Waukegan Daily Sun Saturday, June 14, 1902
AGED RESIDENT DEAD.
MRS. B. G. BLOWNEY EXPIRED
AT 3:45 THIS AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Katherine Blowney, wife of B. G. Blowney, died at her home, 306 Franklin street, at 3:35 this afternoon, her demise culminating an extended period of ill health.
Mrs Blowney was in the 74th year of her age.
She was one of the county's earliest settlers, locating with her husband upon a farm near Gurnee in 1840, and later moving to Waukegan which city she had seen grow from a wilderness. She was a most estimable woman, who during her long life in city and county gained universal respect and friendship.
No arrangement has yet been made for the funeral, though it will probably be held Monday.
Precedded in death by her children:
William Lincoln Blowney 1858-1860
Delos Cleaver Blowney 1860-1860
Henry Ellsworth "Elmer" Blowney 1862-1929
Elizabeth A. Blowney 1866-
Benjamin Charles Blowney 1868-1940
Walter Samuel Blowney 1870-1929
Waukegan Daily Sun Saturday, June 14, 1902
AGED RESIDENT DEAD.
MRS. B. G. BLOWNEY EXPIRED
AT 3:45 THIS AFTERNOON.
Mrs. Katherine Blowney, wife of B. G. Blowney, died at her home, 306 Franklin street, at 3:35 this afternoon, her demise culminating an extended period of ill health.
Mrs Blowney was in the 74th year of her age.
She was one of the county's earliest settlers, locating with her husband upon a farm near Gurnee in 1840, and later moving to Waukegan which city she had seen grow from a wilderness. She was a most estimable woman, who during her long life in city and county gained universal respect and friendship.
No arrangement has yet been made for the funeral, though it will probably be held Monday.
Precedded in death by her children:
William Lincoln Blowney 1858-1860
Delos Cleaver Blowney 1860-1860
Henry Ellsworth "Elmer" Blowney 1862-1929
Elizabeth A. Blowney 1866-
Benjamin Charles Blowney 1868-1940
Walter Samuel Blowney 1870-1929
Gravesite Details
Sister of Elizabeth Jane Cleaver, Isabella Cleaver and Sarah Jane Dowst.
Family Members
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Anna Cleaver Sutherland
1811–1881
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Mary Cleaver Keele
1813–1893
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Charles Cleaver Jr
1814–1893
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William Cleaver
1815–1896
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Hellen Eleanor Cleaver Scott
1817–1897
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Thomas Barker Cleaver
1818 – unknown
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Isabella Cleaver
1820–1896
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Henry Harding Cleaver
1821–1899
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Elizabeth Jane Cleaver
1822–1909
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Jane Sarah Cleaver Dowst
1823–1901
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Joseph Wraith Cleaver
1825–1901
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George Cleaver
1826–1834
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Catherine "Kate" Cleaver
1828–1828
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Augusta "Gus" Cleaver Brown
1832–1913
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