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Lizzie Drum <I>Field</I> Wileman

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Lizzie Drum Field Wileman

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
5 May 1912 (aged 63)
Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Seneca, Nemaha County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
328- 2
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Daughter of Cornelius P. and Mary Drum Field.
Born at Field Station, PA.
Married to Thomas H. Wileman on Apr. 11, 1871 at Harve De Grace, MD.

COURIER DEMOCRAT )Seneca, Kansas)- Thursday, May 9, 1912- Page 1.
MRS. LIZZIE WILEMAN
After an illness of almost a years duration, Mrs. Lizzie D. Wileman departed from this life Sunday evening, May 5th, at 7:30, aged sixty-three years and six days. Death was due to apoplexy, with which she was stricken the third time in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Lizzie Drum Field, daughter of Cornelius P. and Mary S. Field, was born at Gields station, near Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania April 29, 1849. In her girlhood days, her parents removed to Havre de Grace, Maryland, where she was united in marriage to dr. Thomas h. Wileman of Green valley, Illinois, April 11, 1871. Soon afterward, she accompanied her husband to Green Valley, where they made their home for seventeen years. during this time she encouraged her companion in his work and took an active part in the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School as a faithful teacher in addition to her home duties. She became a member of the Methodist church at Havre de Grace at the age of fourteen. After Mr. Wileman's health failed, with her family she removed to clay Center, Nebraska, in the fall of 1887. The next year they came to a farm in Nemaha county and resided on a farm near Old Lincoln until the fall of 1899 when they came to Seneca. Mr. Wileman passed away at the family home January 3, 1911. Of her immediate family, Mrs. Wileman leaves three daughters, Misses Mabel, Bessie and Fannie, who cared for her tenderly throughout her illness; two brothers, W. O. Field of Harve de grace, and James C. Field, of Washington D. C. and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Baldwin of Have de grace, Mrs. Margaret P. Snyder, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Ida H Russell, of Annapolis, Maryland. Two sons died in infancy.

After removing to Seneca, Mrs. Wileman transferred her membership to the Methodist Episcopal church at Seneca and although she found it not possible to attend the public services as regularly as in her younger days she was intensely interested in the church and its teachings. Always bright and cheerful in disposition, she wielded a sweet unselfish influence in her home and among her friends. funeral services will be held from the home this (Thursday) afternoon at 3:00 o'clock conducted by her pastor, Rev.. L. T. South, and interment was made by the side of her husband in the city cemetery. The relatives attending the funeral were her sister, Mrs. Joseph Russell, of Annapolis, Maryland and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Virginia Wileman of Clay Center, Nebraska.
Daughter of Cornelius P. and Mary Drum Field.
Born at Field Station, PA.
Married to Thomas H. Wileman on Apr. 11, 1871 at Harve De Grace, MD.

COURIER DEMOCRAT )Seneca, Kansas)- Thursday, May 9, 1912- Page 1.
MRS. LIZZIE WILEMAN
After an illness of almost a years duration, Mrs. Lizzie D. Wileman departed from this life Sunday evening, May 5th, at 7:30, aged sixty-three years and six days. Death was due to apoplexy, with which she was stricken the third time in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Lizzie Drum Field, daughter of Cornelius P. and Mary S. Field, was born at Gields station, near Williamsport, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania April 29, 1849. In her girlhood days, her parents removed to Havre de Grace, Maryland, where she was united in marriage to dr. Thomas h. Wileman of Green valley, Illinois, April 11, 1871. Soon afterward, she accompanied her husband to Green Valley, where they made their home for seventeen years. during this time she encouraged her companion in his work and took an active part in the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School as a faithful teacher in addition to her home duties. She became a member of the Methodist church at Havre de Grace at the age of fourteen. After Mr. Wileman's health failed, with her family she removed to clay Center, Nebraska, in the fall of 1887. The next year they came to a farm in Nemaha county and resided on a farm near Old Lincoln until the fall of 1899 when they came to Seneca. Mr. Wileman passed away at the family home January 3, 1911. Of her immediate family, Mrs. Wileman leaves three daughters, Misses Mabel, Bessie and Fannie, who cared for her tenderly throughout her illness; two brothers, W. O. Field of Harve de grace, and James C. Field, of Washington D. C. and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Baldwin of Have de grace, Mrs. Margaret P. Snyder, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Ida H Russell, of Annapolis, Maryland. Two sons died in infancy.

After removing to Seneca, Mrs. Wileman transferred her membership to the Methodist Episcopal church at Seneca and although she found it not possible to attend the public services as regularly as in her younger days she was intensely interested in the church and its teachings. Always bright and cheerful in disposition, she wielded a sweet unselfish influence in her home and among her friends. funeral services will be held from the home this (Thursday) afternoon at 3:00 o'clock conducted by her pastor, Rev.. L. T. South, and interment was made by the side of her husband in the city cemetery. The relatives attending the funeral were her sister, Mrs. Joseph Russell, of Annapolis, Maryland and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Virginia Wileman of Clay Center, Nebraska.


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