While at home alone last Friday morning, Mrs. G. L. Bloodgood for twenty seven years a resident of Villisca, was stricken with apoplexy about 10 o'clock from the effects of which she died Saturday morning at 2:30 o'clock.
When her husband arrived home at his usual dinner hour at 11 o'clock that day, he found Mrs. Bloodgood on the floor in the bedroom, sitting with her back against the bed where she had crawled after falling to the floor. She was in a semiconscious condition and said she had been sitting there for about an hour.
Mrs. Bloodgood was placed on the bed and given medical attention, but all efforts to restore her to health proved to no via and she died within a few hours after she was stricken.
Sarah Ellen Akers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Akers, was born April 19, 1855 in the state of Indiana and came with her parents to Iowa when she was about three years of age, locating at Delhl in Delaware County. There at the age of twenty two years she was united in marriage with George Leonard Bloodgood, and they lived there for several years going later to Nebraska and 27 years ago they came to Villisca where they have made their home since that time.
To this union seven children were born, two of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Bessie Graham, Morgan, Utah; Howard Bloodgood, Petersburg, Nebraska; Mrs. Bertha Stants, Des Moines, Iowa; Miss Mary Bloodgood, Villisca; and Guy Bloodgood, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Besides the husband and children, there remain also 2 brothers, Frank Akers of Naponee, Nebraska and E. N. Akers, Manchester, Iowa.
Mrs. Bloodgood was a member of the Methodist Church, but during recent years had attended the Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the John A. Logan circle for many years, serving for two years as its president.
The funeral was held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Dr. A. P. Walton in charge of the service. The ritual of the John A. Logan circle was read at the grave, with burial being made in the Villisca Cemetery.
Villisca Review, Friday, September 22, 1922, page 1
When her husband arrived home at his usual dinner hour at 11 o'clock that day, he found Mrs. Bloodgood on the floor in the bedroom, sitting with her back against the bed where she had crawled after falling to the floor. She was in a semiconscious condition and said she had been sitting there for about an hour.
Mrs. Bloodgood was placed on the bed and given medical attention, but all efforts to restore her to health proved to no via and she died within a few hours after she was stricken.
Sarah Ellen Akers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Akers, was born April 19, 1855 in the state of Indiana and came with her parents to Iowa when she was about three years of age, locating at Delhl in Delaware County. There at the age of twenty two years she was united in marriage with George Leonard Bloodgood, and they lived there for several years going later to Nebraska and 27 years ago they came to Villisca where they have made their home since that time.
To this union seven children were born, two of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Bessie Graham, Morgan, Utah; Howard Bloodgood, Petersburg, Nebraska; Mrs. Bertha Stants, Des Moines, Iowa; Miss Mary Bloodgood, Villisca; and Guy Bloodgood, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Besides the husband and children, there remain also 2 brothers, Frank Akers of Naponee, Nebraska and E. N. Akers, Manchester, Iowa.
Mrs. Bloodgood was a member of the Methodist Church, but during recent years had attended the Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the John A. Logan circle for many years, serving for two years as its president.
The funeral was held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Dr. A. P. Walton in charge of the service. The ritual of the John A. Logan circle was read at the grave, with burial being made in the Villisca Cemetery.
Villisca Review, Friday, September 22, 1922, page 1
While at home alone last Friday morning, Mrs. G. L. Bloodgood for twenty seven years a resident of Villisca, was stricken with apoplexy about 10 o'clock from the effects of which she died Saturday morning at 2:30 o'clock.
When her husband arrived home at his usual dinner hour at 11 o'clock that day, he found Mrs. Bloodgood on the floor in the bedroom, sitting with her back against the bed where she had crawled after falling to the floor. She was in a semiconscious condition and said she had been sitting there for about an hour.
Mrs. Bloodgood was placed on the bed and given medical attention, but all efforts to restore her to health proved to no via and she died within a few hours after she was stricken.
Sarah Ellen Akers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Akers, was born April 19, 1855 in the state of Indiana and came with her parents to Iowa when she was about three years of age, locating at Delhl in Delaware County. There at the age of twenty two years she was united in marriage with George Leonard Bloodgood, and they lived there for several years going later to Nebraska and 27 years ago they came to Villisca where they have made their home since that time.
To this union seven children were born, two of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Bessie Graham, Morgan, Utah; Howard Bloodgood, Petersburg, Nebraska; Mrs. Bertha Stants, Des Moines, Iowa; Miss Mary Bloodgood, Villisca; and Guy Bloodgood, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Besides the husband and children, there remain also 2 brothers, Frank Akers of Naponee, Nebraska and E. N. Akers, Manchester, Iowa.
Mrs. Bloodgood was a member of the Methodist Church, but during recent years had attended the Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the John A. Logan circle for many years, serving for two years as its president.
The funeral was held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Dr. A. P. Walton in charge of the service. The ritual of the John A. Logan circle was read at the grave, with burial being made in the Villisca Cemetery.
Villisca Review, Friday, September 22, 1922, page 1
When her husband arrived home at his usual dinner hour at 11 o'clock that day, he found Mrs. Bloodgood on the floor in the bedroom, sitting with her back against the bed where she had crawled after falling to the floor. She was in a semiconscious condition and said she had been sitting there for about an hour.
Mrs. Bloodgood was placed on the bed and given medical attention, but all efforts to restore her to health proved to no via and she died within a few hours after she was stricken.
Sarah Ellen Akers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas Akers, was born April 19, 1855 in the state of Indiana and came with her parents to Iowa when she was about three years of age, locating at Delhl in Delaware County. There at the age of twenty two years she was united in marriage with George Leonard Bloodgood, and they lived there for several years going later to Nebraska and 27 years ago they came to Villisca where they have made their home since that time.
To this union seven children were born, two of whom died in infancy. Those surviving are Mrs. Bessie Graham, Morgan, Utah; Howard Bloodgood, Petersburg, Nebraska; Mrs. Bertha Stants, Des Moines, Iowa; Miss Mary Bloodgood, Villisca; and Guy Bloodgood, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Besides the husband and children, there remain also 2 brothers, Frank Akers of Naponee, Nebraska and E. N. Akers, Manchester, Iowa.
Mrs. Bloodgood was a member of the Methodist Church, but during recent years had attended the Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the John A. Logan circle for many years, serving for two years as its president.
The funeral was held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Dr. A. P. Walton in charge of the service. The ritual of the John A. Logan circle was read at the grave, with burial being made in the Villisca Cemetery.
Villisca Review, Friday, September 22, 1922, page 1
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