Catherine J. Amon was born in Mercer County, Pa., in 1844 and died at her home in Chester, Nebraska, August 13, 1918. She grew to womanhood in the county and state where she was born.
August 31, 1864, she was united in marriage with Daniel F. Swaney. To this union was born nine children, three daughters and six sons, four of whom, L. I. Swaney of Republic, Kan., John Edgar of Fairbury and Carleton and Clinton of near Chester, with the husband and father, survive her.
In the year of 1878, she with her husband, came west to what was then plains, settling 3 1/2 miles west of Chester, on the Kansas side, where they homesteaded and where they lived until 1904, when they retired from the farm and moved to Chester. For the past several years she has been in failing health, and this, coupled with her recent critical illness, proved too much for the frail and already overtaxed body, and she passed to her heavenly estate on the morning above stated, aged 74 years, 1 month and 10 days.
She was a kind and noble woman, affectionate to the family, a good wife and a beautiful christian character, holding her church membership with the Christian Church of Chester.
Funeral services were held from the church last Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in Chester Cemetery.
August 31, 1864, she was united in marriage with Daniel F. Swaney. To this union was born nine children, three daughters and six sons, four of whom, L. I. Swaney of Republic, Kan., John Edgar of Fairbury and Carleton and Clinton of near Chester, with the husband and father, survive her.
In the year of 1878, she with her husband, came west to what was then plains, settling 3 1/2 miles west of Chester, on the Kansas side, where they homesteaded and where they lived until 1904, when they retired from the farm and moved to Chester. For the past several years she has been in failing health, and this, coupled with her recent critical illness, proved too much for the frail and already overtaxed body, and she passed to her heavenly estate on the morning above stated, aged 74 years, 1 month and 10 days.
She was a kind and noble woman, affectionate to the family, a good wife and a beautiful christian character, holding her church membership with the Christian Church of Chester.
Funeral services were held from the church last Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in Chester Cemetery.
Catherine J. Amon was born in Mercer County, Pa., in 1844 and died at her home in Chester, Nebraska, August 13, 1918. She grew to womanhood in the county and state where she was born.
August 31, 1864, she was united in marriage with Daniel F. Swaney. To this union was born nine children, three daughters and six sons, four of whom, L. I. Swaney of Republic, Kan., John Edgar of Fairbury and Carleton and Clinton of near Chester, with the husband and father, survive her.
In the year of 1878, she with her husband, came west to what was then plains, settling 3 1/2 miles west of Chester, on the Kansas side, where they homesteaded and where they lived until 1904, when they retired from the farm and moved to Chester. For the past several years she has been in failing health, and this, coupled with her recent critical illness, proved too much for the frail and already overtaxed body, and she passed to her heavenly estate on the morning above stated, aged 74 years, 1 month and 10 days.
She was a kind and noble woman, affectionate to the family, a good wife and a beautiful christian character, holding her church membership with the Christian Church of Chester.
Funeral services were held from the church last Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in Chester Cemetery.
August 31, 1864, she was united in marriage with Daniel F. Swaney. To this union was born nine children, three daughters and six sons, four of whom, L. I. Swaney of Republic, Kan., John Edgar of Fairbury and Carleton and Clinton of near Chester, with the husband and father, survive her.
In the year of 1878, she with her husband, came west to what was then plains, settling 3 1/2 miles west of Chester, on the Kansas side, where they homesteaded and where they lived until 1904, when they retired from the farm and moved to Chester. For the past several years she has been in failing health, and this, coupled with her recent critical illness, proved too much for the frail and already overtaxed body, and she passed to her heavenly estate on the morning above stated, aged 74 years, 1 month and 10 days.
She was a kind and noble woman, affectionate to the family, a good wife and a beautiful christian character, holding her church membership with the Christian Church of Chester.
Funeral services were held from the church last Thursday afternoon. Interment was made in Chester Cemetery.
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