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July 16, 1936
Sapulpa Herald
Creek Co. OK
MRS. JOSEPHINE ELDRIDGE DIES AT HOME TUESDAY
Mrs. Josephine Eldridge, age 86, mother of Ira F. Eldridge, died at her home 419
North Third street, at 9:45 Tuesday evening. She follows in death, her husband,
Floyd E. Eldridge, who died last February 11.
The deceased is survived by her son, Ira F., of Sapulpa, a brother of
Bellfontaine, Ohio, six grandchildren, three of them, Haskell, Vernon and Mrs.
Floyd Wright, of Sapulpa, a grandson in Jacksonville, Fla., another enroute to
Oakland, Calif., and a granddaughter of Douglas, Wyo.
The deceased was born in Arlington, Ohio, January 5, 1850. She left Ohio at the
age of 22 and came to Kansas to live with her sister, Mary Huff, later moving to
McAlester in 1877. Two years later she married Floyd E. Eldridge, February 12,
1879, in McAlester. After residing in Denison, Texas, some time, came to Sapulpa
in 1901.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. F. Graham at 4 o’clock Thursday
afternoon from the Lewis and Landrith Chapel. Interment was made in Sapulpa
Cemetery.
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