Jemima Josephine Bales was a daughter of Allen Caleb and Emily Jane (Starbuck) Bales. She married 3 Nov 1886 in Wayne County, IN, Thomas Whelan. They had no children.
The Cambridge City (IN) Tribune, Thursday, April 28, 1898
Josephine J. Bales Whelan was born in Flatwood, Perry county, Tennessee, February 5, 1858, and came to Indiana with her parents, Allen C. and Emily J. Bales, in 1859, living at various places in the State, and finally came to Dublin in 1878, where she was married to Thomas F. Whelan, of Cambridge City, by Rev. Waltz, November 4, 1886[sic], at which latter place they lived a short time and then moved to Randolph county, where they have made their home ever since. She died in Modoc, Friday, April 22, 1898, of nervous prostration. She was raised a Friend and had a birthright in that church, and had ever lived a pure and christian life. By her many kind benevolent and charitable acts, she was endeared and loved by all with whom she became acquainted. She leaves to mourn their sad loss, a sorrowing, grief-stricken husband, an aged mother, Emily J. Bales, and four brothers, Thomas Monroe Bales and George R. Bales, of Mt. Auburn, Wayne county, Jesse Bales of Raleigh, Rush county, and Henry R. Bales, of Alexandria, Madison county, besides many other relatives and friends to mourn with those who mourn. She was a loved and devoted member of Modoc Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, and Modoc Lodge of Rathbone Sisters, the members of which orders paid their highest and holiest tributes of affection and fraternal love to her during her long sad hours of affliction and final departure to that 'bourne from whence no traveller returns,' and laid her to rest with their beautiful and impressive ceremonies. Funeral services were conducted at the residence of Monroe Bales in Mt. Auburn by Rev. Wilcox, of this city, on Sunday, April 24, at 2 o'clock p.m., assisted by membersof the M. E. choir, of Cambridge City, after which she was buried in the East cemetery, Dublin, with the ceremonies of the orders. The floral tributes from the orders, to which she belonged and many loving friends were numerous and the designs extremely beautiful and suggestive. Cherished be her memory.
NOTE: Whoever wrote her obituary erred in stating she was buried at East Cemetery. She is buried at Riverside in Cambridge City.
Jemima Josephine Bales was a daughter of Allen Caleb and Emily Jane (Starbuck) Bales. She married 3 Nov 1886 in Wayne County, IN, Thomas Whelan. They had no children.
The Cambridge City (IN) Tribune, Thursday, April 28, 1898
Josephine J. Bales Whelan was born in Flatwood, Perry county, Tennessee, February 5, 1858, and came to Indiana with her parents, Allen C. and Emily J. Bales, in 1859, living at various places in the State, and finally came to Dublin in 1878, where she was married to Thomas F. Whelan, of Cambridge City, by Rev. Waltz, November 4, 1886[sic], at which latter place they lived a short time and then moved to Randolph county, where they have made their home ever since. She died in Modoc, Friday, April 22, 1898, of nervous prostration. She was raised a Friend and had a birthright in that church, and had ever lived a pure and christian life. By her many kind benevolent and charitable acts, she was endeared and loved by all with whom she became acquainted. She leaves to mourn their sad loss, a sorrowing, grief-stricken husband, an aged mother, Emily J. Bales, and four brothers, Thomas Monroe Bales and George R. Bales, of Mt. Auburn, Wayne county, Jesse Bales of Raleigh, Rush county, and Henry R. Bales, of Alexandria, Madison county, besides many other relatives and friends to mourn with those who mourn. She was a loved and devoted member of Modoc Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, and Modoc Lodge of Rathbone Sisters, the members of which orders paid their highest and holiest tributes of affection and fraternal love to her during her long sad hours of affliction and final departure to that 'bourne from whence no traveller returns,' and laid her to rest with their beautiful and impressive ceremonies. Funeral services were conducted at the residence of Monroe Bales in Mt. Auburn by Rev. Wilcox, of this city, on Sunday, April 24, at 2 o'clock p.m., assisted by membersof the M. E. choir, of Cambridge City, after which she was buried in the East cemetery, Dublin, with the ceremonies of the orders. The floral tributes from the orders, to which she belonged and many loving friends were numerous and the designs extremely beautiful and suggestive. Cherished be her memory.
NOTE: Whoever wrote her obituary erred in stating she was buried at East Cemetery. She is buried at Riverside in Cambridge City.
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