Drusilla was the daughter of Moses Winters and his 2nd wife, Ann S. Perry.
She married about 1874 to Gray Lane Purcell.
Gray and Drusilla are listed in the 1880 and 1900 census of Lemhi County, Idaho. In 1910 they were in Sutter County, California and he was a stock raiser.
The Lemhi Herald, Aug 7, 1914:
MRS. GRAY L. PURCELL
Sad is the word received here of the death near Leadore July 29th of Mrs. Gray L. Purcell, one of the sweetest characters among pioneer women of the west. The funeral was held at Junction Friday the 31st, Rev. E.N. Quist officiating, and the attendance was great, in attestation of the popular esteem in which she was held.
Drusilla Winters Purcell was born in Indiana in 1843, and had passed her 71st birthday. She moved with her parents to Duquoin, Ill., in 1856, and came to Montana in 1874. In that year she was married to Mr. Purcell and they at once moved to Lemhi County, where they took up land in the upper Lemhi Valley, and engaged in the business of stock raising. They worked hard to build up a competence, and raised two children, Mark and Annie, both of whom are respected residents of the vicinity of their birth. The latter is now Mrs. George W. Yearian.
Mr. and Mrs. Purcell have lived in this county ever since they arrived in 1874, excepting, that for the last five years they have spent the winters in California. Death came to Mrs. Purcell at the home of their daughter. She leaves a devoted husband and both children, to grieve at her departure; besides there are two sisters, Mrs. C.C. Hawley of Clyde, Idaho, and Mrs. H.C. McCreery of Huntington Beach, California.
Mrs. Purcell was very well known and loved by all the old timers all over this county, and the sorrow of this hour is shared by a host of long-time acquaintances. The word of her death was brought down by Justice G.F. Yearian of Junction, who has known the Purcells ever since they arrived in the valley and settled on Texas Creek.
She married about 1874 to Gray Lane Purcell.
Gray and Drusilla are listed in the 1880 and 1900 census of Lemhi County, Idaho. In 1910 they were in Sutter County, California and he was a stock raiser.
The Lemhi Herald, Aug 7, 1914:
MRS. GRAY L. PURCELL
Sad is the word received here of the death near Leadore July 29th of Mrs. Gray L. Purcell, one of the sweetest characters among pioneer women of the west. The funeral was held at Junction Friday the 31st, Rev. E.N. Quist officiating, and the attendance was great, in attestation of the popular esteem in which she was held.
Drusilla Winters Purcell was born in Indiana in 1843, and had passed her 71st birthday. She moved with her parents to Duquoin, Ill., in 1856, and came to Montana in 1874. In that year she was married to Mr. Purcell and they at once moved to Lemhi County, where they took up land in the upper Lemhi Valley, and engaged in the business of stock raising. They worked hard to build up a competence, and raised two children, Mark and Annie, both of whom are respected residents of the vicinity of their birth. The latter is now Mrs. George W. Yearian.
Mr. and Mrs. Purcell have lived in this county ever since they arrived in 1874, excepting, that for the last five years they have spent the winters in California. Death came to Mrs. Purcell at the home of their daughter. She leaves a devoted husband and both children, to grieve at her departure; besides there are two sisters, Mrs. C.C. Hawley of Clyde, Idaho, and Mrs. H.C. McCreery of Huntington Beach, California.
Mrs. Purcell was very well known and loved by all the old timers all over this county, and the sorrow of this hour is shared by a host of long-time acquaintances. The word of her death was brought down by Justice G.F. Yearian of Junction, who has known the Purcells ever since they arrived in the valley and settled on Texas Creek.
Drusilla was the daughter of Moses Winters and his 2nd wife, Ann S. Perry.
She married about 1874 to Gray Lane Purcell.
Gray and Drusilla are listed in the 1880 and 1900 census of Lemhi County, Idaho. In 1910 they were in Sutter County, California and he was a stock raiser.
The Lemhi Herald, Aug 7, 1914:
MRS. GRAY L. PURCELL
Sad is the word received here of the death near Leadore July 29th of Mrs. Gray L. Purcell, one of the sweetest characters among pioneer women of the west. The funeral was held at Junction Friday the 31st, Rev. E.N. Quist officiating, and the attendance was great, in attestation of the popular esteem in which she was held.
Drusilla Winters Purcell was born in Indiana in 1843, and had passed her 71st birthday. She moved with her parents to Duquoin, Ill., in 1856, and came to Montana in 1874. In that year she was married to Mr. Purcell and they at once moved to Lemhi County, where they took up land in the upper Lemhi Valley, and engaged in the business of stock raising. They worked hard to build up a competence, and raised two children, Mark and Annie, both of whom are respected residents of the vicinity of their birth. The latter is now Mrs. George W. Yearian.
Mr. and Mrs. Purcell have lived in this county ever since they arrived in 1874, excepting, that for the last five years they have spent the winters in California. Death came to Mrs. Purcell at the home of their daughter. She leaves a devoted husband and both children, to grieve at her departure; besides there are two sisters, Mrs. C.C. Hawley of Clyde, Idaho, and Mrs. H.C. McCreery of Huntington Beach, California.
Mrs. Purcell was very well known and loved by all the old timers all over this county, and the sorrow of this hour is shared by a host of long-time acquaintances. The word of her death was brought down by Justice G.F. Yearian of Junction, who has known the Purcells ever since they arrived in the valley and settled on Texas Creek.
She married about 1874 to Gray Lane Purcell.
Gray and Drusilla are listed in the 1880 and 1900 census of Lemhi County, Idaho. In 1910 they were in Sutter County, California and he was a stock raiser.
The Lemhi Herald, Aug 7, 1914:
MRS. GRAY L. PURCELL
Sad is the word received here of the death near Leadore July 29th of Mrs. Gray L. Purcell, one of the sweetest characters among pioneer women of the west. The funeral was held at Junction Friday the 31st, Rev. E.N. Quist officiating, and the attendance was great, in attestation of the popular esteem in which she was held.
Drusilla Winters Purcell was born in Indiana in 1843, and had passed her 71st birthday. She moved with her parents to Duquoin, Ill., in 1856, and came to Montana in 1874. In that year she was married to Mr. Purcell and they at once moved to Lemhi County, where they took up land in the upper Lemhi Valley, and engaged in the business of stock raising. They worked hard to build up a competence, and raised two children, Mark and Annie, both of whom are respected residents of the vicinity of their birth. The latter is now Mrs. George W. Yearian.
Mr. and Mrs. Purcell have lived in this county ever since they arrived in 1874, excepting, that for the last five years they have spent the winters in California. Death came to Mrs. Purcell at the home of their daughter. She leaves a devoted husband and both children, to grieve at her departure; besides there are two sisters, Mrs. C.C. Hawley of Clyde, Idaho, and Mrs. H.C. McCreery of Huntington Beach, California.
Mrs. Purcell was very well known and loved by all the old timers all over this county, and the sorrow of this hour is shared by a host of long-time acquaintances. The word of her death was brought down by Justice G.F. Yearian of Junction, who has known the Purcells ever since they arrived in the valley and settled on Texas Creek.
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