The Thursday, 26 January 1956, edition of the De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota, News carried the following obituary (page 1, column 6):
MRS. H.H. PLOWMAN, LONG RESIDENT, DIED SATURDAY
Death came to Mrs. H.H. Plowman [Cora Belknap Plowman] of [De Smet, SD] Saturday [21 January 1956] at a Lutheran home in Sioux Falls [SD], where she had been residing for some months. She had suffered a broken hip there last month. She was 83 years of age in December.
Funeral services were held here [De Smet] Tuesday [24 January 1956] at the Methodist church, the Rev. Harris Halstead conducting them. Burial was in the Oldham cemetery.
Mrs. Plowman had lived in De Smet since 1904, coming from the Oldham vicinity, where her parents [Mary Ann (Dykins) and George Belknap] had located in 1880 when she was eight years old. Mr. Plowman died in 1942 and she had continued her home here until failing eyesight brought her to enter the home in Sioux Falls last summer [1955]. Surviving is her son Lester, of Rapid City [SD].
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mae [sic] Regan and Mrs. Jennie Northrup, and a brother, Clyde Belknap, Spokane, Washington.
Pallbearers were E.F. Rushell, Glen Van Tassel, Karl Ziegler, Leon Carpenter, Fay Munger and Henry Hinz.
Cora Belknap was born at Auburn, Iowa, December 2, 1872. Her parents moved from Iowa to the Oldham vicinity. She was married to Harry H. Plowman of that vicinity in 1893.
Mrs. Plowman had long been a member of the local Methodist church and active in its organizations. Members of the Bible class she had attended sat in a group at the services. In recent years, with her failing eyesight, the pastor and several others had held weekly meetings for Bible study and prayer at her home.
MRS. H.H. PLOWMAN, LONG RESIDENT, DIED SATURDAY
Death came to Mrs. H.H. Plowman [Cora Belknap Plowman] of [De Smet, SD] Saturday [21 January 1956] at a Lutheran home in Sioux Falls [SD], where she had been residing for some months. She had suffered a broken hip there last month. She was 83 years of age in December.
Funeral services were held here [De Smet] Tuesday [24 January 1956] at the Methodist church, the Rev. Harris Halstead conducting them. Burial was in the Oldham cemetery.
Mrs. Plowman had lived in De Smet since 1904, coming from the Oldham vicinity, where her parents [Mary Ann (Dykins) and George Belknap] had located in 1880 when she was eight years old. Mr. Plowman died in 1942 and she had continued her home here until failing eyesight brought her to enter the home in Sioux Falls last summer [1955]. Surviving is her son Lester, of Rapid City [SD].
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mae [sic] Regan and Mrs. Jennie Northrup, and a brother, Clyde Belknap, Spokane, Washington.
Pallbearers were E.F. Rushell, Glen Van Tassel, Karl Ziegler, Leon Carpenter, Fay Munger and Henry Hinz.
Cora Belknap was born at Auburn, Iowa, December 2, 1872. Her parents moved from Iowa to the Oldham vicinity. She was married to Harry H. Plowman of that vicinity in 1893.
Mrs. Plowman had long been a member of the local Methodist church and active in its organizations. Members of the Bible class she had attended sat in a group at the services. In recent years, with her failing eyesight, the pastor and several others had held weekly meetings for Bible study and prayer at her home.
The Thursday, 26 January 1956, edition of the De Smet, Kingsbury County, South Dakota, News carried the following obituary (page 1, column 6):
MRS. H.H. PLOWMAN, LONG RESIDENT, DIED SATURDAY
Death came to Mrs. H.H. Plowman [Cora Belknap Plowman] of [De Smet, SD] Saturday [21 January 1956] at a Lutheran home in Sioux Falls [SD], where she had been residing for some months. She had suffered a broken hip there last month. She was 83 years of age in December.
Funeral services were held here [De Smet] Tuesday [24 January 1956] at the Methodist church, the Rev. Harris Halstead conducting them. Burial was in the Oldham cemetery.
Mrs. Plowman had lived in De Smet since 1904, coming from the Oldham vicinity, where her parents [Mary Ann (Dykins) and George Belknap] had located in 1880 when she was eight years old. Mr. Plowman died in 1942 and she had continued her home here until failing eyesight brought her to enter the home in Sioux Falls last summer [1955]. Surviving is her son Lester, of Rapid City [SD].
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mae [sic] Regan and Mrs. Jennie Northrup, and a brother, Clyde Belknap, Spokane, Washington.
Pallbearers were E.F. Rushell, Glen Van Tassel, Karl Ziegler, Leon Carpenter, Fay Munger and Henry Hinz.
Cora Belknap was born at Auburn, Iowa, December 2, 1872. Her parents moved from Iowa to the Oldham vicinity. She was married to Harry H. Plowman of that vicinity in 1893.
Mrs. Plowman had long been a member of the local Methodist church and active in its organizations. Members of the Bible class she had attended sat in a group at the services. In recent years, with her failing eyesight, the pastor and several others had held weekly meetings for Bible study and prayer at her home.
MRS. H.H. PLOWMAN, LONG RESIDENT, DIED SATURDAY
Death came to Mrs. H.H. Plowman [Cora Belknap Plowman] of [De Smet, SD] Saturday [21 January 1956] at a Lutheran home in Sioux Falls [SD], where she had been residing for some months. She had suffered a broken hip there last month. She was 83 years of age in December.
Funeral services were held here [De Smet] Tuesday [24 January 1956] at the Methodist church, the Rev. Harris Halstead conducting them. Burial was in the Oldham cemetery.
Mrs. Plowman had lived in De Smet since 1904, coming from the Oldham vicinity, where her parents [Mary Ann (Dykins) and George Belknap] had located in 1880 when she was eight years old. Mr. Plowman died in 1942 and she had continued her home here until failing eyesight brought her to enter the home in Sioux Falls last summer [1955]. Surviving is her son Lester, of Rapid City [SD].
She is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mae [sic] Regan and Mrs. Jennie Northrup, and a brother, Clyde Belknap, Spokane, Washington.
Pallbearers were E.F. Rushell, Glen Van Tassel, Karl Ziegler, Leon Carpenter, Fay Munger and Henry Hinz.
Cora Belknap was born at Auburn, Iowa, December 2, 1872. Her parents moved from Iowa to the Oldham vicinity. She was married to Harry H. Plowman of that vicinity in 1893.
Mrs. Plowman had long been a member of the local Methodist church and active in its organizations. Members of the Bible class she had attended sat in a group at the services. In recent years, with her failing eyesight, the pastor and several others had held weekly meetings for Bible study and prayer at her home.
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