OBITUARY
Cynthia Ann Whitten
Cynthia Ann Dodd, daughter of Amriah and Amelia Dodd was born in Sullivan County, Indiana, February 6, 1848 and died at her home in Alma, Nebraska, September 16, 1943, at the age of 94 years, 7 months and 10 days.
When she was a small child, she with her parents moved to Centerville, Iowa, making the trip in a covered wagon drawn by oxen. After a few years, they moved to Peru, Nebraska. When she was six years old, her mother died. Though a small child, she remembered her mother and often spoke of the great loss she had sustained.
She was united in marriage to Jacob F. Whitten on December18, 1863, at Nebraska City, Nebraska, where they made their home for many years, enduring the hardships and trials of the early pioneers.
To this union ten children were born. Her husband and two daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Doman and Mrs. Clara Abker preceded her in death.
In 1898, she with her family moved to a farm north of Phillipsburg, Kansas and later moved to Alma, Nebraska. When a young woman, she united with the Congregational Church, retaining her membership at the time of her death.
Those who survive are her four sons, Ephraim, Merritt, and Ira Whitten of Phillipsburg, Kansas and Levi Whitten of Alma, Nebraska; four daughters, Mrs. Mercy Hanson of Colorado Springs, Colo.,Mrs. Ida Daggett, Mrs. Rachel Gipe and Mrs. Burdell Mitchell of Lincoln, Nebraska; twenty-one grandchildren, twenty-seven great grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
Interment was in the Iowa Union cemetery, south of Alma, Friday, September 18th at 2:00 p.m. Rev. M.S. Hoffsommer, pastor of the Congregational church was in charge of the services, held from the Zulauf Chapel.
(Harlan County Journal, Alma, Nebraska, 23 September 1942)