Pittman - Catherine Furry
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, January 29, 1908
Catherine Ann Pittman, the wife of William Pittman, died at her home at Yountsville, at 3:45 o'clock Monday afternoon. Mrs. Pittman was the daughter of David M. Farry and Ruth McArey, and was in her sixty-ninth year at the time of her death. The funeral will occur from the family residence at half-past nine Thursday morning. The interment will be at Oak Hill cemetery. -- thanks to Kim H
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Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, January 30, 1908
Catherine A. Pittman, wife of William Pittman, departed this life, January 28, 1908, at her home in Yountsville, Ind., at the age of sixty-eight years. Her maiden name was Catherine A. Furry. She was born in Highland county, Ohio, and moved with her parents to Tipton county, Indiana about the year 1860. She had six brothers and two sisters, only two of whom survive - Mrs. Mary E. Taylor of Cicero, Ind., and Henry Furry of Oakland, Cal. She was married November 9, 1865, to William Pittman at Cassville, Howard county, Indiana. She was the mother of seven children, four of whom, Oliver, Lizzie, Ruth and Kittie, with the husband, remain to mourn her loss. Two died in childhood, and Eva, the youngest, eight months ago. She was converted and joined the M.E. church in early girlhood in Ohio, under the ministrations of that old pioneer Methodist preacher, Elder Trumball, and remained a consistent Christian to her death. She had passed through some of the most bitter experiences and severest trials allotted to human beings. Five of her brothers were in the union army during the rebellion, four of them dying far from home in the service, and one at home from disease contracted in the army. Besides her two brothers-in-laws were in the army and died shortly after coming home of disease contracted in the service. Her parents both preceded her to that better land many years ago. Only a few years since she was deprived of an eye after months of suffering, by the same relentless malady that destroyed her life. She never made an enemy and never turned a human being hungry from her door. No better mother, wife or neighbor ever lived. She kissed her family a last good-bye and passed away without a murmur of struggle as if going into a gentle sleep. The funeral service was conducted at Yountsville M.E. church, January 30, by the pastor, Rev. O. Tevis Martin. Interment at Oak Hill, Crawfordsville. -- thanks to Kim H