APRIL 29, 1937
Less than a month before she would have celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary, Mrs. Phebe E. FitzHenry, mother of the Rev. Charles FitzHenry, of Milford, and of Mrs. William E. Cording, of Chatsworth, died at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 1937, at the home of her son in Milford, at the age of 100 years, 11 months and 1 day. Mrs. FitzHenry had been seriously ill two weeks. She was a semi-invalid for several years.
The body was taken to Lewistown Tuesday morning by automobile. Funeral services in charge of E.H. Hauk, Piper City mortician, were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the first Presbyterian church in Lewistown, the Rev. Ralph Close officiating. Burial was made in Oak Hill cemetery, Lewistown.
The pall bearers were grand nephews and one great-grand nephew. From Chatsworth, a grandaughter, Mrs. Blanche Remmers and her husband H.J. Remmers attended the funeral, Mrs. Cording not being able to make the long trip.
Phebe Easley was born May 23, 1836, in a log cabin on the prairie where Ipava, Illinois, in now located. She was a daughter of John and Nancy Easley, who came from Ohio and Virginia to Illinois 1832. The town of Ipava was laid out by her father on his land. He also gave land for churches, schools and parks.
After her marriage to John FitzHenry in 1870, her home was near Lewistown where two sons and two daughters were born. One of her daughtrs died in infancy. The youngest son, Newman L. lives at Stinson Beach, California.
Besides her two sons and daughter she leaves four stepchildren near Lewistown, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Since the death of her husband in 1905, she has made her home with her son, Charles, residing in different towns where he served in a ministerial capacity, and wherever she lived she endeared herself to many friends.
She has been known for many years in Chatsworth, at intervals making sojourns of varying durations with her daughter and family and residing in Piper City during her sons's ministry also.
On the occasion of her hundredth birthday, last May, many friends paid tribute to her at Milford, where she has lived the past three years.
It was always the wish of Mrs. FitzHenry to have her funeral services in the Presbyterian church at Lewistown, where she has kept her membership for over 65 years and to which she yearly contributed. Last year the church held its centennial anniversary and the minister in his sermon Tuesday remarked that the best letter received was the one from Mrs. FitzHenry.