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Matilda Jane <I>Miles</I> Cody

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Matilda Jane Miles Cody

Birth
Saline County, Missouri, USA
Death
3 Sep 1940 (aged 73)
Kirksville, Adair County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Brashear, Adair County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Oakwood Addition Row 8 Lot 235
Memorial ID
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Married William Henry Cody on 01 Aug 1888 at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri.
MO d/c 27804
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)

MRS. MATILDA CODY DIES AT HOME HERE
Funeral Thursday At Gibbs; Burial At Brashear.

Mrs. Matilda Cody died at her home, 407 South Elson street, yesterday evening at 6:15. She had been in failing health for the past two years and seriously ill the past three weeks with a glandular trouble. She was the daughter of Frank and Lucy Chin Miles, and was born in Saline County, Missouri, July 21, 1867. She moved with her parents to a farm near La Plata when 15 years of age. She has lived continuously since in northern Macon and Adair counties.
She was married Aug. 1, 1888, to William H. Cody. Five children were born to this marriage, one son dying In infancy. Surviving are Mrs. Susie Mitchell, Mrs. June McClarahan, Warren and William Cody, all of Kirksville. There are seven grandchildren, four brothers, William Miles of La Plata, S. A. Miles, Pueblo, Colo., Cody Miles, Waco, Texas, and Glenn Miles, Cunningham, Kan.
Her husband died April 17, 1928. Mrs. Cody moved to Gibbs with her husband in March, 1922. She was telephone operator there for fourteen years. She moved with her daughter, Mrs. Susie Mitchell, to Kirksville in April 1925. She was a member of the Gibbs Christian Church, uniting with the church in 1934, under the ministry of the Rev. George Kitchen.
Funeral services will be held at the Gibbs Christian Church Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. J. L. Shoemaker, of Shelbina. Burial will be in Brashear Cemetery. Members of her family will act as pallbearers, and her granddaughters as flower girls. The body will lie in state at the family home here until time for the funeral service.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 04 Sep 1940, Wed • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)
Married William Henry Cody on 01 Aug 1888 at La Plata, Macon County, Missouri.
MO d/c 27804
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)

MRS. MATILDA CODY DIES AT HOME HERE
Funeral Thursday At Gibbs; Burial At Brashear.

Mrs. Matilda Cody died at her home, 407 South Elson street, yesterday evening at 6:15. She had been in failing health for the past two years and seriously ill the past three weeks with a glandular trouble. She was the daughter of Frank and Lucy Chin Miles, and was born in Saline County, Missouri, July 21, 1867. She moved with her parents to a farm near La Plata when 15 years of age. She has lived continuously since in northern Macon and Adair counties.
She was married Aug. 1, 1888, to William H. Cody. Five children were born to this marriage, one son dying In infancy. Surviving are Mrs. Susie Mitchell, Mrs. June McClarahan, Warren and William Cody, all of Kirksville. There are seven grandchildren, four brothers, William Miles of La Plata, S. A. Miles, Pueblo, Colo., Cody Miles, Waco, Texas, and Glenn Miles, Cunningham, Kan.
Her husband died April 17, 1928. Mrs. Cody moved to Gibbs with her husband in March, 1922. She was telephone operator there for fourteen years. She moved with her daughter, Mrs. Susie Mitchell, to Kirksville in April 1925. She was a member of the Gibbs Christian Church, uniting with the church in 1934, under the ministry of the Rev. George Kitchen.
Funeral services will be held at the Gibbs Christian Church Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. J. L. Shoemaker, of Shelbina. Burial will be in Brashear Cemetery. Members of her family will act as pallbearers, and her granddaughters as flower girls. The body will lie in state at the family home here until time for the funeral service.
Kirksville Daily Express and Kirksville Daily News, Kirksville, Missouri, 04 Sep 1940, Wed • Page 1, Column 1
(Contributed by Pam Witherow)


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