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Margaret Elizabeth “Betsy” Adkins McKenzie

Birth
Scott County, Kentucky, USA
Death
29 Nov 1903 (aged 74)
Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Charleston Township, Coles County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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No marker has been located for Margaret, but her husband's marker is just one row east of Margaret's parents' markers, James & Margaret (Neal) Adkins. It can only be speculated that she rests in an unmarked grave near all three of them. She was the wife of James W. McKenzie, married 11 February 1853, Coles County, IL

DIED SUNDAY
"Aunt" Betsy McKenzie Falls a Victim to Paralysis
"Aunt Betsy McKenzie, aged about seventy-four years, died at seven o'clock Sunday morning at the home of Riley Rennels, 905 Division street, where she resided, Mrs. Rennels being her niece.

Death was due to paralysis which she had been a sufferer for five or six weeks.

The funeral services were held at ten o'clock this morning, from the South Christian church, conducted by Rev. O. B. Huston. The burial took place in the Adkins/Woodson graveyard.

Mrs. McKenzie was an old resident of the county and had resided in this city for upwards of twenty years. She was a most excellent and worthy woman in every way and was widely known and greatly beloved by relatives and friends.

She leaves three grown children, two daughters and a son, and wide circle of relatives to mourn her loss.

Charleston Daily Courier
Charleston, IL
Monday, November 30, 1903
No marker has been located for Margaret, but her husband's marker is just one row east of Margaret's parents' markers, James & Margaret (Neal) Adkins. It can only be speculated that she rests in an unmarked grave near all three of them. She was the wife of James W. McKenzie, married 11 February 1853, Coles County, IL

DIED SUNDAY
"Aunt" Betsy McKenzie Falls a Victim to Paralysis
"Aunt Betsy McKenzie, aged about seventy-four years, died at seven o'clock Sunday morning at the home of Riley Rennels, 905 Division street, where she resided, Mrs. Rennels being her niece.

Death was due to paralysis which she had been a sufferer for five or six weeks.

The funeral services were held at ten o'clock this morning, from the South Christian church, conducted by Rev. O. B. Huston. The burial took place in the Adkins/Woodson graveyard.

Mrs. McKenzie was an old resident of the county and had resided in this city for upwards of twenty years. She was a most excellent and worthy woman in every way and was widely known and greatly beloved by relatives and friends.

She leaves three grown children, two daughters and a son, and wide circle of relatives to mourn her loss.

Charleston Daily Courier
Charleston, IL
Monday, November 30, 1903

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