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Kansas Family Groupsheet for Daniel KESTER Family
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Submitted by: Jo Kester
Email address: jo.kester@comcast.net
Husband: Daniel KESTER
Birthdate: April 14, 1822
Birthplace: Montgomery Co, OH
Death date: November 03, 1889
Place of death: Winchester, Randolph, IN
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Mother:
Marriage date: January 22, 1878
Marriage place: Randolph Co, IN
Wife: Mary E. DAVIDSON
Birthdate: January 22, 1824
Birthplace: Darke Co, OH
Death date: October 22, 1893
Place of death: Wichita, Sedgwicke, KS
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Documentation: Obituary 8 Nov 1893 Winchester, Randolph, IN
newspaper
Death of Mary E. Kester
Mary E. Kester was born January 22,1824. and died of malarial fever after
an illness of two weeks, at the home of her son in Wichita, Kansas,
October 22,1893. She leaves two children, E.L. McClure and Mrs. Jennie
Ferris, both of Wichita. Her maiden name was Davidson. Her early
childhood and until her marriage to Dr. S. M. McClure in 1819, was spent
with her parents on a farm in Darke county, Ohio near where Wiley's
Station now is located. After her marriage to Dr. McClure they moved to
the southern .part of Indiana where they were living at the beginning of
the War. After her husband's enlistment, and while he was yet in the
service,' she, with her two children, moved back to Ohio residing at New
Paris until her husband's return from the Army, when they moved to
Winchester, Indiana, where they lived at the time of the doctor's death
in 1873. In 1878 she was married to Daniel Kester, of Palestine, Ohio.
After a stay of a -few years in Palestine, they came to Winchester where
Mr. Kester died In 1889. After his death she went West with her son. She
united with the church when eighteen years old, and atthe time of her
death she ;was a member of the Firsf Presbyterian Ccchurch of Wichita,
she having transferred her membership from the ME Ccchurch of Winchester.
Her body was brought to Winchester for interment. After funeral
services, which were held at the home of her friend, Mrs. Edward Edgar and
conducted by L. J. Naftzer of Richmond, an old friend of the family,
assisted by Rev J. B. Fowler of Winchester, she was laid to rest in the
family plot in Fountain Park Cemetery. Thus ends the life of one who
had almost finished her three score and ten and who was fully ready and
waiting to hear the summons of her Master, "Enter thou into the joys of
thy Lord".
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