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Matta Matilda Davis Sweet

Birth
Welton, Clinton County, Iowa, USA
Death
18 Jun 1943 (aged 70)
Loma Linda, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Burial
Colton, San Bernardino County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Angelus Lot, the farthest lot south going straight in from Waterman, starting at the southeast corner, by the Carver bench on the corner,seventh row, about twenty-seven spaces in from the corner going west
Memorial ID
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did not find an obituary for her in the San Bernardino newspaper

from WORLD CONNECT, Metta Matilda Davis was born in Welton, Iowa on November 7, 1872 to Newton Davis of Wisconsin and Margaret Jane Clement of Ohio, one of their nine children. She married Justin Eugene Sweet of Minnesota in 1890 and they had three children. She died on June 18, 1943 in Loma Linda, California. She is also listed as Nettie Matilda and marrying Justin Eugene Sweet on November 11, 1890 in North Loup, Nebraska
Metta A. (Davis) Sweet 1872-1943
Jon Saunders - Jun 23, 2009
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 135, No 1, p 16, July 5, 1943.
Mrs. Metta Sweet, daughter of Newton and Jane Davis, was born at Welton, Iowa, November 8, 1872, and died at the Loma Linda Sanitarium, June 18, 1943.
Besides her husband, Justin Sweet, she is survived by her three children, Mrs. Bessie Babcock, Mrs. Marie Rich, and Lawrence Sweet.
Mrs. Sweet was a most capable, community-minded woman. She was outspoken and sincere, most resourceful, and generous of her time and abilities in all the causes that appealed to her heart. She had come into a blessed sense of the presence of God with her.
The farewell service was held June 21, and burial was at Montecito.

from ANCESTRY.COM, Metta Matilda Davis was born on November 7, 1872 to Newton Davis and Margaret Jane Clement. She married Justin Eugene Sweet on November 11, 1980 in Loup City, Nebraska. She died in Loma Linda(or San Bernardino), California on June 18, 1943.
did not find an obituary for her in the San Bernardino newspaper

from WORLD CONNECT, Metta Matilda Davis was born in Welton, Iowa on November 7, 1872 to Newton Davis of Wisconsin and Margaret Jane Clement of Ohio, one of their nine children. She married Justin Eugene Sweet of Minnesota in 1890 and they had three children. She died on June 18, 1943 in Loma Linda, California. She is also listed as Nettie Matilda and marrying Justin Eugene Sweet on November 11, 1890 in North Loup, Nebraska
Metta A. (Davis) Sweet 1872-1943
Jon Saunders - Jun 23, 2009
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 135, No 1, p 16, July 5, 1943.
Mrs. Metta Sweet, daughter of Newton and Jane Davis, was born at Welton, Iowa, November 8, 1872, and died at the Loma Linda Sanitarium, June 18, 1943.
Besides her husband, Justin Sweet, she is survived by her three children, Mrs. Bessie Babcock, Mrs. Marie Rich, and Lawrence Sweet.
Mrs. Sweet was a most capable, community-minded woman. She was outspoken and sincere, most resourceful, and generous of her time and abilities in all the causes that appealed to her heart. She had come into a blessed sense of the presence of God with her.
The farewell service was held June 21, and burial was at Montecito.

from ANCESTRY.COM, Metta Matilda Davis was born on November 7, 1872 to Newton Davis and Margaret Jane Clement. She married Justin Eugene Sweet on November 11, 1980 in Loup City, Nebraska. She died in Loma Linda(or San Bernardino), California on June 18, 1943.

Inscription

MATTA SWEET / 1872 - 1943

Gravesite Details

Buried between Justin Sweet and Melvin Rich in the seventh row from the south curb in the Angelus Lot, CDI lists her as METTA), provided the dates, mother's maiden name of Clement and being born in Iowa, no SSDI#



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