Person:Adeline Ouderkirk (1)

Obituary:

Galesburg Daily Register Mail

May 4, 1928

(Does not include pallbearers or guests, very long list.)

Impressive funeral services for Mrs. Addie Housh were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elias Hughs on North street at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in charge of C.F. Shoemaker, of Galesburg.

Burial was made in the family lot in the Maquon cemetery.

Addie Ouderkirk, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Ouderkirk, was born in Onondago county, New York, February 28, 1835, and passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Hurd, in LaMoille, Ill., April 28, 1928 at age of 93 years and 2 months. .....her twin sister came with the parents from New York to Schuyler county, making the trip in a wagon, where they lived about two years, then came to Maquon and lived on the farm owned by their parents one-half mile west of Maquon, for fifteen years.

In November, 1857, she was united in marriage with A.C. Housh and to this union two children were born, E.L. Housh, of Baltimore, Maryland, and Mrs. Emma Hurd, of LaMoille, Ill. With the exception of one and a half years Mr. and Mrs. Housh lived their entire married life in Maquon.

The twin sister, Mrs. Carrie Jones, departed this life January 16, 1923, and the husband passed away February 13, 1923. Since the death of the husband, Mrs. Housh has made her home with her daughter in LaMoille.

Besides the two children she leaves four grandchildren, namely, Carter and Chester Housh, Mrs. O.C. Baily, and Jay Hurd; also great- grandchildren including, Virginia, Richard and David Baily, and David, Barbara Bell and C.C. Housh.

1. ↑ Portrait and Biographical Album of Knox Co., Chapman Bros., 1886.
2. ↑ Comp. by Knox Co. Genealogical Society, Galesburg, IL. Cemetery Records, Knox County, IL,, Haw Creek Twp.